Posted on 11/07/2020 6:52:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Sucks that all of these healthy Taiwanese will be killed when China invaded on January 21st.
Yep, our deaths are just broken eggs for their omelets.
bttt
I have trouble breathing in a mask.
“...an utter lack of crackpot views about masks...”
Another anus passes gas.
COVID or not.
And there, as in Japan and South Korea, COVID death rates as a fraction of the population are much less than not the US, and indeed almost any Western country.
Maybe there’s something about Americans,
Another crackpot remains impervious to evidence.
Paradoxically, Hawaii adopted pretty much the same extreme measures for visitors and is now fighting a surge which I predicted would occur.
Clearly the problem is less about policy and more about biology.
My state just renewed a lockdown for 2 weeks, and it won’t accomplish a damned thing.
Good article post 1
Thanks
Didn’t Taiwan get on this far earlier than others. Think I read on FR that they blew whistle on the WHO/chicom coverup of when wuhan started
Body fat?
I only got past the first couple paragraphs before I was thinking “genetic propensity”
And then I thought of how few cases China is reporting...
Now I wonder if a virus can be developed to attack certain genotypes?
It is partly because Taiwan does not have a population which is obese and also pre-diabetic or diabetic.
Dr Lozano, the Cuban doctor who exposed the efforts of the Texas Board of Pharmacy to prevent filling of HCQ prescriptions, and who is a Trump supporter, referred to cv19 as primarily an American disease due to the above.
Masking imposes no real cost on the overwhelming majority of people, and a significant percentage of people who claim problems are whiners. (Perhaps many American whiners are fat; this is a very small problem in East Asia. Go to Worldometer if you aren’t familiar with the data on COVID there versus in the West..) In East Asia they accept masks without whining, but we don’t
This is surely a part — a little, a lot I can’t say, but a part — of why our COVID issues are worse than in East Asia.
An absolutely empty argument. This is difficult to achieve; way to go.
What you say about weight is correct, but you’re full of caca on masks. They don’t do anything except make unhealthy people even more susceptible to illness.
“You don’t need a lockdown if you can stop the virus getting in in the first place”
Yes. There’s no mystery. Taiwan is an island nation with one major international airport.
They knew about the Wuhan virus in January and cut off all travel from China. They allowed entry in to Taiwan only after two week quarantine in China and then two week quarantine in Taiwan. All entrants to Taiwan were screened for virus and temperature.
All travel from other countries was stopped and the same stringent screening measures were out in place.
Cases in Taiwan were few enough for contact tracing and quarantine which was enforced.
They indeed shut off foreign travel (not just from China, although that’s a big part of the travel to Taiwan) very quickly. All arrivals must quarantine for 2 weeks, and all foreigners from countries judged to have dropped the ball on COVID control (including the US) must be tested at the airport. In addition, Taiwan hasn’t screwed up contact tracing as we have.
Yes, Taiwan has done a spectacular job limiting the spread of COVID-19. Far better than we have. But they have done it by relying on their citizens to do things that Americans are unwilling to do. If you say the benefits of Taiwan-style measures do not justify the costs in terms of liberty that’s an argument I must take seriously. But anyone who says that Taiwan’s rate has nothing to do with their taking epidemic control seriously is delusional.
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