[Global Times Special Correspondent Zhang Tianxing] "The epidemic cannot be stopped." Taiwan's "News Today" website exclaimed on the 18th.
According to the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, there were 245 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the island that day. This is the fourth consecutive day that Taiwan has more than 100 confirmed cases in a single day.
What is even more worrying is that two deaths were reported that day, which was the first death in Taiwan in recent days.
With the outbreak of the epidemic, all schools at all levels in Taiwan will be suspended from the 19th.
Now, the streets of many cities on the island have become empty. The instant noodles, toilet paper, and eggs in supermarkets have all been sold out, and Taiwan is in serious chaos and powerlessness.
In the face of the severe epidemic situation, the DPP authorities are still engaged in "political anti-epidemic". Taiwan's MAC not only directly rejected the statement of kind help issued by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland China the day before, but even the combination of malicious words caused violent actions on the island. criticism.
Taiwan's "China Times" stated on the 18th that at the time of the outbreak, the ruling party tried every means to obtain epidemic prevention assistance and supplies, but it was too late. How can there be leisure time to curse people or even arrogantly refuse assistance?
"Is it in the eyes of the Cai government that anti-China is more important than the health of the people of Taiwan?"
"It's not surprising that the number of diagnoses in a single day exceeded 1,000"
Taiwan’s "Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center" commander Chen Shizhong announced on the afternoon of the 18th that 245 new confirmed cases were added on the island that day, including 240 local and 5 overseas imported cases.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic on the island on May 13, local confirmed cases have exceeded 1,000.
In this regard, Lin Shibi, a former infection doctor at National Taiwan University Hospital, said: “The peak of the epidemic must have not arrived, and it is not surprising that the number of diagnoses in a single day has exceeded one thousand.” The former “Director of the Department of Health” Yang Zhiliang also said a few days ago: “This wave of epidemic 20 It may reach the peak of 1,000 confirmed diagnoses in a single day on or on the 21st."
It is worth noting that there were two new deaths on the island on the 18th.
One of the deaths was a woman in her 60s. She developed a fever on May 10, sought medical examination on the 14th, and was diagnosed on the 16th. However, she was still rejected by the Taiwan Adventist Hospital and had to go home to wait.
The woman subsequently lost contact with the outside world and was found lying at home one day later. She was sent to the doctor and died that day.
At the news conference on the 18th of the epidemic, Chen Shizhong used "I don't know the situation in Taiwan Adventist Hospital" as a perfunctory case that the confirmed case was rejected by the hospital.
The other death was an 80-year-old man who was hospitalized at Yadong Hospital in New Taipei City.
The hospital confirmed that the old man lived with a confirmed case and died of the disease.
The old man's daughter complained to the media on the 18th that the hospital had no partitions that caused her father to contract the epidemic. "We can only watch him being cremated forcibly."
What is more worrying is that Yadong Hospital has already experienced an outbreak of mass infection in the hospital.
Qiu Guan, vice president of Yadong Hospital, said that 9 people have been diagnosed, "it is already a chain of transmission in the hospital."
The outbreak of the epidemic has ignited the "red light" of the medical system on the island.
Taiwanese media interviewed Ms. Zhang in New Taipei City. Her 50-year-old son was diagnosed on the 16th, but was unable to be sent to the doctor until noon on the 18th. "My son has a fever and can't breathe. Should I wait to die like this?" On the 18th, no help was sought. Ms. Zhang from the door called the New Taipei City Councillor for help. The councilor called the health unit to inquire, but got a reply that "New Taipei City has hundreds of people a day and there is no manpower."
Regarding the life and death of the people, the Taiwan authorities do not care at all.
Taiwan’s "Executive President" Su Zhenchang said on social media on the 18th that most of the infected people have mild symptoms and can recover on their own after recuperation. In order to reserve medical resources for critically ill patients, whether they are diagnosed or have been in contact with confirmed cases , Please stay at home and wait for notification from public health personnel.
Not only the hospitals have insufficient beds, but even the testing facilities are far from enough.
Currently on the island, only a few areas such as Taipei City and New Taipei City have set up fast screening stations in communities with severe epidemics, but these fast screening stations have limited testing capabilities and facilities. For example, the Banqiao District of Taipei has a daily limit of 200 people, starting from 1 p.m. Number plates were issued, and there was a crowd of people lining up at 6 o'clock in the morning.
There are no quick screening stations in many other areas, and people can only conduct tests at their own expense. The cost of testing is as high as NT$4,000 to NT$7,000 (approximately RMB 1,150 to RMB 1,600).
Although only a few hundred people are diagnosed every day, the proportion of positive test results is very high, which is worrying.
The positive rate of screening results in Taipei's Wanhua District is higher than 10%, and some epidemic prevention experts say that the actual infection rate is or higher.
Due to the outbreak of the epidemic, Taiwan’s "Ministry of Education" announced on the 18th that all levels of schools and public and private kindergartens in Taiwan will stop attending classes from the 19th to May 28, and after-school care service centers, tuition classes and educational institutions have also suspended classes. ; Colleges and universities and schools below high school changed to online teaching.
As soon as the news of the suspension of classes came out, many people flocked to the official website of Taiwan's education department to check the news.
But unexpectedly, the official website was directly paralyzed, causing many parents, teachers and students to be unable to find relevant information.
Some netizens complained that the network is paralyzed, coupled with several power outages a week, how can students feel at ease to study online?
The DPP's "political anti-epidemic" was denounced
In the face of a severe epidemic, the DPP authorities are still engaged in "political anti-epidemic".
On the 17th, the spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland China, Zhu Fenglian, said that the majority of Taiwan compatriots are eagerly looking forward to using the mainland vaccine. Get the necessary protection.
Faced with the goodwill of the mainland, the Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan not only directly rejected it on the 17th, but also vilified it, stating that “the other side does not have to be kind. As long as the mainland does not obstruct, we can get more reliable vaccines from the world faster”.
In this regard, the former "legislator" Cai Zhengyuan criticized on the 18th that he was sick, but blamed the neighbors next door for not helping; now the island's epidemic prevention has breached, 100% of which is a mistake in his own policy, "How come there are such shameless people!" It is the worst joke of the year to blame the mainland for obstruction of not being able to buy vaccines.
He said that Taiwan’s Toyo Co. had negotiated with Germany to buy 30 million doses of the vaccine, but because the general agent of the vaccine was Shanghai Fosun Co., Chen Shizhong would not allow imports. “Is this the mainland obstruction? Or is Chen Shizhong obstructing?” Cai Zhengyuan said. I only found out that medical resources were lacking and nothing was prepared. I only had a press conference to report figures. "If this trick is still effective in the mainland, then Taiwan really has no cure."
"China Times" published a comment on the 18th that the MAC's accusation on the mainland is no longer a dead duck, but a careless life.
Chen Shizhong’s "political fight against the epidemic" was completely broken, Taiwan was completely occupied, and local cases had blown out. There are already countless counts, and he has the ability to say no to the vaccine provided by the mainland.
The article said that there are 5 vaccines in the mainland, which have been shot more than 400 million times without major problems. Compatriots on both sides of the strait are of the same species, and the applicability should be higher than that of vaccines developed for white people.
Chen Shizhong has a kind of evidence that the mainland is obstructing Taiwan's purchase of overseas vaccines, and the cover shows that there must be shameful tricks.
On the 18th, Yang Zhenwu, the magistrate of Kinmen County, Taiwan, called on the Taiwan authorities to agree to Kinmen County's acquisition of internationally recognized legal vaccines from the other side.
Faced with these appeals, the Taiwan authorities ignored them.
Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang inspected the epidemic command center on the 18th.
Later, she said on Facebook that she had contacted the island's pharmaceutical company, hoping to supply the first wave of self-produced vaccines by the end of July, and the "representative in the United States" is also actively contacting the United States for the vaccine it will release.
In this regard, some netizens said that currently Taiwan only accepts 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that are not approved by the United States, and they still bought them from the United Kingdom.
"After taking office, Tsai Ing-wen has always claimed that this is the best moment for Taiwan-U.S. relations in 40 years, but apart from selling arms and pigs to Taiwan, what real benefits does Taiwan gain?" The founding veteran and Taiwanese who have withdrawn from the Democratic Progressive Party Lin Zhengjie, chairman of the "China Reunification Promotion Party," said angrily: "The United States will not even sell vaccines to Taiwan. It is a dream to expect the United States to send troops to help prevent Taiwan."
The Kuomintang "legislator" Zheng Liwen questioned that what the people on the island are seeing is the number of confirmed diagnoses multiplied every day, and what they feel is the strong sense of powerlessness and negligence of the authorities.
"When Taiwan is facing such a severe epidemic, is there really no one from the Democratic Progressive Party who needs to come out and take responsibility?"
The DPP’s approval rating plummeted
One of the major reasons for Taiwan's decline from the so-called "model students in epidemic prevention" to "negative teaching materials" is that the Taiwan authorities have consistently rejected general screening under various pretexts.
Lianhe News.com stated that in the past year or so, as long as the outside world mentioned the keywords of general screen, wide screen, and quick screen, they would be attacked by the green camp.
President Chen Shizhong rejected General Screening on the grounds that this would cause the medical system to collapse.
Some experts bluntly said that there were ten community infection incidents in Taiwan early last year. If they were triaged through quick screening at that time, they would definitely not evolve to the situation where they are out of control today.
The article believes that Chen Shizhong did not dare or did not want to be sieved. The real reason is probably that this number will destroy the image of "model students in epidemic prevention" that the Cai authorities have tried so hard to create.
The sudden outbreak of the epidemic also caused the approval rate of the Taiwan authorities to plummet.
May 20th is Tsai Ing-wen's inauguration anniversary.
The latest poll released by TVBS on the 17th showed that Tsai Ing-wen’s satisfaction was 20% lower than when he was re-elected a year ago, and Su Zhenchang’s dissatisfaction increased to 50%.
The results of an online poll on Taiwan’s Yahoo website on the 18th showed that 80.2% of those who were very dissatisfied with the Taiwan authorities were most dissatisfied with the Tsai authorities’ cross-strait, energy, and anti-epidemic policies.
The "United Daily News" published an editorial on the 18th stating that the Cai authorities boasted of "advanced deployment" and have been complacent for more than a year; now that the real alarm sounded, they were immediately beaten back to their original state.
According to the China Times, on the first anniversary of Tsai Ing-wen’s re-election, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the island has soared and the number of vaccines is insufficient, power outages twice a week, and the continued unresolved water shortage problem, Taiwan has ushered in the highest level in history. A harsh challenge. At the time of the outbreak of the epidemic, it is too late for those in power to find ways to obtain epidemic prevention assistance and supplies. How can there be idle time to curse people or even arrogantly refuse assistance? According to the article, Tsai Ing-wen’s five-year rule has caused various problems to continue to erupt internally because power and interests are concentrated in a small number of people, resulting in monopoly and greed; foreign Taiwanese authorities will only tightly favor the United States, Europe and Japan with a low attitude. Full of malice towards the mainland close at hand. It has been proved that this is wrong and dangerous in five years. I advise Tsai Ing-wen to turn back to the shore, otherwise, in the next three years, public opinion will inevitably rebound more and more, and popular sentiment will inevitably become more and more distant!