My hypothesis then is they got infected together at some event or some gathering. But where?
Guy
Thatâs what people in the boonies do.
Unfortunately this virus does not sleep.
Guy
Yesterday while doing the QR code thing at a department store a couple breezed pass me through the door without bothering.
Passed a basketball court full of teenagers playing completely maskless, not even chin diapering, then crowding around cellphones maskless to watch each other play online games.
The electronic temp taker/alcohol sprayer at my apartment building ran out of alcohol days ago, nobody bothered to refill it, and now doesnât even record temps.
This will go on until the next outbreak when the MRT and the streets empty again.
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The amount of dumb sh&t Iâve seen in the past couple of days in Taipei has been startling.
Folks seem to be either genuinely unaware or blithely unconcerned about the Delta breach . . .
Guy
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Yeah, thatâs kind of what they said, but itâs hard to think of a more opaque way to say it:
Taiwan Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Chih-chung (éłćä¸) on Tuesday Aug. 24) said Taiwan was not pursuing a âzero-COVIDâ policy, but added itâs a direction the country has been taking all along.
Chen said, âGetting cases down to zero is not the goal, but itâs a direction that hasnât changed.â
Especially when theyâre trying to track down every case, closing restaurants and public events, locking up migrant workers, and sending the chemical warfare troops to spray every store/beach/whatever visited by a plague victim. I wonder what a zero-COVID policy would look like?
Maybe âunpursued zero-COVID directionâ would be an acceptable alternative?
I think those things were already acknowledged to be wildly inaccurate anyway? Didnât even the government say something criticizing them a month or so ago? Itâs just theater. (Although the hand sanitizer function maybe wouldnât hurt.)
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IMO an actual zero-covid policy would look like them actually going to level 4 when it was warranted according to their initial criteria. I think this âdirectionâ towards zero is essentially minimizing cases as much as possible without impacting businesses such that it would require subsidizing peopleâs incomes, which isnât happening. I donât agree at all with locking up migrant workers, but you see such strict measures because there will be little-to-no outcry among either the general public or âthe bossesâ. Thereâs a reason they never actually mandated WFH, that would be a zero-covid policy.
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Yeah, I didnât take it to be accurate (although it usually seemed to be), I just liked to get a spritz on my hands on the way out or in. Funnily enough it always said âNormal temperatureâ in English, the only one I ever heard saying that. I guess the lady whose job it is to fill it couldnât reprogram it to Chinese. And she speaks zero English.
But itâs just one more indication of the lack of vigilance. Why buy this thing if they arenât even going to use it properly? For months we had just a spray bottle of alcohol on a stool at the door and then they set up this thing. Now itâs an expensive doorstop.
Sigh!
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Yeah maybe, I see your point. I do feel though that the measures taken are more like a âslow zero-COVID policyâ, where theyâre trying to get down to zero albeit at a rate where they donât need to pay out too much compensation to businesses/workers or totally tank the economy.
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Yes in Taiwan we are obviously seeing some sort of compromise, part way between an âOpen up! Freedom Day!â approach and military on the street policing movement (a la contemporary Vietnam).
Guy
That seems like a mistake. Also, surely the families have to go into a quarantine center?
Isnât this basically the same situation as the pilotâs kid? Didnât the classmates have to be quarantined?
Part is uninformed. Too busy to pay attention. Still a bit behind in news. More concerned with vaccines kill bit.
Then the ones that think that vaccines make them immune.
Other is, as said, fatigued.
Either way, weâre toast.
People are currently more concerned about restrictions to bbqing.
I listened to the morning presser by Taoyuan mayor. He said they were sending tablets, moon cakes and pao mien to the families quarantined, so the kids would continue their lessons. And have something to munch on.
Dunno where they are sending the stuff though.
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9 + 7 = 16 and zero deaths.
CDC Link was delayed and is posted further down.
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Yikes thatâs a lot of domestic cases⌠
All from the kindergarten linked to yesterdayâs two cases.
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Hopefully no Delta link I take it? Or is too early?
Alpha
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