With the good news that the quarantine period will be reduced from seven to three days from tomorrow (although this could actually be four days in reality if you arrive early on the first day), I was wondering what exactly the following four-day “self health monitoring” period really means?
The article above says it’s just to go out to buy necessities. Would you get into trouble for meeting up with friends or taking an MRT to go to a park or use a gym?
Also, does Taiwan have designated “quarantine hotels” or can you stay anywhere? And can you change where you stay after the quarantine period/during “self health monitoring”?
Everyone self-health monitors themselves every day. Well, everyone except babies and people in comas, etc.
Why not just say, “Don’t eat in restaurants or attend events with over 10 people.”
I’ve been looking into this as I/we will be off the island next month. Upon return we (living together) can do the full 3 + 4 at our condo. With the “4” period meaning leaving the condo only for essentials.
If I end up traveling solo, upon return I must Q in a designated hotel for the full 7 days, as I wouldn’t be allowed to return to our 1 bathroom condo for the final "4’.
Also, I’ve read that Q hotels are trying to disallow Q guests from leaving the hotel for essentials (i.e. food) during the “4” period as their employees may be exposed to the Big C upon the guests return to the hotel.
Freakin’ Crazy !!
Towards the end of the article it states that during the “4” period at a Q hotel, you may come and go for essentials, inc. work. Negative antigen test results must be had every 2 days however.
Re: Air BnBs for Q, I’m sure they’d have to be approved by the gov’t. Do you know of where one could find this info? Thanks
In my case my landlord will make a contract with my girlfriend (outside of airbnb). Then she will just let me live there the first 7 days and stay at home. So I am basically just staying at her place as the only person. Not sure if that would also work if the contract is on your name, but why not? Then you basically just quarantine at home.
The only reason for arrivals to go through quarantine now to me seems fear of introducing badder strains into the country, otherwise what the freakin F are we trying to achieve here when its spreading like wildfire already?
lt feels like trying to keep the bathroom window shut to prevent rain from coming in when the bathtub is overflowing.
Perhaps it’s a deliberate attempt to hold off the BSA4/5 strains so the CECC can maintain its grip on power longer. Why enter the endemic stage and lose all validity when you can grasp for power one last time?
I just finished my self monitoring period. For me it was a weird semi-quaranine situation where the quarantine hotel staff would always ask me where Im going, phone me when Im out and continue to expect me to comply with all quarantine regulations knowing full well that i can still go out and do whatever I want. When they would ask me where Im going, they would tell me if they deemed it inessential and advise me not to go, but they knew they couldnt actually stop me.
Essentially, because i dont have an entire apartment to myself (though, in hindsight, i should have rented one on Airbnb for the period), I was forced to stay at the quarantine hotel, but in reality it seems that the self-monitoring period is essentially just the same as leaving quarantine entirely. I think i was just unlucky to have such a shitty quarantine hotel full of busbybodies.
