My post was deleted, but I was trying to make the point that, if you shut down this industry here then those industries over there will be affected, possibly to the point where they have to shut down. And if that chain reaction is allowed to run to its logical conclusion, then the currency becomes nothing more than pretty paper, or numbers on computers.
Which is why, as @Icon said, they will probably try to avoid a “hard lockdown” … unless (as happened elsewhere) pressure from the public or media compels it.
Actually, I read more of big plants hiding cases to keep on killing animals…and workers falling sick like flies.
Here we have the SEA as “expendables” …up to a point. Philippines would be the first to complain if we get an outbreak. And without SEA workers, the factories don’t make stuff. Hence, it is in Taiwan’s best interests not to get an outbreak among factory workers.
Food we have enough for six months. Remember in Taiwan we are in battle mode. Distribution channels will remain open as there will be no hard lockdown plus there is not such a long distance between production facilities and the market place. Farmers can send directly if needed. That is why we have the little blue trucks in corner.
BTW the farmers get compensated here when their flocks are culled due to disease. We are socialists in that sense.
I don’t know if I’m in the market for a guitar. I have a metal string one, but there’s quite a distance from the strings to the neck so it’s difficult to play for a beginner.
More than anything, I really feel you should do well selling guitars when we have months and months of basically a lockdown.
Keep in mind vehicle maintenance, insurance, car payment, etc. likely costs more than 1000nt a day.
I envy being able to make 1000nt a day too, because it would actually be sustainable for me even if it’s paycheck to paycheck.
@marasan
That means your guitar needs a setup. That is either your guitar has shifted due to seasonal change, or you had a low quality guitar that was never setup to begin with. I can fix that for you.
But I don’t know how well I’ll do. I’m not going to be the first people come to for guitars, it’s going to be those major music shops who moves massive quantities of low to mid quality instruments, they will make the big bucks.
Like I said earlier, the teachers, unions, and parents won’t want to return to school for safety concerns. I think the government will be forced to pay for a parent to stay home and care for the children who are out of school. I don’t want my daughter going to school with Wuhan Flu and bringing it home to her grandmother or parents.
Just so you know, a hard lockdown does not mean and never has meant shutting down essential services. So power plants, grocery stores, police forces, healthcare, farms, the supply chain, and all the other things we need to run a functioning civilization will still operate.
I read in the last couple of days about the Taiwan agriculture community suffering because they don’t have the schools and restaurants buying. Oh, it was a friend who posted on her timeline about farmers she knew who needed to quickly sell to someone before the food spoiled.
I’ll message you if I want to change guitars or if I want mine worked on.
As for the business, I wouldn’t give up so easily. There’s that guy selling bicycles who seems to be doing okay. Think about that. A foreigner selling bicycles in a small shop, in the country where Giant is headquartered!
Well, I’m not sure I got enough gas to go on. Seems everything I do is just selling equities to survive another day.
If this lockdown drags on, it will be really bad as I will be forced to move out in november. I do not know if those government recalls will be delayed or anything on account of the pandemic but I sure hope so, because moving during a pandemic will not be pleasant either.
It is an issue. A country that turns a blind eye to illegal workers will have to deal with the consequences when they’re no longer earning. They have to eat.
It isn’t a hard lockdown then. It’s a pretense at lockdown that does nothing other than make people poor and miserable.
My original point was that a hard lockdown - as hinted at in the level 4 outline - is impossible. They will therefore not do it. Or, if they do do it (which might happen if the politicians override their sane, educated and rational advisers), we’re all royally screwed. Specifically, this:
Lockdown imposed in townships, counties or cities where the outbreak is severe. Only designated personnel may enter/exit the lockdown area; residents must remain in their homes.
is completely incompatible with public safety and health. It cannot be done. Or, if exceptions are made so as to keep “essential services” running, it will have no epidemiological purpose, and it becomes nothing more than repression for the sake of repression.
I don’t think you realise just how many people are required to keep civilisation-as-we-know-it up and running. 60-70% of jobs are absolutely critical for the long-term functioning of a highly urbanized society, which is one reason governments obsess over unemployment. And I really don’t know why any of this is subject to debate: to discover what lockdowns do or don’t do, all you have to do is go and look at what happened to other countries that attempted various sorts of lockdown (or didn’t) during 2020.
Taiwan has the advantage (theoretically) that we are not flying blind. But for some reason, the gov’t seems less than keen to exploit that advantage.
