# Coronavirus - Taiwan Developments Jan. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Tags:** taitung, covid-19, 2022\ **Created:** [December 31, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287 "2021-12-31T18:10:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![lostinasia](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/lostinasia/32/60703_2.png) [@lostinasia](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/lostinasia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/783 "2022-01-09T12:30:48Z")
> [@deepshelter](#): > > I think it is mainly because I am single and no kids (lots of pets) that it’s depressing me out again. Yeah, I can see that. As much as my spouse and I sometimes got annoyed about the unusual amount of time together, having each other around definitely helped. I was super happy in late September to get back in the classroom and talk to real live faces again. For cycling, cherry blossom season should be coming soon! ---
**Author:** ![KINGKONGDONK](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/kingkongdonk/32/200302_2.png) [@KINGKONGDONK](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/KINGKONGDONK)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/784 "2022-01-09T12:36:05Z")
fitness factories Facebook posted it. ---
**Author:** ![the.shoemaker](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/the.shoemaker/32/116796_2.png) [@the.shoemaker](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/the.shoemaker)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/785 "2022-01-09T12:48:42Z")
I haven’t been in Taiwan the past few months but a friend of mine is in Taipei, unvaccinated, and wants to know how he can get a vaccine at the moment. Does he need to register on a website or just walk into a clinic somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/786 "2022-01-09T12:51:31Z")
Moderna is available for walk-in vaccinations at Taipei Main Station’s ground floor concourse daily from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm. No appointment needed. It’s free and he may also get a nice voucher for participating! If your friend is not in the Taipei area, there are similar schemes in other major cities. Let me know if you need me to dig and find the details. Guy ---
**Author:** ![Ducked](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ducked](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Ducked)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/787 "2022-01-09T12:51:43Z")
> [@lostinasia](#): > > Distance teaching required a lot more work (or a lot more time to get the same work done), but fortunately classes are almost finished for the semester. But there’s next semester. I doubt this’ll all be done and dusted over the winter vacation, though the CNY human wave attacks will likely speed things up a bit. Just signed a contract for next semester after stalling for as long as I could to see how things looked. Now I’m wondering if I could / should still bale. Moral dilemma. ---
**Author:** ![stinsonlover](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@stinsonlover](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/stinsonlover)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/788 "2022-01-09T12:51:58Z")
Yes, I read the statement from Chen’s office about this now. Glad I didn’t sell off the free weights I bought in May ---
**Author:** ![KINGKONGDONK](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/kingkongdonk/32/200302_2.png) [@KINGKONGDONK](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/KINGKONGDONK)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/789 "2022-01-09T12:52:22Z")
gym is still open, no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![stinsonlover](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@stinsonlover](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/stinsonlover)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/791 "2022-01-09T12:54:29Z")
> [@Ducked](#): > > Now I’m wondering if I could / should still bale. So glad I was contracted by a really good school through the next semester. ---
**Author:** ![lostinasia](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/lostinasia/32/60703_2.png) [@lostinasia](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/lostinasia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/792 "2022-01-09T12:56:36Z")
> [@Ducked](#): > > Now I’m wondering if I could / should still **bale**. Best make hay while the sun shines! ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/793 "2022-01-10T01:19:52Z")
11 posts were split to a new topic: [Etymology of “bail/bale out”](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/etymology-of-bail-bale-out/215563) ---
**Author:** ![olm](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/olm/32/91247_2.png) [@olm](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/olm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/795 "2022-01-09T13:11:28Z")
> [@the\_bear](#): > > Right now we have no uncontrolled community spread so nothing is going to happen for a while. As much as I wish that you, dear bear, are right: currently we **don’t know** of any uncontrollable community spread. That’s the problem always, and probably even more with Omicron: we only **know** after a week or two if we **had** community transmission and **should have been** more careful (restricted). I do understand those of us who (absolutely correctly) say that many measures are absolute Overkill in times of “no community transmission”. Yeah and some are plain stupid, like some outdoor related stuff . However, I do think that if Taiwan wants to keep its paradise-like super-low-risk status (compared to Europe or the Americas) a bit of countermeasures (masks, QR, vaccination - in L3 maybe dine in and other restrictions), as baseless as they might feel, affect life only little - yet help a bit in case that hindsight shows “oops there was something that got out”. The worst case that could happen if the L2 measures really were overkill is that we had a bit less of a fun time (or if you want to include conspiracy theories: that some pharma companies got even richer). L3 affects many businesses, granted. The worst case that could happen in the opposite case? Much worse, health and life related. ---
**Author:** ![topofan](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@topofan](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/topofan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/796 "2022-01-09T13:18:50Z")
The worst that can happen is living in lockdown for months and still everyone getting infected instead of it being over in 4-5 weeks like in south Africa. Its not possible to get immunity by vaccination, but it is likely that omicron gives you good immunity for omicron. So all the measures don’t help but slow down at the worst moment. Lockdown is maybe needed when hospitals overflow but then people will be tired from lockdown. It was clearly seen in Europe lockdown is only working shortly, people simply don’t care then anymore. So reasonably after you see you cannot contain it, open up everything so people are motivated once you actually need to slow it down Its the math, stupid. If everyone is gonna get it, then need to timed correctly. ---
**Author:** ![marasan](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marasan/32/181721_2.png) [@marasan](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/marasan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/797 "2022-01-09T13:27:04Z")
> [@afterspivak](#): > > Moderna is available for walk-in vaccinations at Taipei Main Station’s ground floor concourse daily from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm. No appointment needed. It’s free and he may also get a nice voucher for participating! Is that also for the booster? ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/798 "2022-01-09T13:29:15Z")
The reports I have read have unfortunately not made that clear. This would matter as the Moderna boosters are administered at half dose, so not interchangeable with doses one and two. Guy ---
**Author:** ![Icon](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/icon/32/189245_2.png) [@Icon](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Icon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/799 "2022-01-09T13:33:29Z")
Don’t let go of the apartment!!! It is very hard to find a good place, heck, a semi decent place in the middle of this plague. ---
**Author:** ![marasan](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marasan/32/181721_2.png) [@marasan](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/marasan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/801 "2022-01-09T13:38:57Z")
> [@afterspivak](#): > > The reports I have read have unfortunately not made that clear. > > This would matter as the Moderna boosters are administered at half dose, so not interchangeable with doses one and two. I might try and report back in the booster thread. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![KINGKONGDONK](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/kingkongdonk/32/200302_2.png) [@KINGKONGDONK](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/KINGKONGDONK)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/802 "2022-01-09T13:53:38Z")
![image](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/2/c/2cd09f138864a6abb9ec4908e6d9b73f91669fc7.jpeg) FYI for people coming in, there is no more saliva test, it’s not a pcr on arrival. ---
**Author:** ![miamidice](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@miamidice](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/miamidice)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/803 "2022-01-09T13:55:08Z")
> [@olm](#): > > The worst case that could happen in the opposite case? Much worse, health and life related. Worst case is that the whole country catches a mild cold. That is the reality of Omicron now. The sooner we get it over and done with the better. Lockdowns will only cause prolonged misery economic woes for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/804 "2022-01-09T13:55:51Z")
> [@miamidice](#): > > Worst case is that the whole country catches a mild cold. No, that’s not known yet. ---
**Author:** ![miamidice](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@miamidice](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/miamidice)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287/805 "2022-01-09T13:56:34Z")
> [@tempogain](#): > > No, that’s not known yet. How much more data do you need than the millions who are currently experiencing mild colds? [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287.md?page=37) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-taiwan-developments-jan-2022/215287.md?page=39)