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Kirk Ericson's avatar

It's very worrisome to hear Taiwan has had a leak. Here in the United States, for the few paying attention, Taiwan is an exemplar of proper government response to Covid. One thing, though. You wrote, "Like in previous breaches that were successfully contained, airline crews was the chink in Taiwan’s COVID armor." I'm a newspaperman and I would never use the word "chink" in a story that included Asians. Are Taiwanese nor aware of the associations with that word? Also, you have a subject-verb error in the "chink" sentence.

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James's avatar

This round is spreading at America speed. Local lockdowns will do nothing. There needs to be a national lockdown.

With an out of control outbreak of COVID, after a near perfect record, and no water and soon, no electricity...Taiwan is facing the trifecta of misery. A summer of hell awaits us. There seems to be no forethought to anything. People fell victim to being irrationally scared of nuclear power and too much reliance on coal/gas and hydro. About the hydro, no water means no running water for hydro. Maybe they should fast-track some desal plants and stop waiting for the randomness of nature to save us. Say we get 10 plants online then the rains and typhoons come. Great. We have back up.

It is easy to look at the West and see how badly they reacted to the pandemic. Well, the same lax snake that strangled them, has just bitten Taiwan in the butt.

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