Taiwan is small but 23 million people puts
It on par with many countries
I donāt see a Level 4 lockdown drill as something that bad. It hopefully means a real one is coming, which is needed I think. In fact, Ko is the only one keeping it semi-real. With his sober analysis mixed with occasional panicked lapses into alarmism heād fit in well at Forumosa!
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But not on par with the USA as a whole.
Itās scary that a guy who says he couldnāt ever imagine TW having 200-300 cases a day is the only person keeping it āsemi-realā.
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I always try to stick to this rule actually!
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What happens in the lockdown drill? Are we actually restricted from going outside? Is it all day? If thatās the case, this is short notice.
Is it a lockdown drill? sound to me like a lockdown day.
Maybe itās a letās test the watersā¦
What if itās a trick to get us all into lockdown!
JUST KIDDING
Many other governments did this to see how many laws they could break before the peasants stormed the castle with torches and pitchforks. To their complete surprise, they never did.
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Man, thatās brilliant!
That guy has certainly learned some things. But not the right things.
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Are we stating the obvious ?
Using a broad base of population may actually be more realistic than a smaller base
Of course Taiwan may differ due to particular circumstances and maybe dramatically
At this point we donāt know
I live in the USA we could use Californiaās figures maybe that will narrow it down or what may be more pin point may be to use NYC as Taipei is like a smaller NYC
Things went south very quickly very badly in NYC so yes Taiwan could for a period be in deep shit
People were abandoning NYC to anywhere they could for awhile
If I wanted to be alarmist I would say on the bad end this could become total chaos for Taiwan
But I believe In not being alarmist and prefer to preach a message of staying calm and Taiwan will ride out the storm
It could get rough for awhile supermarkets cleaned out and panic rules the streets but really this is not the SARS virus it IS a SARS virus but itās not as potent or anywhere close to the last one
So stay calm stay safe
I really meant during a covid crisis
My friend stubbed his toe and didnāt go to the hospital for months and now he had to have his toe amputated
WTH? What was the issue?
Dry gangrene from the infection
The doc said heās lucky he didnāt have to lose his whole foot
Just pointing that the US situation is still worse than Taiwan in term of numbers.
This is the data https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
I suggest you check where Taiwan (~2.9 cases per 100000) would sit if it were a US state in term of # of cases.
Above or below California?
You are āpotentiallyā alarmist 
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Thanks for your encouragement, hopefully we can learn from the US and do a bit better.
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Taipei Times article is much clearer. I canāt find mention of it in Chinese language news. It seems to be just a practice run for those in certain positions and not something that will involve most of the public.
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Taiwan is just starting its covid event
The USA has come through more than a year and more than a year without a vaccine
We started our crisis letās say March 2020 with the initial lockdown starting in the bay area the infection supposedly started spreading in nov 2019
We started getting the vaccine in large numbers in March /April
We have more of a history of infections and itās various effects on the populace and the economy
Taiwan is just starting to enter its covid typhoon
At this stage we donāt know how things will go
In taiwan
If I was the President of Taiwan I would plan for the worst and hope for the best
While realizing HOPE is not a strategy
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