Ok, now find doctors/nurses/cleaners willing to take the bullet of social ostracism.
I understand your point of view but find it hard to sell to locals.
Thereās certainly been a jump, but not 10k.
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They are doing this in other countries.
Are you suggesting that a) Taiwanās medical community consists solely of scared, selfish people who arenāt in medicine to help others and b) are uniquely impervious to the lure of financial incentives that would compensate them for the inconvenience and risk associated with working at a dedicated Covid facility?
Buddy read up on the Hoping Hospital. Itās still present of mind to Taiwanese Iāve spoken to. It was a decade ago.
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2003 was more than a decade ago.
And yeah, I really donāt care about the fact that some Taiwanese still have a visceral emotional reaction to Hoping to the extent that their emotions would lead the authorities to shun science and established medical best practice.
Some people harbor fears based on religion, superstition, pseudoscience, etc. It doesnāt mean policy should be dictated by these things.
Setting up dedicated facilities for the treatment of Covid patients is something that is being done around the world, and it has been more successful than the alternative. It would have prevented what we just saw in Taoyuan, and by logic, would eliminate the risk of another Hoping situation.
Having taking several TRA trains in the past couple of weeks, I can confirm that the ban on eating/drinking on trains and platforms is pretty much not enforced. Walking throughout the train youāll find lots of people eating full meals, many people snacking on platforms.
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Yes, sort of and yes, there is a limit. I think political and societyās opposition to the idea will make it hard to implement. I can see the headlines. And the āother places do itā argument aināt gonna fly here, as we have done things differently. Moreover, hospital administrators are unwilling to separate from their cash. Did you know the bonus hospital workers received was only 10k? For that kind of dangerous work, it is not enough, me thinks.
Though the proposal is logical, human factor makes it unpalatable.
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You donāt understand the nuances of Taiwanese society as well as you believe you do if you think this.
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As per the business wire article helpfully linked above by @quandary , Taiwan is scheduled to receive 5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine (i.e. enough to inoculate 2.5 million people) with deliveries scheduled to begin āmid-2021.ā
The Moderna vaccine (as with all COVID related vaccines) still needs to obtain approval in Taiwan.
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No, it just means that I donāt care about the nuances of Taiwanese society enough to let them change my opinion about the science and logic behind the concept of treating Covid patients in facilities where theyāre not comingled with non-Covid patients.
Like I said, itās a best practice that has been implemented by other countries and despite the issues raised here, per an article I linked to previously, some top infectious disease experts in Taiwan support doing this and the CDC says that itās considering it.
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Iām in a smallish town down south and there is virtually zero mask usage. Theyāre all old as well. Fingers crossed I havenāt brought them a little surprise from Taoyuan.
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Iāve noticed this as well in the past ten days, the further south I travel the fewer masks being worn.
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Thereās not much point as far as I can see. Thereās no virus down thereā¦shrugs
Mind you Kaohsiung is enforcing mask wearing quite strictly.
Are we not allowed to do this? I thought itās only on the actual train that itās banned.
Tainan station even has a little food shop on the platform itselfā¦
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The punishment is already four weeks of quarantine.
Any new cases?
Thatās about 10% of the population vaccinated by September/October. So hang on until next year! I guess, not vaccinated, not going anywhere, not getting on a plane.