From queuing to buy masks to queuing to buy quick screening reagents... Taiwan authorities were criticized for profiting from the epidemic

　　China News Service, May 5th

　　Recently, the local epidemic broke out in Taiwan, with nearly 30,000 new cases in a single day.

In the streets and alleys of various places, as long as there is a pharmacy, you can see the sight of people queuing up to buy quick screening reagents, and the helpless expression is written on everyone's face.

The Taiwanese people are puzzled by the "advance deployment" that the epidemic command center has repeatedly boasted about.

　　In this regard, some Taiwanese media pointed out that the "team" that the DPP authorities said was "to queue up obediently"!

Taiwanese people line up at pharmacies to buy quick screening reagents.

Image source: Photo by Fan Yangguang of Taiwan Zhongshi News Network

Daily increase of nearly 30,000 confirmed cases

Taiwan authorities' anti-epidemic policies change again and again

　　Taiwan's "epidemic command center" announced on the 4th that there were 28,420 new local cases of new coronary pneumonia and 5 more deaths in Taiwan.

So far, there have been more than 200,000 confirmed cases in Taiwan.

A total of more than 20,000 people have been diagnosed in schools at all levels in Taiwan. Some colleges and universities have placed students in conference rooms, tents and even kitchens due to insufficient isolation space.

　　The outbreak of the epidemic has broken into daily life, and what makes Taiwanese people even more panic is the "daily changes" of the DPP authorities' epidemic prevention policy.

Screenshots of Taiwanese netizens' comments.

　　Following the "3+4 (4-day self-imposed epidemic prevention after the 3-day home isolation period expires and a negative quick test)", the epidemic prevention commander Chen Shizhong announced that the number of entry quarantine days will be increased from "10+7" from 0:00 on May 9. Shortened to "7+7".

　　Previously, Chen Shizhong also revealed that there are plans to replace home isolation with quick screening for those who have 3 doses of vaccine in the future, but they must meet the two conditions of the 3rd dose vaccination rate of more than 70% and the effective suppression of moderate to severe cases.

As soon as this news came out, it quickly set off a heated discussion on the Internet.

Many netizens were opposed to it, and some netizens left messages on social media: "Sure enough, I won't act anymore", "I have to adapt to the situation, I have to sing and leave the seat", "I want to be crazy about the election?" "Translation: The number of confirmed diagnoses can be beautiful."

　　A Taiwanese media commentary criticized the authorities’ anti-epidemic policies as being rambunctious and incapable of clearing them. Therefore, in addition to blaming the virus, they would only instruct the people to “respond independently”, and even expanded to explain that the future would move towards “soft self-responsibility”.

When the people still don't know what "soft self-restraint" means, the epidemic prevention and isolation policy changes again and again, and they are forced to queue up every day to buy quick screening reagents for peace of mind.

As the epidemic continues to heat up, many Taiwanese people line up to buy quick screening reagents after get off work.

Image source: Photo by Huang Ziming of Taiwan Zhongshi News Network

People line up to buy quick screening reagents

The operation behind the chaos is controversial

　　The demand for rapid screening reagents continues to increase.

However, the real-name system "purchase restriction" of the quick screening system has been in operation for less than ten days. The people complained that they "can't buy it", and the "legislators" also asked for further price reductions.

　　Taipei City Councilor Wang Hongwei analyzed that there are 4,967 real-name real-name sales points in Taiwan, and the maximum supply of quick-screening agents in one day is about 390,000 copies. If Taiwan's working population is 11.44 million, each person has to wait in line for 30 days on average. , "If there is a confirmed case, after 30 days, I don't know where it went. How to prevent the epidemic?"

　　Chen Shizhong's "hoarding theory" was criticized by Taiwanese netizens: "So you admit that it is expensive?" "How to hoard if one person can buy 5 doses" "If there are cheap goods to buy, who will hoard" Go!" "This logic subverts basic economics."

Screenshots of Taiwanese netizens' comments.

　　Since there are not enough quick screening agents, the epidemic command center should be more active in purchasing them. If someone is willing to provide them, the more the better.

　　However, Chen Shizhong's "old problem" has been committed again. Just like in the past when Taiwan's vaccine was seriously insufficient, he resisted private donations. This time, the public could not buy rapid screening reagents. Yang Zhiliang, the former head of Taiwan's health department, intends to donate 10 million doses. The command center directly blocked it, and the reason was "made in the mainland".

　　Yang Zhiliang emphasized that the brand's rapid screening reagent "false negatives and false positives are less than 1%, and the screening effect is high." What is there to refuse from the "Ministry of Health and Welfare"?

　　Zeng Mingzong, the general leader of the Kuomintang's "Legislative Yuan" party group, said recently that there is no color classification for rapid screening reagents. Assuming that they meet international standards after testing, do you still need to tell where they are produced?

Even this thing has to be double-standard, and even this thing has to be involved in the mainland.

Epidemic prevention or anti-epidemic materials should not be divided into colors. Now many people are queuing up to buy quick screening reagents, but they cannot buy them. Are they still divided into colors at this time?

Taiwanese people are doing inspections.

Image source: Photo by Chen Yicheng of Taiwan Zhongshi News Network

Careful calculation, profit from the epidemic

Epidemic "slaps face" DPP authorities

　　The Kuomintang held its regular meeting on the afternoon of the 4th. At the meeting, Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun said that the epidemic is what the people are most concerned about now. In the process of epidemic prevention, there are many places in the surrounding areas that Taiwan can learn from, but others have already demonstrated, and Taiwan does not even learn I can learn, and I can't even copy.

Screenshots of Taiwanese netizens' comments.

　　The comments published by Taiwan's "United Daily News" today pointed out that when Chen Shizhong was still calculating the cost of reagents and manual screening, he was still restricting which patients could get medicines, and he was still treating blue-green counties and cities eccentrically. Pay attention; the only thing that will greet him will be the hurricane epidemic.

If you want to bring Taiwan out of the epidemic safely, you must first change your mentality!

　　A Taiwanese media published an article on the 4th, "The Democratic Progressive Party is profiting from the epidemic." The analysis pointed out that after examining the various actions of the DPP authorities since the epidemic, they first made the public panic purchase, and then intervened in the procurement in the name of the whole Taiwan. , distribution, on the one hand, euphemistically called taking care of the people, on the other hand, grasping the manufacturers.

The DPP authorities used the people's tax money to buy the quick-screening reagents, and they asked the people to spend their own money to buy them.