Posted on 05/17/2020 8:50:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Taiwan might be barred from attending the World Health Assembly (WHA) this month and sharing there about the methods it used to successfully battle the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
According to a Johns Hopkins University study in January, Taiwan was expected to be the second most at-risk area outside mainland China for the virus. However, it turned out that Taiwan had one of the most effective responses globally.
Taiwan, which is not a member of the United Nations, has been excluded from the World Health Organization (WHO), a U.N. agency, due to objections from China. The island has not been allowed to take part in the WHA, the decision-making body of WHO, since 2016.
The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote a letter to 55 countries on May 8 to support Taiwan’s WHA bid. The lawmakers stated in their letter that as the world fights the pandemic, it is more important than ever to put global health above politics.
Chen Shih-chung, Taiwan minister of health and welfare, said in a press release: “WHO will truly understand that infectious diseases know no borders, and that no country should be excluded, lest it become a major gap in global health security. WHO should not neglect the contribution to global health security of any nation.”
Taiwan implemented aggressive border quarantine measures to control the epidemic and also increased laboratory testing capacity by a tiered hospital system. In the meantime, Taiwan still has a functioning economy, with the first quarter GDP expanding 1.54 percent over the same period last year.
Taiwan’s battle with the CCP virus began on Dec. 31 last year, when a Taiwan public health official saw that people were chatting on a website forum about a novel pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan.
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Taiwan’s death toll from SARS was 73 in 2003. As of May 4 this year, Taiwan’s death toll from COVID-19 was 6. and she was able to accomplish this WITHOUT A TOTAL LOCKDOWN !
China had a travel embargo in place that prevented mainland Chinese from going to Taiwan. It turns out that dispute was like winning the lottery from Taiwan’s perspective.
The WHO needs reform and if that’s not possible abolish it.
Trump needs to seriously consider official recognition of Taiwan in his second term. Taiwan has been an independent nation for over 70 years now - a whole lifetime. How much more longer are we supposed to deny reality and pretend Taiwan doesn’t exist?
Well, they’re a small island.
They also wear masks. They overcame their early shortage and have now donated ten million+ masks to other countries.
RE: Well, they’re a small island.
Can we compare small islands in the USA to Taiwan then? Say — Hawaii? How did Hawaii fare so far?
Well, for one thing, the two present different mentalities.
I should have written that they’re a small island, AND the people have basic good sense. I don’t think that anyone can accuse them of having a ‘slave’ mentality; but they don’t, as a community, seem to view adherence to common sense guidelines to be interference with their liberty.
Think of how many of them there are, and how closely they are packed together; and yet so few deaths from - or even cases of! - the current disease.
I wonder why that is...
It's now a thing.
I have anecdotal reports telling of drones shouting at people on the beaches on the Big Island. No more than that.
simply hold an international news media conference at the same time as the idiotic less than useless WHO meeting- Have Taiwan announce what they did to beat it- Drowning out the idiotic less than useless WHO meeting- let’s see the WHO prevent that!
Going by deaths per million, Hawaii has done the best of any U.S. state at 12 deaths per million.
Taiwan is 0.3 per million. About 17x the population of Hawaii.
How about the island of Okinawa (pop 1.5 million) Only 143 cases (none is last 16 days) and 6 deaths. What surprised me is Okinawa opened it’s doors for tourists, including thousands from China and many from Taiwan and Korea...And get this...Not one case in any rest home or not one death as they closed all trafic from day one...Are you listening Mr Cuomo?
The WHO seems more interested in scoring social credit with Xi Jinping than actually trying to find a cure. Perhaps, with all the attention they’re getting, they’re not particularly interested in finding a cure.
WHO does not want to offend its paymaster. PERIOD!
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