I would assume the authorities know all this, but consider the economic damage from closing offices too high.
In my humble view this is the wrong decision, will not lead to zero covid and probably have higher economic costs than decisive action, but it is what it is
Well if they watched what happened in the rest of the world, they’d know the inevitable next chapter in this story. The virus got in and it’s spreading rapidly. Hospitals are filling up and people are already dying.
They can’t save the economy but they might be able to save some lives.
I know several diplomats and I have to respectfully disagree, he was protecting America’s interest by being open and honest. If he said something that was interpreted by the media as affirmation that the US would be sending vaccines to Taiwan, when they didn’t actually arrive, because they are needed more else where, all of you that are mad about how he answered, would be even angrier at him for not delivering.
It’s a darned if you do, darned if you don’t situation since no one here is being reasonable and honestly looking at the situation of Taiwan versus all of the US’s other allies.
That’s what really gets me about the situation now, actually. The CDC clearly has many educated, competent people in it, and did a fantastic job for over a year. I’m curious as to where the disconnect was with the situation now. I don’t believe that with their track record it’s entirely on the CDC. Was it higher-up politicians outside of the CDC? Pride? Lack of funding? Or maybe I’m giving Chen too much credit and they’ve been completely blindsided by this. Someone posted a couple days ago about China Airlines (?) putting pressure on the CDC to shorten pilot quarantine, which makes me wonder if there was some other pressure keeping them from properly preparing for this eventuality.
I am incredibly thankful they did as good of a job as they did and I got to spend my last year in Taiwan living life normally. Damn shame that all the hard work they did and good press they got is going down the drain now.
The current backlogs are adding 150 to 250 to the initial count of each day. To be precise, the final count of a particular day seems to be around 150-250 more than what was announced on that day.
Although TPR has decreased a bit, the backlogs have only increased from May 20 (~30k) to May 27 (~45k). So we can expect today’s real count to be around 600 at least. Should be a new
(raw count) peak quite easily.
If the current backlog adds 150 each day, and the delay is as far back as 9 days, won’t that add 1350 to today’s count? Guess we’ll find out in 10 days.
Probably giving Chen too much credit, and not realizing how controversial his decision to split up families is. He barred a very young child of PRC and ROC parents from entering Taiwan for political gain.
And yes, 范雲 (allegedly) pressure to make pilot quarantine from 5 days to 3 days.