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>Taiwan is a country of 24 million people and had, on the same date, 440 cases and 7 deaths, or 0.3 per million. With no lockdowns and relatively good weather
by belltaco 6y ago
>Taiwan is a country of 24 million people and had, on the same date, 440 cases and 7 deaths, or 0.3 per million. With no lockdowns and relatively good weather
Wait, what?
Taiwan did take a lot of measures, including punishments for people violating the quarantine, which goes well beyond the shutdown measures he's complaining about.
>Among those early decisive measures was the decision to ban travel from many parts of China, stop cruise ships docking at the island's ports, and introduce strict punishments for anyone found breaching home quarantine orders.
>Couple fined NT$300,000 (USD $10,000) for breaking 14-day home quarantine rule
>Government announced the spread of fake news on epidemic can be fined up to NT$ 3 million (USD $100,000)
So he wants the western world to emulate Taiwan's response, huh?
- monkeydreams 6y ago> So he wants the western world to emulate Taiwan's response, huh? I think he wants to cherry-pick examples to push the narrative that the lockdown's economic impact is far greater than the lives it would have saved.
- lostmsu 6y agoI'd actually vote for implementing Taiwan's approach. The author is nuts of course, thinking Taiwan had no quarantine.