(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Public Opinion on Local Epidemic Outbreak in Taiwan: Authorities are proud to cause catastrophe
China News Service Taipei on May 15th, the radio authority "Pandemic Epidemic Command Center" announced on the 15th that there were 180 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia.
From the 11th to the 15th of this month, 245 new local cases have been added throughout Taiwan.
Some Taiwanese media pointed out that after the local epidemic broke out, the authorities were rushing to deal with the situation, reflecting the rough and loose anti-epidemic model before. This is entirely due to the pride and complacency of the authorities.
According to reports from Taiwanese media such as the Central News Agency, United News Network, and China Times News, among the newly confirmed local cases, there are both children under five years old and elderly people over eighty years old, with 89 cases in Taipei City and Xinxin District. There are 75 cases in North City, 6 cases in Changhua County, 4 cases each in Yilan County and Taoyuan City, and 1 case each in Taichung City and Keelung City. Related epidemic investigations are ongoing.
The command center stated that as of the 14th, 174 people were hospitalized, of which 12 were critically ill patients, including 6 were admitted to the intensive care unit, 4 were on respirators, and the most severe one was on ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation).
In the junior high school exam that was being conducted that day, 3 candidates were also diagnosed.
Affected by the epidemic, leisure and entertainment venues in Taiwan were closed, and Taipei and New Taipei adjusted their epidemic prevention alert levels to level 3 to 28.
The remaining counties and cities have also announced that they have entered the "quasi-three level" alert.
Outlying islands such as Kinmen and Matsu, public servants are prohibited from going to Taiwan's main island for business trips.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic last year, the DPP authorities have called themselves "model students in epidemic prevention". Now the outbreak of the local epidemic has caused public opinion on the island to question the DPP authorities' negligence in fighting the epidemic.
The China Times editorial stated that the outbreak was not known from preventive testing, but was discovered by doctors. The chain of transmission of the epidemic may be hidden in the community for a long time.
Moreover, most of the cases discovered in Taiwan in the past few days are cases of unknown source of infection, which is the inevitable result of negligence or even rejection of testing.
The editorial stated that Taiwan's epidemic prevention is far more slack than neighboring regions, but it has more "double standards" and "political leadership."
From the Taoyuan Hospital incident to the gathering of China Airlines, they are all lessons from the negligence of the authorities.
The authorities should get rid of arrogant attitudes and rough styles in epidemic prevention, otherwise it will become more and more difficult to deal with out-of-control situations.
Taiwan’s "Economic Daily" editorial also pointed out that the authorities are still inadequate in epidemic prevention, especially in vaccine research and development, procurement, vaccination and other supporting measures. Not only did they fail to keep up with the progress of other regions, and the information was not transparent enough; in addition, the authorities and other counties The pace of epidemic prevention is often different, and this is what the authorities need to reflect on.
(Finish)