Coronavirus - Taiwan 2021

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One of three people confirmed Wednesday as new domestic COVID-19 cases had visited several places in Taoyuan, including a community center, dance hall and elementary school, before he tested positive for the disease

I’m starting to feel like my life is quite dull whenever I read these contact tracing reports.

It might be quite cool to catch it actually - I’m always thinking I should get out more and spend less time working, and one of the symptoms of coronavirus seems to be an irrepressible urge to do that. :man_dancing: :bullettrain_front: :airplane:

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Any indication why they are reporting antibody tests in this cluster as opposed to the usual PCR tests? Seems like they think they were infected some time ago and are now backtracing the outbreak.

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They will be heroes. They got the whole school off for two weeks.

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That’s a very good question.

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That’s Jinshing elementary where my nieces go.

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So Taiwan News misnamed the school?

Or there are now three schools?

The puzzle continues!

Guy

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Let’s see:

One school in Taoyuan where the guy went to exercise

One school in Taoyuan where a pilot’s kid went

Kanchiao school in New Taipei with two kids with antibodies

This looks sort of right, maybe? To be confirmed. CECC IMHO has the last word.

I was a bit confused on whose wife and whose kid had been infected as per yesterday’s news. Luckily CNA/Focus Taiwan has a very helpful chart.

And let’s not forget we got 65 college kids locked in their dorms due to the Mosque/pilot connection.

To think this all started with a pilot tested in Australia…

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The exercise guy is not related to the pilots. Bad all round here! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

The Taiwanese man in his 70s, who has no recent travel history, was likely infected by his brother or his sister-in-law, who both returned from a trip to Canada on April 9, the CECC said.

The man dropped off food for the couple while they were in home quarantine, and on one such occasion, he stayed for about 30 minutes, as his brother had suffered a fall and he had tried to help him, the CECC said.

The man’s brother tested positive for COVID-19 on April 14, while the man’s sister-in-law tested positive on Tuesday, after which the man was tested, and he was confirmed Wednesday to have contracted the disease, the CECC said.

Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at a press briefing Wednesday that the man should have reported his half-an-hour stay at his brother’s apartment, as people in home quarantine are not allowed to have visitors.

And there’s more:

Prior to testing positive, the 70-year-old man had visited several public places in Taoyuan, according to the CECC.

On April 20, he attended a dance class from 1:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Beixing community center on Jinling Road, and he ate at a noodle restaurant called Too Lazy to Cook on the same street, at around 4 p.m., the CECC said.

He later went to Amanda Dance Hall on Xinsheng Road, where he danced from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., the CECC said. On April 21, he attended a class for seniors at Jong Bu Elementary, on Yong’an Road, in a room that is reserved specifically for that purpose, the CECC said.

According to Chen, the CECC has identified 190 people who had contact with the man, and they have been asked to quarantine at home for 14 days.

Others who had been to these locations should follow self-health management protocols, and they are advised to get tested immediately if they develop COVID-19 symptoms, Chen said.

Source (also linked above): https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202104280020

Guy

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That’s what I’ve been trying to say!

The Kangchiao kids in Linkou are family of the pilots/air crew.

They were / are asymptomatic and were tested because they were in close contact with the infected.

What they found were antibodies. They caught it, recovered, and now have antibodies. However, they are still mildly contagious. The school closed to monitor the situation without exposing more kids. Will see over the next 2 weeks if any kids become symptomatic.

The frightening fact is most kids are asymptomatic so nobody will really know if any other kids caught it until they start spreading it to adults.

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And a lot of those dipshit kids always walk around and play with their masks off like they are the cool cats of the school. Rich kids will spread it everywhere because they just don’t care about others.

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That’s what I was thinking that they don’t prefer the AZ vax because they are giving away the entire AZ supply

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The US has not even approved AZ.

They booted AZ out of a mixed-use factory when the workers mixed it up with J&J, leading to huge waste.

Yup it’s time to give these puppies away!

Guy

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Taiwan needs mass vaccination because it can’t hold off the virus forever

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I’m pretty sure I’m right. I’ll get the missus to confirm later.

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Zapman- What a huge sweeping unfair generalization

All rich kids will act like …

So all black people will act like this, all women like this, all poor kids like that…

Wow- just wow.

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It’s quite fair and quite realistic. There are those of us that witness it daily…every minute of every hour of every school day.

Of course not ”every” kid, but definitely enough to make it extremely worrisome.

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So why is nobody testing the pilots at EVA Air? Does not require a rocket scientist to come up with the hypothesis that if pilots at China Airlines are an endangered species, then the same might apply to other airlines

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Yep…infected during a pandemic and they just have to go on tour! Dance halls? Dance halls?

We will call this one, Dancing Homer!

Dancing Homer

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All pilot’s have been given PCR tests since last week. Check CECC news.

CAL have been given not only PCR but also antibodies test. That is how they found 6 new cases 2 days ago.

This is the Kanchiao report by CNA. It gets a bit mixed with Taoyuan situation at the end.

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The fact that multiple pilots’ families got infected tells us that the previous (5 days) and current (3 days) quarantine periods for flight chew are too short.