On May 27, the number of new confirmed cases in Taiwan reached 94,855, with 126 deaths. As of now, more than 2 million people have been diagnosed in Taiwan, accounting for one-tenth of the total population of Taiwan.
What is the concept of nearly 100,000 people a day? You must know that the United States has a population base that is about 15 times that of Taiwan, and the number of new additions per day is only a little over 10,000, while the daily increase of 100,000 people in Taiwan directly pushes Taiwan to the world's number one daily increase a location.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adjusted the risk level of the epidemic in Taiwan to the highest level of "third level", and is included in the list of "high-risk countries and regions".
Didn’t 1450 in Taiwan keep shouting “Taiwan epidemic prevention Nanbowan”? This time they really went "Nanbo Bay".
So, how did Taiwan, the former "top student in epidemic prevention", fall to this point?
1 Schrödinger's epidemic prevention
Since the epidemic in Taiwan, it has been taking a completely different path from the mainland or the West: Schrödinger's epidemic prevention.
Simply put, it is the real epidemic situation in Taiwan, which is always in the box, and if you don’t lift the lid, you will never know how the epidemic situation in Taiwan is.
Schrödinger’s cat
In the beginning, the epidemic prevention and control measures in Taiwan were very fast. Chartered flights for Taiwanese businessmen to return to Taiwan for the New Year were immediately stopped, and many Taiwanese businessmen were unable to return to Taiwan.
After protests from relevant people, it had to be changed to only Taiwanese nationals who can return to Taiwan. Mainland spouses and children who do not have Taiwan identity, as well as mainlanders studying and working in Taiwan, are all prohibited from entering Taiwan.
But Taiwan is busy banning mainlanders, but all flights from Europe and the United States are given green light. As a result, the epidemic has developed to March, and the number of confirmed cases in Taiwan has reached 306, and almost all of them are from Europe and the United States and have a history of travel to Europe and the United States. Taiwanese. As a result, it was criticized as "Strictly guard against mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, but indulge in Europe, America and Japan. This is the end of double standards."
The authorities in the Taiwan region, who were relieved, began to "fix the loopholes" belatedly. All people entering the Taiwan region will be checked into isolation hotels or centralized isolation centers, and they cannot be isolated at home.
But here comes the interesting one, entry quarantine is quarantine, but nucleic acid testing is not done , after the quarantine is over, they are released, isn’t that funny?
Not to mention that the incubation period of the new coronavirus is very long, even if the disease does not occur during the quarantine period, it may be asymptomatic infected people , and they are also contagious.
However, the authorities in Taiwan insist on not performing universal screening. Chen Shizhong, commander of the "Central Epidemic Command Center", also explained that from the experience of Philippine universal screening, there will still be people who miss the screening, "so if screening is used instead of quarantine It is absolutely impossible."
Not only are there no general screenings for those who enter the country, but they are also not screened for the general public. Once a confirmed case is found, they will pretend to find a few close contacts and test them. The conclusion is that no transmission chain has been formed and everything will be fine.
From January to July 2020, Taiwan only did more than 70,000 nucleic acid screenings, which is not as much as a county in mainland China does in a day. It has been at the level of 429 cases for dozens of days, and the number of can be described as very beautiful.
But there are so many asymptomatic infections, I am afraid that there has been hidden transmission. Taiwan has not been screened from beginning to end, and the number of epidemics has always been 429. Do you believe it?
But the DPP authorities really believed it, and they have always regarded themselves as "top students in epidemic prevention". Chen Chien-jen, a senior official of the Taiwan authorities, has been boasting about his "three-zero" epidemic prevention performance in video conferences with Johns Hopkins University in the United States , That is: zero death rate, zero community infection, zero overseas emigration, and also said that "the Taiwan model is the most effective model in the world."
The epidemic prevention has also become an opportunity for the Taiwan authorities to "use the epidemic to seek independence". In the first half of 2020, we will see the Taiwan region jumping up and down, arranging cyber army to besiege WHO leaders, and spending money to lobby the United States Nearly 300 congressmen jointly proposed to enter the WHO through Taiwan, and spent money on the media to advertise "Taiwan's epidemic prevention in Nanbowan" and TAIWAN CAN HELP. In fact, they are all for joining the WHO to create momentum.
When the epidemic involves politics, then epidemic prevention is not a scientific issue, but a political issue. The real needs of people's livelihood will no longer be the main choice of the Taiwan authorities. So until now, the Taiwan region has not dared to do a comprehensive nucleic acid screening, for fear that a general screening will break the myth of "top students in epidemic prevention" in Taiwan. not only does not censor himself, but also kills him and prevents others from censoring. For example, in Kinmen, Matsu, and Penghu, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the Taiwan area, a screening station was set up successively, but the DPP authorities were furious and "revoked the announcement of illegal punishment in accordance with the law to maintain the legal system"! Screening stations were forcibly dismantled. Changhua County once tested an American teenager who came to Taiwan after quarantine, and was found to be an asymptomatic infected person. This practice is understandable, but Chen Shizhong accused Changhua County of violating the current "Testing only when symptomatic" "'s policy also ordered an investigation of the Changhua County Health Bureau. can you believe it? This reasonable and effective epidemic prevention measure, which has been repeatedly verified by countries all over the world, is actually illegal in Taiwan! So what anti-epidemic measures in Taiwan are not illegal? The Taiwan authorities not only do not conduct universal screening at the government level, but even restrict ordinary people from doing nucleic acid testing. We all remember that in the early days of the epidemic, nucleic acid cost 200 RMB, and then the price became lower and lower, until now it has been reduced to 3.5 RMB, and even many places offer free screening on a large scale. But what about Taiwan? At the beginning, it costs 7,000 Taiwan dollars, which is 2,000 yuan less than RMB! After the price is reduced now, it costs NT$4,000, or more than RMB 1,000. Such an expensive nucleic acid test, who has nothing to do? Unless there is a mandatory requirement for people leaving the country, no one will do nucleic acid by themselves. But not doing nucleic acid does not mean that there is no disease. In 2021, Japanese female students, Thai foreign workers, Japanese engineers, and Taiwanese women entered other countries from Taiwan and were tested for the novel coronavirus. However, in the face of the accusation of exporting the epidemic, the DPP authorities have repeatedly quibbled that "the exported cases viral load is lower than the standard in Taiwan", are not contagious, "the detection methods of the imported place are not good", false positives to conceal the fact that a large-scale infection has occurred. The authorities of the Democratic Progressive Party bought social operations and medical resources from collapse at the cost of human lives. This approach, even Europe and the United States can’t do it, so this kind of zz11 Unique characteristics of Taiwan.
But this kind of epidemic prevention method is only effective when the infection rate of the new coronavirus is not so high and the death rate is not so terrible. After all, if the sudden onset and death like plague and Spanish flu, then no one can pretend to be confused Even if the DPP authorities cover it up again, the people will not be able to stand it. With the arrival of
and other delta strain with higher transmissibility and mortality, Taiwan has also broken its defenses. The number of cases has risen to hundreds, with a maximum of 700 cases a day, and the death toll has also risen sharply.
But it is still secretive about this, and the term "corrected regression" was invented. What does
correction regression mean? In the beginning, it was due to the statistics and other problems that occurred in various countries due to various reasons. Some figures were not included in the statistics, and the results were made up in one go in the following days.
But in Taiwan, this concept has been played out.
PCR testing in Taiwan does not produce results within 24 hours or even seven or eight hours like nucleic acid testing in mainland China, but takes 3 days to get the results. Obviously this is not a technical problem, but a deliberate effort by For that.
Chen Shih-chung’s explanation is that the detection capacity in Taiwan is insufficient. In the past, it could only detect a few thousand a day, but now it can detect tens of thousands a day, causing a “traffic jam”. "Corrected regression" data.
What is the benefit of doing this? It is possible to artificially control the number of new additions on the day, so as not to embarrass the epidemic prevention department.
Suppose the case number was 1,000 the day before yesterday, 2,000 yesterday, and 3,000 today, then the data trend chart is very ugly, so in today’s 3,000 data, as long as it is PCR done two days ago, it will be counted as the correction regression of the previous two days In this way, the number of new additions today has become more than 1,000, and the data is much better.
This method baffles the media from all over the world, and they can’t even find an accurate word to translate this concept. In the end, Bloomberg can only use “Data revision”, but it can’t really reflect the true meaning of this word.
But this practice of mixing today's new figures with yesterday, the day before yesterday, or even longer ago directly makes the local epidemic statistics lose their statistical significance. It is flat or even declining; if the statistics are based on "corrected regression", which day should the value of the corrected regression be placed in the previous day?
So Hopkins University directly ignored this "corrected regression", and simply put this number in the new data of the day for statistics.
Although the "correction and regression" is funny, it is of great political significance to the DPP authorities.
Facing the public's doubts about the ineffectiveness of epidemic prevention, Chen Shizhong took out a chart, Look, the growth of the epidemic in Taiwan is very flat, which fully proves that the epidemic prevention work is very effective!
Relying on these tricks, the local epidemic has been boring until the beginning of this year, and finally it can’t be bored anymore. Because of the strong infectivity of Amicron , Taiwan’s past measures to deal with the old strains and Delta strains are not enough No matter how effective it is, the pressure can no longer be suppressed, resulting in a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic—
Throughout May, the daily increase in Taiwan has directly climbed from 20,000 to 100,000, and a total of 2 million people have been infected. In the five days at the end of May, 611 people died in Taiwan. According to the model calculation of the Global Health Research Center of the University of Washington, the actual number of infections in Taiwan can reach about 8 million.
In addition to ordinary people, many celebrities in Taiwan have also been infected with the new crown virus. Zeng Zhiwei 's daughter Zeng Baoyi, "Golden Song Queen" Peng Jiahui, creative talent Cai Jianya are also infected with the virus , even the son and daughter of "Taipei Mayor" Ke Wenzhe have also been diagnosed.
However, the authorities in the Taiwan region still did not carry out general nucleic acid screening, and instead began to restrict public opinion in various ways.
In fact, from the beginning of the epidemic, the DPP authorities have used the suppression of public opinion as a coup to control the society, stipulating that "unauthorized release of epidemic news, regardless of whether it is true or false, will be punished by the law, with a maximum fine of 3 million Taiwan dollars" or a term of less than 3 years Prison and Detention".
Recently Taiwanese artist Guo Yanjun shared a chat record with medical friends on Facebook, saying that some doctors and nurses have not rested since April 5, but children and patients are getting worse and worse. "Seeing (how many) children Just go (go) like this."
But the problem is that from April 5th to 14th this year, the number of moderately and severely ill children in Taiwan was zero!
Who the hell is lying? This can be seen from the panic of the DPP authorities. The DPP authorities stated that similar content has obvious traces of operations by similar groups, and they will be "responsible and investigated." The epidemic command center also said that it will further clarify whether someone is spreading false information.
As a result, the local people were annoyed by this, and they left messages on the Internet, "Many children are gone!" Do you want to fine him 3 million first?" "Since the outbreak until today, I have been protecting myself and not causing trouble to others, but I am troubled by epidemic prevention." "Vaccines can be lacking, and rapid screening can be lacking. But children's vaccines are now available. Just fight, stop boasting about epidemic prevention.”
and even Changhua County CouncilThe chairman of the meeting, Xie Dianlin, even shouted 31 times, "Many children have left", and Su Zhenchang, "We have to do it together."
It seems that under the Omicron wave, it is finally time to lift the lid on the Schrödinger-style epidemic prevention in Taiwan. Why does
2 fail?
If you look at the previous show operations in Taiwan, you will find that this Schrödinger-style fight against the epidemic in Taiwan is actually a matter of time before the outbreak of the epidemic.
The first reason is naturally that the Taiwan authorities are incompetent and lack social governance capabilities.
Taiwan authorities do not have modern social management capabilities and lack basic scientific management capabilities. Many things do not consider the interests of the people at all, but consider issues from the political and party interests.
For example, 2020's "Mask Rebellion" can explain the problem very well.
Many people may remember that at the beginning of the epidemic in Wuhan, Taiwan immediately stopped exporting masks to the mainland, which chilled many people.
Su Zhenchang, head of the administrative agency, explained that "to ensure the supply of local goods is safe", which is actually the same as Trump's "Americans first" strategy, which is to please the locals and win votes.
But who would have thought that Su Zhenchang dug a hole for himself. According to Su Zhenchang, there are 45 million masks in stock in Taiwan, with a daily output of 2.44 million. Is Su Zhenchang's math bad? I thought 45 million sounds like a lot, enough for people in Taiwan, but I forgot that the population of Taiwan is 23 million! Calculated on the basis of one mask per day, the stock will be gone in two days!
As a result, Su Zhenchang didn’t say it’s okay, but when he said it, all the people in Taiwan panicked, and a “mask chaos” broke out across the island. A large number of people began to rush to buy and even hoard masks. The stock of masks in Taiwan was gone in a day!
what about this? There is no other way, just bite the bullet and help Su Zhenchang wipe his ass!
First, the purchase of is restricted. People need to register their ID card numbers. Those with odd numbers in their ID cards can buy them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and those with even numbers can buy them on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Each person can only buy two tablets a week. Moreover, the only pharmacy that can sell masks has a limit of 400 pieces a day. Many people started running to queue in the early morning, but 400 pieces were not enough, and most people had to return empty-handed.
then advocated not wearing masks. In late January, the Taiwan authorities required that masks "should be replaced daily" and "if damaged or soiled, they should be replaced immediately." But on February 1st, the Taiwan authorities advocated that "healthy people do not need to wear masks" "unless you are sick". What if the
mask is not enough? Taiwan has come up with a new idea, uses a rice cooker to steam masks to sterilize them, so that the masks can be reused! Chen Shizhong also specially appeared on TV, teaching people how to steam masks with a rice cooker.
But your rice cooker steamed the mask, can you still cook with confidence?
But the magic is that under such a shortage of masks, Taiwan can actually provide 100,000 masks to the United States every week, and donate 100,000 N95 masks to Australia to fight against the air pollution caused by forest fires. Just to please the West.
However, Taiwan’s mask production capacity can’t keep up with demand. In fact, Taiwan imported 398 million masks from the mainland in 2019, accounting for 92% of all imported masks. Taiwan doesn’t have much capacity for self-produced masks.
After the epidemic in the mainland improved, Taiwan should have expanded imports to meet market demand, but the DPP wanted to ban the import of masks from the mainland.
Some importers bought masks from mainland China for sale, but they were seized by the DPP authorities, requiring Taiwanese manufacturers to print "MIT (Made in Taiwan)" and "MD (Medical)" double stamps on the masks produced in Taiwan, otherwise they will not Selling is allowed.
Until now, Taiwan has not completely emerged from the "mask chaos". With the daily production of 5.5 billion masks in the mainland, it is unbelievable that Taiwan will be short of masks.
The second reason is Taiwan's vaccination too late and the immune barrier incomplete.
2020 is the mask chaos, and 2021 is the "vaccine chaos".
Before May 2021, the Taiwan region was obsessed with the boast of being a "top student in epidemic prevention". After months of vaccinations all over the world, they didn't pay much attention to vaccinations, so they didn't bother to make vaccines. When the Delta epidemic broke out in May 2021, it was discovered in Taiwan that the vaccination rate was less than 2%!
Then the anxious Taiwan authorities began to look for vaccines everywhere, and the first thing ruled out was the mainland Sinovac vaccine.
then looked for the WHO COVAX plan, but because Taiwan is not a member of the WHO, when the COVAX plan is running at full capacity, it is naturally impossible to get vaccines prior to other member states.
searched around, and only Japan donated 500,000 doses of vaccines to Taiwan. Tsai Ing-wen was so moved that she quickly expressed her gratitude in Japanese.
But take a look, isn't this the AstraZeneca adenovirus vector AZ vaccine that Japan stopped inoculating? The vaccine has been shown to cause blood clots, which have killed many people.
But because the vaccine was given by the Japanese, the authorities in the Taiwan area still forced the people to get the vaccine that the Japanese didn’t want. As a result, about 10 days after the vaccination, more than 60 people died of the vaccination one after another.
Taiwan authorities saw that this was not working, so they went to the German company BioNTech to buy BNT vaccine.
BioNTech company promised to sell vaccines, but asked the authorities in Taiwan to discuss with Shanghai Fosun, because on March 13, 2021, Shanghai Fosun Pharma signed a formal agency agreement with BioNTech and got the vaccine from Greater China ( Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) exclusive agency, 4 days earlier than Pfizer .
As a result, the DPP authorities are entangled. In this regard, the DPP authorities plan to buy Fosun vaccines in a low-key manner, and then say that they bought them from GermanyYes, in this regard, Lin Quan, the former "Executive President" of Taiwan, announced that his "Dongyang Pharmaceutical" has obtained the "Taiwan Agency" of BioNTech vaccines, and bought 3,000 vaccines. This purchase of vaccines is also regarded as It is "Green Camp Achievements".
But BioNTech soon denied this statement, saying that Toyo Pharmaceutical had talked with Shanghai Fosun, and that BioNTech was only shipping to Taiwan according to Fosun's order, and the entire Taiwan region was blown up.
Taiwan authorities then went to ask Pfizer, but Pfizer also said it was very difficult, because Pfizer’s agency contract also signed with BioNTech, Pfizer has agency contracts in regions other than Greater China, Germany and Turkey , No matter how much Pfizer wants to sell, it can't make money.
So Pfizer came up with another idea, first to buy the vaccine from Fosun, and then sell it to Taiwan at 9 times the price, but this plan was quickly exposed by the media, and the contract was aborted.
The DPP authorities have started hyping "chips for vaccines" again, but the two are not comparable at all. The lack of chips means that some cars will be produced less, but the lack of vaccines is really a terrible thing, so the DPP has no reason at all. With such a whimsical idea by the authorities, the matter will be left alone.
Later, the mainland really couldn’t see it. Based on the principle of saving lives, it agreed to let Guo Taiming personally come forward to find Shanghai Fosun to buy vaccines, and then donate them to Taiwan in the form of corporate donations.
It was already August when Taiwan began to vaccinate on a large scale.
After more than half a year, people in Taiwan have had enough. After BioNTech arrived in Taiwan, they flocked to get vaccinated. Coupled with Taiwan's local "high-end" vaccinations, the vaccination rate of the first, second and third shots in Taiwan has reached In May of this year, they reached 86.94%, 81.41% and 65.27% respectively.
It is said that the vaccination rate is not low, but the strange thing is that Taiwan has still become the epicenter of this round of epidemic!
Calculated from the infection rate, as of May 26, the number of new infections per million people in Taiwan was 23,882. What about the United States? 2237 people, the difference between the two is 10.7 times.
Looking at the number of deaths, also as of May 26, the number of deaths in Taiwan has reached an average of 2.5 deaths per million people, more than double the 1.08 in the United States.
What’s even more strange is that there is another characteristic of this epidemic in Taiwan: patients died quickly after infection , for example, after being diagnosed, 18.4% died within one day and 13.7% died the next day ; Even 8.9% were diagnosed after death.
This is obviously unscientific, why is it like this?
First of all, there may be unvaccinated people in Taiwan. There are still 15% of the people in Taiwan who have never been vaccinated, about 3.75 million people, most of them are the elderly and children, so the infection rate and death rate of children in Taiwan are particularly high this time.
As of May 26, a total of 168,227 students from schools at all levelsinfection, accounting for one-tenth of the total number of infections in Taiwan.
Taiwan is different from the mainland. The mainland has started to vaccinate minors over 3 years old early, but Taiwan has not started it for a long time. Therefore, children in Taiwan have no resistance to such a rampant epidemic. And this time Taiwan also inexplicably appeared complications of encephalitis caused by the new crown.
A total of 15 children have been diagnosed with severe cases of new coronary pneumonia on the island, 7 of whom developed encephalitis, and there have been 5 concurrent deaths of encephalitis.
Today, the death rate of children in Taiwan is 8-10 times that of Japan and South Korea, and it is the most serious area in the world. According to the model of the United States, pediatric medical experts estimate that in this wave of epidemics, 320 to 840 children in Taiwan will die ......
So many children died, it is unacceptable anywhere, and the DPP authorities did not start vaccinating children until the end of May, but it was too late.
Secondly, I may be a little bit terrified, Do Taiwan’s vaccines have a protective effect?
It is reasonable to say that although the Omicron strain has the characteristics of breakthrough infection, from a global perspective, the population and regions with higher vaccination rates are still less likely to be infected and have lower mortality rates.
But why does Taiwan have both high infection rates and high death rates? Some people set their sights on Taiwan's vaccines. You know, Taiwan not only received the BNT vaccine, but the Taiwan authorities also promoted their own "high-end" vaccine.
You read that right, the name of their vaccine is "high-end", and it has not even finished the third phase of the trial, and it is directly marketed to the common people. As a result, just two days after the trial, 4 cases of sudden death occurred.
The funniest thing is a green camp writer Lu Zhijun , who posted on Facebook while getting a "high-end" vaccine, saying that "high-end is the most effective and safest". As a result, he died suddenly that night after returning home after playing high-end games.
Sudden deaths occurred in a row, but the DPP authorities did not stop administering "high-end" vaccines, but instead increased the intensity of vaccinations. As a result, due to management chaos and negligence, there were many feathers everywhere. As a result, the second dose became "high-end". Some people were directly injected with the undiluted vaccine stock solution, which should have been diluted into 6 servings...
From March 2021 to March 2022 , the number of people who have died from vaccination in Taiwan has reached 1,400, which is even more than the number of people who died from the new crown virus! Such a bizarre incident happened in Taiwan, which claims to be a "top student in epidemic prevention"!
So many people died, so how about the protection of "high-end" vaccines? Once a Taiwanese Internet celebrity went to the hospital for an IgG value test after being vaccinated with a "high-end" vaccine. The result was that the IgG value was 35.4AU/mL, and the antibody value was low. As for how much antibody should be there after the vaccine.
The "Ministry of Health and Welfare", "Food and Drug Administration" and "high-end" companies in Taiwan are hesitant to say anything. Zhao Shaokang, a Taiwanese media person, directly said that "high-end" vaccines are effective against the "Alpha" variant of new coronary pneumonia No protection at all, let alone " delta (Delta)" mutant strain.
So until now, the "high-end" vaccines have not been certified by the WHO, that is to say, When Taiwanese who have received "high-end" vaccines enter other countries, their countries do not recognize them的接种记录，只能回去重新打疫苗。
更有意思的是，2022年的这次疫情爆发时，台湾地区当局公布的死亡和感染数字，只标明了接种数，却没有标明品种。
这Is it covering up something? Many people wonder if the "high-end" vaccine has no protective power at all, which leads to the high infection rate and death rate?
The third reason is that the DPP authorities completely regard epidemic prevention as a business Do it, rather than sincerely prevent the epidemic.
Why do the Taiwan authorities favor the "high-end" vaccines so much? The reason is simple. Chen Canjian, the general manager of "high-end" vaccines, is a big political donor to the green camp. His political donations spread all over the green camp, As far as joining the party is concerned, eating people’s mouths is soft and hands are short, which is nothing more than taking advantage of the epidemic to take care of their financial backers.
So even when the vaccine is most scarce, the DPP authorities are unwilling to release too many imported vaccines, even European and American vaccines If people buy it as a private person, they have to face many obstacles from the DPP authorities. In fact, they are afraid of robbing the market of "high-end" vaccines. All the assessments of vaccine experiments, audits, mass production, etc. were completely flattened due to political interference. In the end, "high-end" became the only one in the world where the second phase of the experiment was not completed, and the third phase of the experiment was directly skipped, and it was banned by the authorities in 2021 The mass-produced "privileged vaccine" was approved on August 23.
After the "high-end" vaccine was launched, everyone did not believe in this vaccine, and no one was willing to take it. As a result, the DPP authorities forced it. Officers and soldiers of the Taiwan military can and can only get "high-end" vaccines: For example, Taiwan's teacher groups require vaccinations before school starts in September, otherwise they can only have regular nucleic acid tests at their own expense, and at that time only "high-end" vaccines can be used.
in the civilian Under the escort of the Progressive Party authorities, the "high-end" epidemic Miao Company has made a lot of money, and the stock price of started to rise from 106 yuan on February 1, 2021, and once rose to 417 yuan per share, a quadrupling!
And every operation of the DPP authorities coincides with the rise and fall of the stock prices of "high-end" vaccine companies. To 248 yuan. And when the DPP authorities came forward to coordinate overseas certification of "high-end" vaccines, the stock price climbed to 290 yuan.
Taiwanese stock analyst hit the nail on the head: "Specific people are those who accurately grasp the news of the policy, and the combination of politics and business can make such a sensation."
The "vaccine chaos" has just subsided, and Taiwan has fallen into the "quick screening chaos".
In mid-April this year, the Taiwan authorities launched the "New Taiwan Model" response, the main direction is "clearing severe illnesses and controlling mild illnesses", which is equivalent to the Taiwan version of the lying down strategy.
After the relaxation of prevention and control, the epidemic situation in Taiwan became more serious, and the people on the island could only try to save themselves. Rapid screening reagents became a rigid demand for a while, and became a profit-making tool for the DPP authorities.
Taiwan’s rapid test reagents were once five times more expensive than the international average price, and now a kit costs NT$100, equivalent to RMB 22. However, it is still five times more expensive than in mainland China, where a box of 10 doses is only more than 50 yuan.
Taiwanese media reported that in Taoyuan City controlled by the Democratic Progressive Party, the purchase price of the test kit was only NT$59, but it was sold for NT$100, which almost doubled the profit.
kits are not only expensive, but also not enough, the Taiwan authorities have launched a purchase restriction order, and each pharmacy only distributes 78 packs of quick screening reagents every day, and the people on the island can only get up early and wait in long queues, and go to 20 or 30 pharmacies. Rapid screening reagents that can be grabbed. A Taiwanese netizen lamented: "The past two years have been like a nightmare, and we keep queuing up."
So the 100,000 new cases announced every day is not the real number of new infections, Because many people who cannot buy reagents simply don’t screen quickly.
At this time, the mainland expressed its willingness to donate 10 million rapid screening reagents. These reagents have been exported to Europe and the United States in large quantities.
Coincidentally, Chen Canjian, who produces "high-end" vaccines, stood up again at this time, acting as an agent of South Korea's saliva antigen rapid test kit, and obtained the marketing approval from the Taiwan authorities.
Chen Canjian is not the only one who is eyeing the rapid screening cake. Taking Taiwan’s “Roche Rapid Screening” reagent as an example, the distributor is “Niu Er International Biotechnology Co., Ltd.”, and the agent is Cai Chaozheng, a former member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Cai Huanglang brother.
The manufacturer of "Gordon Quick Screening", "Gordon Global Biomedical Company", was formerly "Shunyiwu Food Co., Ltd.", which is a snack bar opened in the food street of Chang Gung Hospital, and has no medical professional qualifications at all. , and then suddenly switched to medical supplies, and won an order for rapid screening reagents of NT$1.65 billion.
There is no trick in the middle? Everyone knows it well.
It’s no wonder that people in Taiwan satirize that they make disaster fortunes from vaccines and rapid screening, which only the DPP and “green friends” can do.
Anyway, politicians take care of green companies, and green companies make money from monopoly and return politicians. This is a perfect chain of interests.
So in the eyes of politicians in Taiwan, what does it matter if people died in Taiwan because of the epidemic? Instead, it is a business opportunity!
The fourth reason is the political manipulation of "ideology in command" by the Taiwan authorities.
Why did the epidemic in Hong Kong ease so quickly? That's because Hong Kong has a huge amount of assistance from the mainland, not only medicine and daily necessities, but also built seven square cabin hospitals for Hong Kong at almost cosmic speed , helping Hong Kong survive the most difficult period.
But what about Taiwan?
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the mainland has expressed its willingness to do its best to assist several times, but the Taiwan authorities are very sensitive. As long as the epidemic prevention materials provided by the mainland, the peopleThe Progressive Party authorities have always resisted and rejected the goodwill from the mainland with various excuses.
Considering the severe epidemic situation in recent years and the impeded personnel exchanges between the two sides of the strait, the DPP authorities transferred those who “have not returned to Taiwan for two years” from their residences to district (township) offices in accordance with “relevant regulations”. This is equivalent to As for "removal of registration", although you can apply for restoration after returning to Taiwan, some rights and interests related to household registration will be affected before restoration, such as labor insurance, health insurance, and even lose the eligibility to vote.
Who is this clause aimed at? The targets are Taiwanese businessmen and compatriots in mainland China. Blue camps make up the majority of this group. If these people are not allowed to vote, wouldn’t the position of the DPP be as stable as Mount Tai?
During the internal epidemic prevention work, the DPP authorities also insist on the "blue-green distinction". For example, Taipei and New Taipei, where the epidemic is the most severe, should have been the focus of epidemic prevention, but don't forget that New Taipei and Taipei are non-DPP members in power. Counties and cities have been targeted by the DPP authorities everywhere, and even the supply of materials has been blocked.
On the contrary, the Taiwan authorities’ bidding for nucleic acid testing and rapid screening reagents is mainly placed in Taoyuan, Kaohsiung, Tainan and other counties and cities governed by the DPP, apparently using the epidemic to attack blue camps. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe lamented that "the Democratic Progressive Party's anti-Ke Wenzhe is higher than anti-virus".
With the DPP authorities in power who put their own interests above the lives of the people, it is not surprising that the epidemic in Taiwan broke out.
Perhaps, the purpose of the DPP was not to prevent the epidemic, but to prevent the mainland. After all, in their eyes, the lives of the people in Taiwan are obviously insignificant compared with their own political correctness. They are using people from Taiwan Blood, dipped in steamed buns to eat.
And the people in Taiwan are also confused, brainwashed and indoctrinated with hatred by the DPP. As a result, various social functions fail, the media will not speak out for the people, experts lose their moral responsibility, scholars lose their social conscience, and the DPP authorities Chaotic epidemic prevention, lack of supplies, people, and medicines, the whole society is helpless in the face of the virus.
3 Epidemic Observation in Taiwan
Taiwan, as a place where the social concept, family concept and national character are completely consistent with the mainland, is a good window and model for observing the epidemic prevention policy.
At present, Taiwan’s current epidemic response strategy has gone bankrupt. After the initial chaos, it will soon be completely flat.
So, after Taiwan lies down, will the epidemic get better? Obviously not.
First of all, Taiwan is not ready to lie down. The vaccination rate is an important reason. What about the unvaccinated people? The DPP authorities did not take any measures. This time so many children died of complications from the new crown because of this.
Secondly, Taiwan’s medical resources are not enough. According to the “New Taiwan Model” in Taiwan, it actually raises the standards for hospitalization and suppresses the medical needs of patients with mild symptoms, so as to prevent medical runs to the greatest extent.
But this is all based on the premise that the epidemic does not break out. If the epidemic breaks out, even if the proportion of severe cases is low, the number will far exceed the medical capabilities of Taiwan.
At present, each nurse in Taiwan takes care of 10 to 20 confirmed patients at the same time, and the doctors and nurses are diagnosed one after another.The dean of the company said bluntly, "It won't be long before the whole unit will have no one to go to work."
The funniest thing is that in the face of public accusations about the collapse of medical resources, Chen Shizhong said that the medical resources have not collapsed. 50%, there is no shortage of medical resources at all.
How did the negative pressure ward have a 50% empty bed rate? In fact, the Taiwan authorities artificially increased the total number of beds from 3,646 to 12,389. In this way, the number of vacant beds looks good.
But when the number of hospital beds has more than tripled, the number of medical staff has not tripled, and the treatment force has not tripled, and Taiwan has no support from the mainland, so the vacant bed rate is just a self-deceiving joke That's all.
In fact, the medical staff in Taiwan are already exhausted, the emergency rooms of major hospitals are overcrowded, and the medical resources are insufficient. died of illness.
The father of the baby boy complained to , "I would like to ask you, can you let us see first, he actually told you that he is in good condition, the doctor looks like this three steps away, you can see Does my son shake (twitch)? Can you see my son roll his eyes?"
Such tragedies abound in Taiwan.
The greater tragedy is that the death rate in Taiwan is extremely high. The fatality rate in other countries has been around 4/10,000, but the fatality rate in Taiwan has reached 1/1,000. This is because the authorities in Taiwan are trying their best to cover up the epidemic figures. result.
In fact, some media compared the death data released by the Taiwan authorities with the data of crematoriums in Taipei and New Taipei, Taiwan, and found that the number of crematoria in Taiwan is 6-7 times the number of deaths from the new crown.
This is actually the result of the scale effect of , even if only 200 people die every day because of the new crown epidemic, the massive number of infected people will definitely prevent patients with other diseases from getting timely treatment, including kidney dialysis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, acute Pancreatitis, etc., the actual death toll will be much higher than the death toll from the new crown.
In addition, Taiwan's economy has also suffered a setback due to the DPP authorities' tossing around.
From 2021, Taiwan will enter a period of soaring prices. In 2021, the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 2.62% year-on-year in December last year, and the annual CPI reached 1.96%, setting a new high in 13 years. And the annual growth rate of 17 items of people's livelihood has also expanded to 3.46%, which is a new high in 39 months.
And this CPI number has also been beautified, because the CPI in Taiwan rose in the second half of last year, and it rose even higher in January this year. Counting the "full year" figure, and removing this year, the total CPI is naturally still good. past.
In the face of public protests against rising prices, the DPP authorities did not increase production, but began to artificially freeze prices, but the problem is that prices are a reflection of insufficient supply. The merchants saw that they lost money by selling at the suppressed price, so they simply stopped selling.
For example, eggs, due to insufficient egg production capacity in Taiwan, the public and restaurant owners can only line up to grab eggs every day, causing a "egg chaos".
Combined with the supply chain crisis brought about by the Russia-Ukraine war, Taiwan is also in trouble , Taiwan’s wheat, oil, and natural gas are largely dependent on Russia, but Taiwan is desperately trying to cooperate with Europe and the United States to “sanction” Russia. Prices of food and energy will inevitably rise, and they will inevitably be transmitted downstream, which will become the beginning of another wave of price rises.
According to statistics, the inflation rate in Taiwan in March has reached a 9.5-year high of 3.27%. rate plus unemployment rate) as high as 6.4%.
This doesn’t matter to rich people, but it’s fatal to low- and middle-income earners—you have to eat when prices rise, you have to educate and raise your children, you have to support the elderly, you can’t live without water, electricity and oil, and your expenses increase , directly depressing consumption desire.
In the raging epidemic, although the DPP authorities no longer restrict commercial activities, the people will spontaneously reduce their out-of-home consumption psychologically in order to protect themselves, which will make the already bleak consumption worse. The industry is unemployed, and many businesses want to cry but have no tears.
But the DPP authorities obviously can’t see all this, and still implement their "New Taiwan Model", going further and further on the road of laying flat and preventing the epidemic. It's just what politicians want.
According to the ideas of the DPP authorities, as long as the outbreak survives, everyone should feel the fullest, and the weak should die, then the medical pressure will be released, normal medical treatment can be restored, and the number of deaths will increase. If it continues to decline, social order will be restored.
This process can be called breaking through the barriers. The only thing to consider now is how many people will be the price of breaking through the barriers. The DPP authorities think that according to the average death rate of 1 in 1,000 in Taiwan, only 20,000 people die in Taiwan. Complete the pass, and then everything will be fine.
But breaking through the level is a very cruel process. For ordinary people, whether they will become the price of breaking through the level depends entirely on their own luck.
Recently, a 2-year-old child in Taiwan got sicker after being infected with the new crown, but the 4 hospitals he contacted couldn’t be admitted due to full clinics. He was not admitted until the fifth hospital, but he still died after admission.
Watching his own child exposed to danger without protection because of the Taiwan authorities' lying flat policy, and finally dying in his arms, who can accept it?
So, looking at the situation in Taiwan, we also understand why the mainland can only be cleared, and cannot lie flat.
If the mainland lies flat, according to the data scale of the number of deaths in Taiwan as a percentage of the total population, it means that nearly 10,000 people die every day, and at the same time, there will be a medical run.
You must know that there are still many rural and underdeveloped areas in mainland China, and their medical conditions are not very good. If the epidemic explodes in underdeveloped areas, the result will be that not only critically ill patients will not be treated, but a large number of medical staff will be infected and rest, and even other It is difficult for patients with diseases to seek medical treatment. Whether they are mild or severe or tumor patients will face life-threatening, directly amplifying the death toll, and even reaching tens of thousands every day.
now knows why there is always a wave of lying flat on the Chinese Internet, right? Only when the mainland lies flat, the data in Taiwan will not be so ugly.
Those who die are not numbers, but living people. When their loved ones are sick and dying, who can calmly think about the problem? Small essays, information calling for help, and information accusing doctors of "doing nothing to save them" will flood in, and public opinion will get out of control.
Don’t forget, Behind the public opinion is the cyber army During the epidemic in Taiwan, no one will make trouble behind their backs, and even the mainland will help. However, if the mainland is flattened, Taiwan's cyber army will definitely spare no effort to create chaos on the mainland's Internet. It is hard to say whether these public opinions will eventually subside under the background of the epidemic.
After the epidemic is flattened, the epidemic will also cause a huge blow to the economy. Factories will shut down, logistics will be interrupted, supply chains will be broken, companies will find it difficult to survive, bankruptcies will drive up unemployment, and the stable situation will be shaken. is a more serious problem.
Therefore, the epidemic situation in Taiwan is a negative example, telling us what can be done, what can’t be done, where the pitfalls are, and where the thunder is, and then follow its own route firmly.
Maybe, after a long time, people in Taiwan will naturally tell which system is better, the mainland or Taiwan.
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