I think it’s just a matter of salami slicing the Standard Operating Procedure of the last two years. Slow shaving might mean less of a spike and less of a strain. If you ask me, I think they’d prefer the slow burn so it doesn’t cause spiked demands on the health system.
This. Premier Su said as much.
Guy
I talked to a nurse who works in IC, and their main concern is all the elderly who decided to play Russian roulette. If what @Chris59 says then we’re in good shape, because the hospitals are not over run by cases.
anyway, @Chris59 I found the stats you were looking for, 45,815 Tested, 55.45% to average Taiwan COVID Status 0.8382% positivity
Actually not bad. Germany had on average of 277.000 per day last week (but also bigger population)
It’s pretty bad. It’s less than double the baseline ca. 25k daily tests Taiwan has been doing for months anyway (including all the quarantine tests), and it’s virtually guaranteed to severely underestimate the number of cases as they continue to rise.
The comparison with Germany isn’t really valid - from what I gather from friends, people are routinely doing rapid tests there as well (not the case in Taiwan), and Germany has been living with this for a couple of years now rather than just beginning to.
Well yeah I agree with the rapid test. We can basically do free rapid test at official test centers 3 times a week and positive cases get automatically reported.
I think the CDC is too scared to do this, since they will find out the actual number. Also depends if people would use it, since you have to go to a painful quarantine.
NTNU (Shida) moved all classes online starting today, ending April 17.
I’ve seen people using home test kits which don’t get recorded into the daily tests Taiwan’s government does.
No, they don’t. The data suggests it’s better not to vaccinate the 5 to 12 group.
Edit… I see you at the referring to optional vaccines.
What do you mean? It’s just eight days to flatten the curve. 
My work made us do the home test kits… They were making us take the test wrong and I told them but they didn’t believe me and carried on lol
Also, I have students that were connected to schools that closed already back? I thought quarantine was longer but doesn’t bother me!
Test the teachers but don’t test the kids. Anything so the school isn’t blamed.
Source? I don’t see this in the English media so far.
Reason? Cases found? Precaution?
Cases found so the uni shuts down.
I’d expect this to happen across the board with unis soon. 
Guy
Me too, as in toot sweet. As well as high schools on down.
From email sent to faculty (see below). I’m also at NTU (Taida) and it was class as usual yesterday. My carpentry class at Kejida, however, was canceled today due to two cases on campus (though not in our class). It’s going to be whack-a-mole for a bit . . .
師大防疫快訊（111/4/7）
因應疫情變化，實施遠距教學
一、教務相關：
所有課程自4月8日起至4月17日止全面改為遠距教學，詳細資訊請參閱教務處網頁公告。
NTNU Pandemic Safety Measures Announcement（April 7, 2022）
Shifting to remote learning in response to COVID-19
1.Class-related matters:
All courses will move to remote learning from April 8 to April 17. For more information, see the announcement on the Office of Academic Affairs website.
Thanks for the update and welcome to Forumosa.
The Infection Fatality Rate for ages 1-18 has been estimated at 0.0021% (age 1) to 0.0018% (at age 18).
In other words, there’s more than a 99.99% chance one’s kid will not die of Covid.
Covid is hardly an imminent ‘threat’ to this age group.
It’s not a “vaccine bad/ vaccine good” argument. It’s that vaccines aren’t necessary for this age group. At all.