The risk of getting run over in taiwan is higher than catching corona in a western country. If you really want to avoid catching it you can stay home and make masked socially distanced trips to the supermarket.
In taiwan even if you wanted to do this you would still have to make contact with the roads, and as we have seen in another thread, its completely out of your hands whether the traffic will decide to stop for you or, whether you will be mashed across the street by a bus. Man woman or child, makes no difference. You are at the mercy of taiwans law of the road jungle. High school student dead after being hit by bus on pedestrian crossing – Taiwan English News
See. This is absolutely and unequivocally false. I provided the numbers and the proof.
Again, this is a strawman, I can go to any place in the world, pick up a news article and scream the sky is falling. I provided the numbers and proof that Taiwan is not particularly dissimilar to other developed countries.
Except it’s not. It’s dependent on both people. If one person fails to do due diligence when infected, they can still infect someone else. Corona is invisible. You can’t avoid everything.
You can only reduce the risk. Not eliminate it. Not everyone that died from Corona is an irresponsible person and is insensitive to suggest otherwise.
Again, it’s one person at one point on time on one road. So what?
One time does not paint a picture. It’s a pixel.
This is why we have statistics.
They help us paint a picture.
From the picture we derive conclusions.
Cannot make a conclusion from one time/incident
Cause it is disingenuous to draw conclusions about the state of an entire country from individual incidents. One must take a look at the whole picture.
Correct, you can reduce the risk greatly.
I’ve been in the UK in crazy wave we had over christmas, probably the highest proportional number of cases in the developed world. As i’ve said, taking personal responsibility works pretty good.
However in taiwan i’ve been nearly run over several times. Other than running across the road like a deer, how can i have any control over what a dangerous driver does?
That’s one particularly cold way to look at it.
Another way is the recent news article was a kid going to school, who couldn’t even cross the road to get to her school safely. If you think it’s not a big deal then fine, but i’d say there’s some big issues with your country when your child cannot even get to school without risk of death.
Says the person who puts a smiley after listing the UKs number of corona deaths, and says “so what” “look at the bigger picture” after kids get killed outside of their school.
Is public health not a safety issue? I’m not equating Corona deaths with traffic safety. Death is death. And you have a risk of death in every situation you are in.
I guarantee you a dead person does not care if they were killed by a bus or a disease or hiking.
I don’t know cus the current stats don’t -as you like to say- give the full picture. I don’t believe the traffic in NZ is equally as bad as TW. Even if the stats are the same.
I’ll go one better for you, i’ll give you a rule which will make a big improvement to pedestrian safety and start to improve the dangerous driving mindset in taiwan overall. All cars should have to stop at pedestrian crossings, including turnings.