You can do this:
Your friend buys a SIM card # with a cell #. He/she activates that number on a smartphone.
You use that SIM card cell # to fill out the webpage of information that the government wants before you board plane.
When you arrive in Taoyuan, make sure your friend has that smartphone turned on with that SIM card # you gave the government, because once you disembark the plane, the government will auto-send something to that phone #.
You yourself just hook-up to Taoyuan airport’s free WiF and your friend sends you a screenshot of what was received (from the gov’t) to the SIM card # on his/her end.
That way, you skip ahead of the long line, show that screenshot, you go through heat-temp area, and onwards to immigration. You’ll save maybe an hour or 2 not having to apply for SIM card right there (like hundreds of others from planes arriving), activating it, filling out form, etc. etc.
When you are at your Taichung residence, you put that SIM card into your own smartphone and keep it there (or the phone your friend used to activate it, if you will use that same phone for the next 14 days). A local police officer will call you on that number that same day. If that # does not have a LINE account, just set one up from App Store, because you’ll be asked if you have LINE account, as it makes things go smoother if you do, for your daily temp checks. You’ll get a daily text msg and LINE msg each day in the morning.
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