No not fair
Of course Taiwanese can send it to other Taiwanese families overseas. Thats by nature of them being Taiwanese. I am a foreigner. How would I have Taiwanese family back home unless I was married to a Taiwanese. I am not married. So my family isn’t worth the same as a Taiwanese family overseas?
Otherwise why am I paying tax at a locals rate when I can’t utilize any of the benefits of being a resident?
overseas family members of taiwanese are not always taiwanese by nature.
I think it is a benefit for overseas taiwanese. why overseas foreigners should be given the same benefits with overseas taiwanese by taiwan?
The ROC is way ahead of the PRC in terms of human rights but that’s a very low bar.
The ROC can and should do better.
They need leaders to lead the way.
I think the government will donate or sell more masks to foreign countries for their frontline workers in future again.
Because we are residents. As such we should be treated equally.
yes, so I agree the part that foreign residents should be allowed to send masks to overseas taiwanese family members.
Iiuc, the government allowed the mask export not to protect family members of taiwanese, but to protect overseas taiwanese with hukou. The government doesn’t have an easy way to distribute masks to them, so allowed their family members to send masks to them. Yet, I don’t think it does much to protect them.
The subsidy/tax contributions works similarly in other countries as well. When I was working in the US I wasn’t eligible for Medicare or Medicaid or EIC, if needed. Part of my taxes went towards these. But if I left within a few years without getting permanent residency ( impossible given the backlog) neither would I be eligible for those programs ever not would I get any refund.
Most countries pretty much have the same philosophy of tolerating non citizens - they have to perform all duties but do not have equal rights.
Actually lots of countries treat their residents much better too. Need examples, I can give you. And the US (since you mentioned it) allows dual citizenship so it’s really less of an issue overall. They certainly don’t exclude caregivers and labourers and fishermen (who are the majority of foreign residents ) from federal workplace and minimum pay regulations.
Nevertheless, and to get to the point , I think it is VERY petty that foreign residents in Taiwan are not able to send their OWN masks that they fairly bought and applied for to their relatives overseas !
Especially as the government has just given away ten million masks to other countries for political purposes.
That is wonderful however why not limit how many masks a person ,any person equally in Taiwan can buy at one time and not limit that person to mail it to loved ones elsewhere
Humanity starts at ground level
yes, I think it is generous if Taiwan allows to send masks to overseas non-taiwanese family members too, but I don’t think it is unfair that taiwan dones’t allow it at this moment.
Well I’ve filed my complaint. If anyone else thinks it’s unfair I recommend you file a complaint too.
If you don’t think it’s unfair it’s no skin off my nose.
It is not taiwanese can send masks to their family members, but overseas taiwanese citizens can get masks via their family members in Taiwan.
為了照顧在海外的台灣人，政府宣布自9日起開放民眾寄送口罩至海外。
It is additional 30 masks to the allocated 9 per 2 weeks.
The 30/2 months for relatives is applied and approved differently from personal use.
For those saying medical professionals need them more, a nurse friend of mine pointed out an obvious but overlooked reality: if the masses were protected at all points of physical interaction with all others (wearing masks), the medical professionals wouldn’t need so much PPE because there would be less cases coming in needing care.
I am NOT saying that medical professionals shouldn’t get priority, as they absolutely do need PPEs more than the rest of us (viral load), but I am pointing out that Taiwan’s mass mask wearing must have something to do with the low case numbers. Taiwanese pretty much never wash their hands with soap (even today, only my students that get stared down by me even bother to turn the water on) and plenty of people have escaped quarantine, yet the cases haven’t really risen. Masks must have something to do with it, cuz all other forms of common sense hygiene is limited here.
If Taiwanese citizens can send masks to their families and protect overseas Taiwanese, anyone else paying taxes here should have the right to protect their own family members. Either that or don’t allow Taiwanese to send masks abroad either. One or the other.
the point is mass masking. It is impossible that Taiwan provides enough masks for other large countries to do mass masking.
again, it is not taiwanese citizens can send masks for their families, but overseas taiwanese citizens can get allocated masks via their family. I don’t see any reason Taiwan should allocate masks to overseas non taiwanese, though if they do so it is generous of them. Overseas non taiwanese family of taiwanese citizens cannot get masks too at this moment.
They don’t need to allocate for overseas anybody. They just need to allow us to send our own allocation that we are entitled to to family members in need.
Wouldn’t it be a risk for people in Taiwan if you don’t use the masks you are allocated?
Masks are allocated to residents and visitors to protect taiwan.
口罩徵用後是國家防疫物資，而不是個人財產，因此要恰當分配，讓每個人都能用得到，是為了保護自己、社會所需的物資
We will we not need to use all the masks we are allocated, we don’t need to send all of them. Don’t be ridiculous. Are you now worried people aren’t taking their full allocation because that is actually currently the case and there is no drama . Everybody who needs a mask has one . People here are NOT taking their full allocation already.
Why is it a risk now when foreign residents want to send some masks but not Taiwanese ? Masks were previously allocated to people in Taiwan to protect people in Taiwan . They are not allocated to a nebulous concept called ‘Taiwan’. But now the government is allowing the export of masks to family members and residents would like to send a few of their own masks to family members too. Also mask factories have some limited export permission I believe or will have very soon. And of course the government is sending ten million overseas (half a days production ). Mask production is reaching 20 million a day here.
Again I repeat, mask production is reaching 20 million a day here when most Taiwanese people already have some masks stocked and guaranteed bigger allocation from next week already.
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And the masks are allocated ones for the overseas taiwanese.
We cannot send own allocated masks maybe because they are requisited and not owned by us though we pay for the masks and government wouldn’t demand to return unused ones.