How Taiwan Stayed Open During The Pandemic

[n00bie]

I know a lot of people here have their opinions about how countries should handle a pandemic. This thread isn't about who's right and who's wrong. What I've learned during this experience is everyone has their own beliefs and nothing can change that. Instead of pickering about who's right and who's wrong, we should be thinking about what we should be doing in the next pandemic. I really do believe this will happen again within our lifetime.

Here's a video about how Taiwan was able to actually stay open throughout the pandemic.

https://youtu.be/0fhaEIlGux4

In my mind, that is the definition of freedom, however it came at a cost.

They have a central healthcare system that tracks where you've been, what your health situation is etc. At the beginning of the pandemic they seperated the country into 2 groups. Low risk and high risk. The low risk people were just instructed to wear a mask, while the high risk people were quarantined for 2 weeks.

Do you guys think this strategy would work in the West? Also with people coming into the country, they were forced into quarantine hotels for 2 weeks, and their cell phones were tracked to make sure they never left the hotels. Do you guys think that would be something the people here would accept?

Me personally I'd be ok with being tracked and quarantined for 2 weeks if that means the whole country was able to stay opened..but I know some people here would probably call me a sheep.

Just wondering what everyones thoughts were about Taiwan's strategy.. and if we could adopt this in the next pandemic.

[warriorfan]

99.9%

[n00bie]

99.9%

Repeating 99.9% isn't going to prevent a lockdown in the next pandemic.

Also, who knows if the next virus will have a survival rate of 99.9%?

[SouBeachTalents]

0% chance that would ever be tolerated in the western world, esp the U.S.

[n00bie]

0% chance that would ever be tolerated in the western world, esp the U.S.

What do you think would be the main issues? The tracking of cell phones or the centralized digital database of healthcare?

I mean, I'd gladly let the govt track my cell phone if that meant my city gets to stay opened all year. I'd actually be extemely surprised if they don't do that already.

[j3lademaster]

What do you think would be the main issues? The tracking of cell phones or the centralized digital database of healthcare?

I mean, I'd gladly let the govt track my cell phone if that meant my city gets to stay opened all year. I'd actually be extemely surprised if they don't do that already.

Well, we have climate change denialists still, so there's that. Too many people in this country deny science. It's absolutely crazy. Then you have the flatearthers who... i'm still not sure if they're serious or just seeking attention.

We have a large chunk of the population who still either think Covid's a hoax or 'just the flu'. No way they'd go for this.

[Manny98]

What do you think would be the main issues? The tracking of cell phones or the centralized digital database of healthcare?

I mean, I'd gladly let the govt track my cell phone if that meant my city gets to stay opened all year. I'd actually be extemely surprised if they don't do that already.

This is where the issue starts

The government being able to track your every activity shouldn't be a requirement in order to have basic human liberty's

[FKAri]

What do you think would be the main issues? The tracking of cell phones or the centralized digital database of healthcare?

I mean, I'd gladly let the govt track my cell phone if that meant my city gets to stay opened all year. I'd actually be extemely surprised if they don't do that already.

Let? They already do and have been since well before the pandemic.

This is where the issue starts

The government being able to track your every activity shouldn't be a requirement in order to have basic human liberty's

Liberty or privacy? Privacy is incompatible with modern technology. Liberty means different things to different people.

[keep-itreal]

99.9%

[FKAri]

99.9%

And what's the vaccine survival rate?

[n00bie]

This is where the issue starts

The government being able to track your every activity shouldn't be a requirement in order to have basic human liberty's

I understand that but lets he real. They already have the ability to track us if they suspect a crime has been committed.

Question is, as citizens why do we care if they can track us if we have nothing to hide?

[n00bie]

99.9%

Again. Repeating 99.9% non stop isn't going to stop a future lockdown. Also, you don't know if the next pandemic will have the same survival rates.

Point of this thread is to find ways to avoid future lockdowns.

[MrFonzworth]

Not a country.

[n00bie]

Not a country.

Because the CCP says its not? It operates like its own country.

[keep-itreal]

Again. Repeating 99.9% non stop isn't going to stop a future lockdown. Also, you don't know if the next pandemic will have the same survival rates.

Point of this thread is to find ways to avoid future lockdowns.

Read what you posted and realize just how stupid you sound.

Full lockdown over a virus with 99.9% survival rate? Did you ever wonder just how ****ing dumb this is? Of course not you braindead sheep