No local cases today… good news. Hope it stays like this.
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They should lock his door and throw away the key!
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He will use the window for sure 
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It’s a-holes like this that make upright law-abiding forumosans look good.
Put otherwise: thanks man for setting the bar so low! 
Guy
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Meanwhile, Minister Chen delivers an update about the Taoyuan cluster:
Guy
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how would that make any sense since every taiwanese person would know that chinas vaccine is worthless?
With what? A brainwash vaccine?
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They make the Taisheng an offer they can’t refuse.
they can refuse it by getting the hell out of dodge like they should have a long time ago.
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And lose their factories and investment in the process…which they will lose eventually, but most don’t see it.
Many still believe they have the upper hand…
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If they don’t see it now of all times then there is no hope for them…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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As so many did before them.
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Guilded cages are the worst.
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Indeed. But the silence about those stories is deafening.
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So the press has been hounding minister Chen daily asking why is the test in Taiwan 19 times more expensive than in China… 
Chen replies deadpan: because ours is more accurate.
The head of TAO issued an statement saying: that gentleman either is lying to Taiwan people or wrong
The dutiful press of course informed Chen of the statement, to which he calmly replied: that gentleman does not know what he is talking about.
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The man’s a fucking legend…he has to handle so much bullshit from morons every day, never even breaks his expression.
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Yeah, sorry, but that really seems pretty dubious, unless he’s willing to back it up with the data. The test in Taiwan is more expensive than those in a lot of countries, and I doubt it has anything to do with accuracy.
It’s just a routine PCR test - tiny amounts of several primers, buffers, and enzymes, and access to a thermocycler. It’s nothing special, and unless he’s making clear it’s a joke, I think it damages the CDC’s credibility to say stuff like that.
In addition, I thought the CDC had previously claimed that the high cost of the test was due to limited resources and to discourage people taking them every time they have a cough? NT$7000 or whatever is for sure a massive markup - I’ve no idea exactly what a single PCR test costs, but I seriously doubt it’s more than a couple of hundred whether it’s in Taiwan or anywhere else.
Irrespective of what you think of China, I’m also 100% confident that, given their resources, mass-testing schemes, and strict efforts to control the virus, they will have optimised their testing protocols as much as possible by this point. I seriously doubt they’re doing all that stuff with unreliable tests.
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