It wouldn’t have been if other countries hadn’t been so laughably inept.
Gain has found Taiwan’s next excuse!
We would have had no locally transmitted cases, but we let foreigners from countries with lots of cases in with just a two week quarantine, its not our fault. Blame all those inept countries for not tackling the virus, not us for willingly letting them in!
If Taiwan has an outbreak this late into the game, it is entirely Taiwan’s fault. They know how easily the virus spreads and they are taking an unnecessary risk by only enforcing a two week quarantine. When COVID spread around Europe, nobody knew how serious it would become, so you can forgive governments for not acting immediately, but there is no excuse for being inept now.
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Just remember that these recent cases are mostly from people who have been here in Quarantine for about 2 weeks. There are no more arriving for a couple of weeks as the Government put a stop to Indonesian Worker arrivals for 2 weeks from December 4, Hopefully the Indonesian Agents get the hint (14 of them are already banned).
Full details from Taiwan CDC
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FFS, with these daily up-ticks, its time to swallow pride and pull up the drawbridge, surely? Accept the relatively minor inconveniences of lockdown for a month or so… OR… double-up SERIOUSLY on entry and quarantine routines before the shit really starts to hit the rotating set of helically-formed blades
Why is a lockdown necessary. At this stage there is no Transmission of the virus that cannot be traced.
A lockdown a hammer and fist approach to stopping the virus when there are untraced transmission.
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Did you read the details provided by Icon in the post immediate above yours?
Hint: the Taiwan authorities have indeed made adjustments based on the unfolding situation.
Guy
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Exactly, so tighten up further on the entry and quarantine. Its not only Indonesians entering with covid issues
Dr. Mike Yeadon, Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory claims there is evidence herd immunity is already present in the UK.
If so, would it be possible it has already happened in Taiwan? If not would this suggest that it would eventually arrive in Taiwan?
The vaccine wouldn’t stop it as it would only relieve symptoms.
What is the testing method in Taiwan? PCR? If so, how many cycles?
No!
What? No! It’s a vaccine.
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Unless something has changed recently:
can’t open them.
Herd immunity in Taiwan? What is the mechanism by which this could possibly be possible? It isn’t widespread infection a la the Swedish or UK models, and it isn’t vaccination…
So yes, as long as it is circulating worldwide it would eventually arrive in Taiwan. However, a vaccine that relieves the symptoms would mean it is just a harmless bug, so it would be effectively ‘stopped’.
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Both work for me.
Lock down? Jesus Christ. For what? A few Indonesians testing positive while in quarantine.
These are the last few batches of Indonesians. As of this week no more are allowed into Taiwan.
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You are assuming one person was infected by the other. It’s not a fact.
The Vietnamese was tested negative:
https://udn.com/news/story/120940/5071788
Filipino man left quarantine room for 8 seconds, fined $100,000NTD
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Taiwan will lose all its cheap foreign labour if it isn’t careful.
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