… and furthermore a 2 month Level 3 is not really a 2 month Level 3, but probably a 4-6 month Level 3 which makes it even worse
It’s a common laowai observation that Taiwanese people are pretty good at dealing with routine stuff, but astoundingly bad at thinking outside the box.
Do you really think it’s likely that Taiwan is going to come up with “something” to get the numbers down, while everyone else on the planet failed to do so - or at least failed to do so without paying a terrible cost in ruined lives?
Could we not at least consider the possibility that nothing can be done about infection in general terms, but we probably can do an awful lot to prevent people dying?
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Pretty cool covid cases map of Taiwan
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Same. Full on 100 minute wait though they did have a decent number of windows open. I was surprised that it was business as usual.
A woman wearing gloves and a full face shield sat down in the chair at the counter before I could pull my notebook off the desk.- social distancing isn’t a thing.
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Gov’t offices are open as usual during Level 3.
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I split posts to a thread for discussion focused on this issue
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Time for panic buyers to come out of their homes.
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Man why do they have to do this. There’s already people coming down here to evade level 4 up there, this will just scare more down here. 
Important information for ARC holders:
Got a one month extension
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How many of them will want to renew?
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The mayor told reporters he never expected the pandemic to develop to a point where Taiwan confirmed 200 to 300 new COVID cases per day.
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Sigh.
Maybe he shouldn’t be complaining about the US not sending as many vaccines as he had anticipated. It looks like convenience is taken for granted.
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I guess it was good while it lasted
Just using the USA stats to indicate what may happen in Taiwan
USA population some 330 million
In the time since COVID was discovered about 33 million were infected that’s about ten pct
And over 500k died
That’s around zero point one five pct
Taiwan has some 23 million people and if ten pct were confirmed infected that would be two point three million
And if zero point one five pct were to die that would be about 35000 people
Not an insignificant amount
The problem is spacing out the infections enough so that the hospitals are not jammed
The USA shut down all indoor venues except grocery stores and a few big box stores like Walmart and target
Everyone who was not front line lost their jobs and were ordered to say home and avoid friends and family
So it was pretty draconian
Even walking outside for exercise people often cross the street so as to avoid one another
Our cities became ghost towns and many hospital emergency wards were swamped
Daily deaths exceeded 1000 around the country at some points
Things only got better with mass vaccinations
And now fifty pct of the US population have gotten at least one jab
Taiwan being so densely populated could experience a huge surge of patients and could them expect emergency room chaos
This is a potential major emergency
But everyone should do their best to avoid others snd wear masks and get the vaccine when able
And don’t panic the kill ratio is only zero point one five pct about which is ten times higher than the flu
But most everyone will not even get infected or will even know they were infected
Don’t panic
Be sensible and be calm and it’s going to work out
Restaurants should go to take out mode only and many will close
The govt will have to pay people to stay home
There was a saying here that in grandpas days the govt called you to war and to possibly die for your country. Now you are only called to stay on your couch
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Looking at these map is interesting.
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Things are definitely on the upswing though
The country is coming back to life
Airports are jammed
Movie houses and gyms open to reduced capacity
Many places are allowing those vaccinated to go without masks indoors
Indoor dining allowed to fifty pct Starbucks and McDonald
Starting to allow indoor seating in some areas
We are seeing the light at the end of this long tunnel
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That means going to a hospital for a medical. Hard pass.
Yes stay away from hospitals unless necessary
Our docs still don’t want to see you if they can face time you
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I don’t say it is a bad thing, but it’s not really backed by numbers: 3 to 4 times more cases per day compared to Taiwan. But USA is big, would need to look at states one by one to compare to a small country the size of Taiwan.