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>Considering it avoided both a mass outbreak Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid? There is a mass outbreak building up right n

>Considering it avoided both a mass outbreak Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid? There is a mass outbreak building up right now. Oh, and the contact tracing you are talking about -- are they going to start contact tracing the thousands of people who have covid now? How is that going to help?

AlchemistCamp 4y ago
> Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid? Yes. It's where I've been from the beginning of the pandemic, all through last year, during the original SARS outbreak in 2002 and most of the years in between. The current wave is more contagious but quite a bit less lethal than the delta outbreak that Taiwan successfully stopped last summer via contact tracing and limited restrictions.
eloisius 4y ago
Sounds like you really have an axe to grind all over this thread. I dare venture that you haven't been following the situation here that closely either. I'm in Taipei right now and have lived here for almost the entire pandemic. The "mass outbreak" was 13k new cases today. The cases are ramping up but hospitalizations and deaths are not. Everyone knows that omicron is not serious, and by all indications, the government is cautiously letting it rip this time. Yesterday they ended the QR code program. They've been continuously reducing quarantine for 'close contacts' of confirmed cases. It's down to 3 days at home quarantine, and then 4 days of self health management, during which you aren't supposed to go to the mall or things like that, but can still go to work. They've also reduced the number of contacts that they trace and which criteria qualify as "close contact." For two years while most of the rest of the world was in turmoil, life was almost normal here. I still went to the gym, went to restaurants, worked in an office, positive GDP growth. Things just carried on, and without a massive body count. And now, that's it's basically a cold, the population is mostly vaccinated, and there is no hope of ever maintaining "COVID-zero" the government is slowly easing restrictions without overloading the health system. Taiwan's COVID response should be hailed as genius, yet you still have blowhards that feel like they were right all along.
unityByFreedom 4y ago
Now this is sensational. I'm in Taiwan and the number of severe cases is very small since the population is vaccinated. The CDC here has been saying Covid is going to come soon since late last year. They hit their vaccine targets and are reducing restrictions. Contact tracing is trending down. They just announced yesterday you don't need to do the QR code or leave contact info at shops anymore. You're only considered a contact of a case if you live together, and even then there is now home quarantine.
jameshush 4y ago
I'm in Taiwan, _and_ currently have COVID (at home quarantining now, feel completely fine). The spike is higher than it's ever been for infections, but hospitalizations and deaths are basically zero. There were two deaths _in the whole country_ today both over 70 years old, vaccinated, with previous complications. Hospital beds are sitting at 30-40% empty. Things are going just fine. Government called up the businesses I'd been to over the last couple of days and got them to take a test and quarantine at home for a couple of days. I'm at home quarantining for 10 days which I would have done anyway. They even sent me a box of snacks, some garbage bags, and extra tests. Honestly I can't think of a better, more reasonable policy, and result than what we're doing right now over here.

AlchemistCamp 4y ago

> Have you been following what is going on in Taiwan in terms of covid? Yes. It's where I've been from the beginning of the pandemic, all through last year, during the original SARS outbreak in 2002 and most of the years in between. The current wave is more contagious but quite a bit less lethal than the delta outbreak that Taiwan successfully stopped last summer via contact tracing and limited restrictions.

eloisius 4y ago

Sounds like you really have an axe to grind all over this thread. I dare venture that you haven't been following the situation here that closely either. I'm in Taipei right now and have lived here for almost the entire pandemic. The "mass outbreak" was 13k new cases today. The cases are ramping up but hospitalizations and deaths are not. Everyone knows that omicron is not serious, and by all indications, the government is cautiously letting it rip this time. Yesterday they ended the QR code program. They've been continuously reducing quarantine for 'close contacts' of confirmed cases. It's down to 3 days at home quarantine, and then 4 days of self health management, during which you aren't supposed to go to the mall or things like that, but can still go to work. They've also reduced the number of contacts that they trace and which criteria qualify as "close contact." For two years while most of the rest of the world was in turmoil, life was almost normal here. I still went to the gym, went to restaurants, worked in an office, positive GDP growth. Things just carried on, and without a massive body count. And now, that's it's basically a cold, the population is mostly vaccinated, and there is no hope of ever maintaining "COVID-zero" the government is slowly easing restrictions without overloading the health system. Taiwan's COVID response should be hailed as genius, yet you still have blowhards that feel like they were right all along.

unityByFreedom 4y ago

Now this is sensational. I'm in Taiwan and the number of severe cases is very small since the population is vaccinated. The CDC here has been saying Covid is going to come soon since late last year. They hit their vaccine targets and are reducing restrictions. Contact tracing is trending down. They just announced yesterday you don't need to do the QR code or leave contact info at shops anymore. You're only considered a contact of a case if you live together, and even then there is now home quarantine.

jameshush 4y ago

I'm in Taiwan, _and_ currently have COVID (at home quarantining now, feel completely fine). The spike is higher than it's ever been for infections, but hospitalizations and deaths are basically zero. There were two deaths _in the whole country_ today both over 70 years old, vaccinated, with previous complications. Hospital beds are sitting at 30-40% empty. Things are going just fine. Government called up the businesses I'd been to over the last couple of days and got them to take a test and quarantine at home for a couple of days. I'm at home quarantining for 10 days which I would have done anyway. They even sent me a box of snacks, some garbage bags, and extra tests. Honestly I can't think of a better, more reasonable policy, and result than what we're doing right now over here.