Masks appear to have taken on the status of a genuine magic talisman. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you wear your mask the evil spirits will be scared away. If anything, the new rules make even less sense than 3.5 (which was already a random assortment of chocolate-coated monkey bollocks).
Can’t remember who it was who mentioned it earlier, but I can’t help wondering if they’re just making a significant amount from “fining” people for “mask violations”, and don’t want to lose that nice little source of coffee money.
They have lowered the restriction on how many people can meet together. That one point is good for me because my private group classes can begin again. My bank account will be happy.
Yeah, if they’re determined to stop it spreading, keeping offices WFH is the best way. My office is fairly small, has piss poor ventilation and lots of shared equipment. If one person gets it here, the entire company will.
Yet WFH is stopping now. Many places I know stopped it a couple of weeks ago.
Question #1, more serious: has anything actually been announced yet, or is it just leaked information so far?
Question #2, idle musing: so are we going to hit a stage where we are allowed to eat in a restaurant with other people, but are not allowed to eat take-out at a table or bench outside, due to the need to remove a mask?
Taiwanese like to over complicate what is somewhat simple. Have you seen any financial advisor? Math classes? Simple building policies? It is in their blood.
Have been every day. I can’t recall them ever referencing those stats to allay fears about Covid deaths. That’s why I asked for a source. A specific source. I guess you couldn’t find one to link me? After 8 months of this you’d think they would have said it just once
Dropping down a level while keeping most of the same restrictions seems to be only political theater, but only achieves two things: people think the virus situation is under control and we can eat out now / send kids to school. As if there’s no chance of it getting worse from here. It just feels like a bad idea.
Very brief Focus Taiwan story (i.e. in English!) of what seems to be happening. Basically … reducing to Level 2; details to come after press conference later today.
What’s the alternative? We let small businesses die and kids regress from keeping schools shut down? At a certain point you have to pull the trigger. Maybe there’s an argument for regional instead of national levels. At least in my city we haven’t had a case in 2 or 3 weeks. Explain to a small business owner why he has to fire more workers or declare bankruptcy because you think it’s still too soon.
