Does every mall have one person whose job it is to randomly lock or block off doors? For the life of me, I can’t figure out the logic behind them arbitrarily blocking off doors for entry/exit.
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Not just malls. There’s a cultural obsession with blocking access and equal obsession with negating it.
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Prolly some kind of fenshui or people chess or squid game. Only billy o naires know what it mean
Cus of the AC they say.. yet its the same deal in winter time.
There are some buildings whose doors never open.. why not design them differently in the first place?
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Lots of what I’ve seen over the years here in this regard would immediately be viewed as dangerous and illegal in Canada. 
Guy
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In many regards actually 
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Don’t get me started about red lights and driving . . .
I will say though that Canadians are happy to enjoy the joys of jaywalking. 
Guy
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Locked doors have always been a problem. But restrictions on entries and exits really kicked in with SARS, to help ensure people complied with temperature checks, etc., when entering buildings.
Of course a fire in a department store could end up a catastrophe with so few working exits. Taiwan has been pushing its luck far too long.
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I’m curious why they’d persist with the behavior when there’s no loner temperature checks though.
Ah that does make a bit more sense. But yeah…why not design differently and replace the doors with revolving doors to better maintain temperature?
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That costs money!!!
Or something like that.
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Emergency exits are extra warehouse space. Everybody knows that.
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It’s like here at the Xindian District Office. Before Covid all the doors could be opened. Then when temperature checks came they switched to only using the green doors at the right.
To this day the red doors are still locked, forcing everyone coming from the main road on the left to walk much further, because the elevators are behind the red doors on the left.
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When I was in the Fire Service, on the safety enforcement side.We had to calculate the number of exits required which was dependent on the number of persons in the building. There had to be a complete evacuation in three minutes. I wonder if there is similar (lack of) enforcement in Taiwan.
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There almost certainly is a similar rule, but as you suggest - not enforced. It will be enforced after there’s a tragedy.
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Go in there and complain! Tell them they will be all over the news in a scandal if there is any trouble. They wouldn’t want to be all over the news, would they?
Guy
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Now repeat this combo, but while driving.
Guy
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Mario cart in RL???
Wonder how much time the woman got.
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The story just gets better and better
“72-year-old man in Kaohsiung was sentenced to 40 days in jail after he was found having sex with a 67-year-old woman under a slide in a public park”
At 3pm on Sunday
Huang reportedly told Tsai that she had not eaten in several days and asked for NT$300, so Tsai then gave her NT$200 for food
although she said that Tsai could not maintain an erection 
and they could not complete the act
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