Oh fuck no. They do absolutely nothing except destroy the economy.
Compare Belgium (lockdowns) to Sweden (no lockdowns, do whatever you want, just try to protect yourself especially if you’re old). Belgium did worse both medically and economically.
If you want people to welcome Chairman Xi’s benevolent rule, just get the KMT to run wild with its authoritarian fantasy lockdowns.
A new question that caught my attention yesterday: Does 侯友宜 (New Taipei City Mayor Hou, You-yi) play any role in substate action against Taiwan pandemic defense?
When Hou advocated for locked-down, I thought it was a only a haste opinion of his. When Hou advocated for 方艙 (infection concentration ward, Communist style), I thought it was a only a thoughtless opinion of his.
Then when yesterday he joined other KMT elites to demand Tsai administration to import China-made vaccine, I revaluate my neutral view about this ‘popular’ KMT politician with great suspicion.
Citywide locked-down, Commi-style infection ward, and China-made vaccine, Hou has turned up his vocal boomer for those three substate actions. Does that mean the United Front finally turn on an extremely valuable dormant agent?
I thought so as well before. I was relaying the the criticisms and suspicions he attracts over Facebook pages. How used to be shielded from that kind of scrutiny.
This round started with the breakout of China Airline cluster. By far 6 individuals that spread mis-information violating epidemic prevention laws have been caught and is under prosecution investigation.
Hualien, a stronghold of Deep Blue and gansta mayorship, sees 5 persons sent by the police to the prosecutor for spreading mis-information. reported by Liberty Times 自由時報
One 80+ year old elder is among the five suspects. He is not the original source of the mis-information, but Hualien police warns that relaying mis-information could still get you into trouble with the laws.
The woman refused to put on mask because she is an ROC-Chinese 中華民國人 not Taiwanese 台灣人. Her spoken mandarin has mainlander accent. Many mainlander Chineses are feeling resentful that they must follow regulations enacted by Taiwanese administration. The mainlander Chinese used to be an elite class above the laws. No wonder a strong wish for Chinese Communist invasion is present among this class of old elites.
Hou has one full year to do zero preparation, and today the epicenter Zhonghe 中和 still has no site to test Covid. Zhonhe residents should seriously reflect upon their votes for KMT.
壽德新村 (Shou-De community) where Han Gouyu 韓國瑜 grew up. It is one of ‘KMT-police-state’-sponsored residential projects for the military. Taiwanese administration’s epidemic prevention measures mean shit to those Chinese elites.
Hou Youyi threatened to lockdown New Taipei City. As a consequence, there were panic shoppings, which caused 全聯 PXMart to turn into infectious clusters.
As Modena vaccine is going to arrive in Taiwan around July, Chinese Nationalists have a different kind of panic shopping in their mind: vaccine made-in-China.