Monograph: DPP opportunistic Taiwan society "raises tigers"

The original text was published on 2021/5/18 " Multidimensional News "

May 15, 2021 is destined to be an unforgettable day in Taiwan. It is also the day when the mask of Tsai Ing-wen’s government’s new crown pneumonia “premier student” was torn off. On that day, the number of new crown pneumonia screening tests in Taiwan exploded, and 180 local cases were screened. cases, an increase of 206 cases on May 16 and another 333 on May 17. Although this is only a trifle compared to the number abroad, the sudden appearance of the three-digit number has broken through the psychological defense line of the Taiwanese people, and the hundred-digit number of this number is still increasing by leaps, and what is even more terrifying is that these cases may all be Just the tip of the iceberg.

Why is it the tip of the iceberg? At present, most of these cases have occurred in Taipei and New Taipei City (Shuangbei area). The transportation network in this area is the most developed in Taiwan. The public transportation system includes buses, Taipei MRT, Taoyuan Airport MRT, and Taiwan High Speed Rail. , Taiwan Railway, Songshan Airport, etc., and the Taoyuan Airport MRT can also directly reach the Taoyuan International Airport, which is the gateway to Taiwan. The official test data is already outdated, and the footprints may have already spread all over Taiwan. What's more, the current number of cases is the majority in the Greater Taipei area, because the limited screening energy is concentrated in this area, and screening in other counties and cities may have to wait in line. If the screening energy is sufficient at that time, It is probably inevitable that other counties and cities will "catch behind" and catch up.

The "lucky" factor in Taiwan

Previously, the DPP government was proud of its "advance deployment". When the global cases continued to increase by four to five figures every day, it was able to control the number of cases in Taiwan within a "controllable range" and donated anti-epidemic materials to various countries. In the name of "Taiwan can help", the diplomatic war with mainland China and the World Health Organization (WHO) is inseparable from some "lucky" factors.

First of all, Taiwan is surrounded by sea on all sides, and diseases brought from abroad are not easy to invade due to its inherent geographical advantages. This provides excellent natural conditions for the DPP government to "resist Chinese diseases". African Swine Fever", in fact, is to set up inspection stations at entry points such as airports and ports. They only need to search people who enter the inspection stations and confiscate pork products brought back from mainland China. Media reporters released the case of "Government detected smuggling of pork imports", and supplemented it with slogans such as "protect braised pork rice" that touched the lives of ordinary people in the market, so that Su Zhenchang's so-called "Government will do things" can easily be achieved. propaganda effect. With such operating experience, it is not difficult for the DPP to replicate and apply it to the new crown pneumonia defense battle.

Secondly, the mask product is regarded by many European and American countries as a sunset industry with high pollution and low gross profit margin. In the global trade plan, the production of this product is naturally the best to be outsourced to countries with cheap labor, which led to the outbreak of the epidemic. Most European and American countries do not have mask production lines. At the beginning of the global outbreak of the epidemic, Taiwan happened to have mask production equipment. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, led by then-Minister of Economics Shen Rongjin, coerced and lured manufacturers with meltblown nonwoven production capacity to form a "mask national team". For a period of time, the "mask concept stocks" have become very popular. Combined with the already established health insurance database system, the public can easily use the health insurance card to go to supermarkets and other nodes to obtain rationed masks. In the early stage of the epidemic, people have no shortage of masks. Use, to a certain extent, curb the infectious ability of the disease.

Taiwan has also vigorously sent masks to other countries for diplomacy. However, in the face of mainland China, which produces more masks, this diplomatic attempt has not achieved the effect of sending carbon in the snow, and even made Mrs. Ho Ching of Singapore post on her Facebook page. "Errr...", mocking Taiwan will only be the icing on the cake. After other countries have completed the establishment of mask production lines, Taiwan's masks can only be turned into algal flakes in the water.

DPP's speculative operations lead to frying pans

The above-mentioned operation looks like a tiger, gilding the DPP government with a layer of gold, and becoming a "model student of epidemic prevention" that foreign media are eager to report on. It is difficult to find that the Tsai Ing-wen government only "solved the easier-to-solve problems" first, and then declared that "the problem-solving success rate is extremely high." Among the four pillars of anti-epidemic materials (masks, antidote, rapid screening, and vaccines), masks are the least technical, and it happens that Taiwan has this production line, but rapid screening, antidote, and vaccines are always "only the sound of stairs." ”, and even the embarrassment of spending a lot of money to mass-produce the “antidote” quinine that has not been proven to be effective, so that it can only be distributed to medical institutions for free in the end. (Extended reading: Why did the "national team" fail repeatedly and the government failed to become the new normal in Taiwan )

The Tsai Ing-wen government has the problem that political ideology overrides professionalism. It insists that no "Chinese elements" are contained in the vaccine acquisition. Whether it is funded by Chinese companies or made in mainland China, they are a priori excluded and rejected. The "big internal propaganda" dismissed Chinese vaccines as "unscientific" and "low-quality", and because of the entanglement of interest factors such as supporting local vaccine manufacturers, the BNT vaccine that was once close to Taiwan was because of the Shanghai Fosun agent. The problem was shut out, and this batch of vaccines had a good chance to be administered to the front-line medical staff and cargo transporters. Just imagine if this batch of vaccines was injected by the pilots of China Airlines, there would be a Novotel hotel later. event? (Extended reading: Reappearance of Lysenkoism: The ghost of the former Soviet Union is haunting Taiwan )

In addition, in order to "create a god" for Chen Shizhong, the commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Center, the DPP government insisted that all epidemic prevention matters should be in the hands of the "Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center" headed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan. Chen Shizhong issued a series of Laws and regulations, the public channel of epidemic information, no matter whether the epidemic information is true or not, as long as it is spread, it will be criminally liable (Zhou Yukou, who has good relations with the DPP, is an exception); and local governments only try to improve epidemic prevention. Active actions will be attacked by the DPP government in all directions. For example, when the "Rocky Ship Incident" occurred, then Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu wanted to prepare for epidemic prevention, but was stopped by Chen Shizhong, because he was worried that it would affect the "strike". Han voted”; and the Changhua County Government had previously cooperated with National Taiwan University Hospital to conduct general screening of 10,000 people, Chen Shizhong also let the Internet army spread a large number of “general screening is like a pregnancy test, it does not need to be done often”, “general screening will cause mass Infections” and other information, and launched a political investigation into the Changhua City Health Bureau, but the results of the general screening were still satisfactory to Chen Shizhong, and the information had to be made public.

"Good luck" always runs out

The "frying pot" of the Taiwan epidemic is not accidental, but the result of the long-term accumulation of the previous DPP government's actions to hide the bells and whistles, and the recent shortage of water and electricity is the same. Under the circumstance that the epidemic could not be covered up, Chen Shizhong finally reluctantly delegated power to the local government. The DPP government always shouted the slogan of Taiwan's unity, but in fact it ignored the role of the local government as the "assistance" of the central government. For a long time, the "Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center" has been allowed to do things beyond its capacity, and the muddy waters left behind are not only a test for Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe and New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi, but also a test for the survival of Taiwanese people and enterprises.

In general, the reason why Taiwan has been able to prevent and control the epidemic properly in the past year or so cannot be attributed to the good governance ability of Tsai Ing-wen's government. In addition to relying on the self-control of Taiwanese society, it is more because "lucky enough" ". But this time, the "lucky" of the Taiwanese people has been squandered day and night by politicians, and their luck has obviously been exhausted.

Looking back at the early days of the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in Wuhan, mainland China, due to timely prevention and control, Taiwan "blocked" a number of accounts, which indeed prevented large-scale community infections in Taiwan. But at the same time, the governance capacity of the Taiwanese government, including epidemiological investigations, screening measures, and medical systems, has not experienced the impact of this large-scale community infection. Tsai Ing-wen's government has been complacent about "successful epidemic prevention" and "takes credit" in the international community and internal politics. This may be the biggest problem in Taiwan's epidemic prevention line, and this is why Taiwan society must face the "tiger breeding backlash" today. crisis.