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Sab's avatar

Hey Angelica,

Thanks for another article about Taiwan’s current situation. Remember that the point of lockdowns are to stop people from passing the coronavirus by restricting gatherings, where it’s easily passed on after extended time with other contacts. Such restrictions on movement provide breathing space for testing, tracing, targeted quarantine/isolation to do the real important work to give Corona nowhere else to go.

“Hard” or “soft”, the goal of lockdowns is to reduce movement in the community and stop the virus being passed on. If it achieves that function at Level 3, why go harder?

As someone else commented, Level 4 should have a full suite of financial support for businesses and workers impacted by the restrictions and COVID-19.

By the way, another piece of advice: get used to monitoring daily case and death numbers for at least a month. 😁

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g16h's avatar

Briefly, yes the current measures are too soft. Covid is spreading as I type this. We should go into a hard lockdown as soon as possible. This is what the numbers are telling us. Good article, Angelica.

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