A Taiwanese friend visited NorCal and SoCal over Christmas vacation (their family lives on West Coast).
They remarked that nearly no one was wearing masks in California, even as their famiky did for their own reasons.
They went to Disneyland with their young children and even in the ride lines teenagers were taking off masks.
I think confirmed case went to Kaohsiung and visited the Kaohsiung arena.
transmission risk was quite low it seems. Seems a non infectious period according to the article. footprints have gone include the Marriott Hotel, Tanzuomali Art Museum, Hanshen Arena, and Yixiang Tiandi (Xu Ji and Food Collection), all of which have been thoroughly cleaned up.
I go to Kaohsiung Arena like twice a week lol. But like you and the article said, chance of transmission is low. If the CDC isn’t worried, neither am I. There was a big concert and festival over the weekend at the place. Barely shoulder room to move. So Omicron would have a field day there.
On the one hand we’ve got an 80% vaccinated population, and on the other we’ve got the CECC saying, “don’t worry, masks will save us all!” when everyone knows that cloth masks are essentially useless and the standard blue surgical masks do next-to-nothing.
It’s almost as if they expect the vaccines to fail miserably, isn’t it?
Oh. I got that wrong, too, then. By the title, I wasn’t expecting this here to be the continuation of the “Taiwan Open” thread Coronavirus - Taiwan Open November/December 2021. instead, the title led me to believe this here is about “Taiwan developments”, eg. new stuff happening in Taiwan (Pressers, rules, …). Hence my similar rant way up-thread ^^
However, looking back at the current and old threads tagged COVID-19, it seems I remembered wrong: also in 2021 it seems there was no dedicated “Taiwan Developments” thread like @SuiGeneris and I were expecting. The closest one indeed seems to be the one about current rules: Nationwide: Level 2 epidemic warning (from October 17, 2021) - Rules, FAQ.