editorial
Written by: Hong Kong 01
2021-05-31 06:00
The last update date: 2021-05-31 10:59
Beginning in mid-May, Taiwan, which has always described itself as a "model student for epidemic prevention," had a community infection of the new crown epidemic, with hundreds of new confirmed cases every day for more than ten days.
The first is "Double North"—Taipei City and New Taipei City, and then the entire Taiwan issued a third-level epidemic prevention alert and entered a state of lockdown.
In the past, Taiwan had achieved eight consecutive months of zero confirmed cases in the country, so many people were very surprised by the outbreak in Taiwan. However, as many Western media have said, Taiwan is overly complacent about the prevention and control of the epidemic, the New York Times said. In a nutshell, "This day will come sooner or later."
The Taiwanese Democratic Progressive Party government's slogan "advance deployment," which has always been on its lips, has been reduced to empty words under this wave of epidemics.
In the past year or so, Taiwan's prevention and control capabilities have not only made no progress, and there has been no "deployment" in terms of testing, admission and treatment, and vaccines.
Now that the epidemic has occurred, those in power should find ways to remedy the situation. Unfortunately, the Tsai Ing-wen’s government still spends its energy on disguising troubles, rejecting scientific methods, and even shifting the responsibility to the mainland, putting political self-interest on top of it. Above the interests of the people, he did not reflect on his own lack of governance at all.
Can this kind of government be considered responsible to the 20 million Taiwanese voters?
In the recent anti-epidemic storm in Taiwan, one of the most controversial methods is to use the concept of "corrected regression" to count the number of confirmed cases.
Chen Shizhong, the commander of the Epidemic Command Center, explained that the "corrected return" is not to conceal the number of confirmed diagnoses, but only to supplement the data of the previously uncompleted test cases according to the submission date.
Even if this explanation is reasonable, it also reflects that Taiwan's testing capabilities are seriously inadequate.
In the past year or so, the authorities have consistently refused to conduct general inspections on the public, and public opinion has long questioned that "without testing, there is no diagnosis."
This statement may be too conspiracy theory, but the epidemic has made Taiwan’s inadequate testing capabilities invisible, highlighting that the authorities have not prepared for a rainy day, and the new crown epidemic has been raging around the world for a year and a half, and the experience of various localities has long proved that we must fight the epidemic. War, detection and isolation are all matters of every second, and lagging detection capabilities will only become a loophole in epidemic prevention.
As the number of local cases has soared, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare has begun to play "correction return" to prevent the number of cases from becoming too high in a single day.
(Provided by the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taiwan)
Ning Chi Lai pigs do not vaccinate the mainland, but the other side cannot help Taiwan
On the other hand, the rapid rise in confirmed cases has put huge pressure on Taiwan’s medical system. The media have quoted frontline medical staff as saying that the medical system is facing collapse, and there are long queues in the emergency department. Many patients who have been tested positive are forced to sit in arcades or on the side of the road. Inhale oxygen and wait for beds in the built tents.
Although the authorities strongly deny that the hospital is "explosive," they have to admit that the situation is "not so good."
What is puzzling is that during the peak of the epidemic on the mainland in March last year, someone on the island of Taiwan suggested that the authorities refer to mainland practices to build "square cabin hospitals" when necessary. At that time, Chen Shizhong vowed to declare that there were as many as 20,000 isolation beds in Taiwan. Refer to the "other country" approach.
In fact, both the general inspection and the shelter hospitals were manipulated by Taiwan Green Camp as political discourse to exalt themselves and detract from the mainland. Chen Shizhong stated a few months ago that the cost of testing in Taiwan is much higher than that on the other side, because "because it is accurate. ".
Now that Taiwan is truly victimized by the epidemic, these politicians are also trapped in a predicament of cocooning themselves. They can only continue to use lies one after another to conceal their behavior of manipulating people's hatred and anti-China sentiments in exchange for political benefits.
However, when the lie finally broke down, what is even more ironic is that when Tsai Ing-wen made a high-profile call for the public to resist false information on the Internet, the green camp figures were exposed to "reverse pro-China" and directed and performed the "cognitive warfare" against the mainland. ".
The Tsai Ing-wen government is still unwilling to let go of its political mindset.
The vaccination rate in Taiwan is low. As of the beginning of May, only about 100,000 people were vaccinated, which is less than 1% of the total population.
In the past, when Taiwan was a "model student in epidemic prevention", some green camp figures chanted "vaccine is not urgent" to justify the repeated failure to raise vaccine promissory notes. Now the people are shocked that the shortage of vaccines makes Taiwan insecure. However, he tried to shirk the problem on the mainland, accusing Beijing of blocking Taiwan’s purchase of the German BioNTech vaccine out of thin air, disregarding public opinion and exposing that the Tsai Ing-wen government tried to forcibly bypass the vaccine’s agency in Greater China in order to maintain its political correctness. Shanghai Fosun was the cause of the deal break.
Tsai Ing-wen has continued to accuse the mainland of obstructing Taiwan’s access to vaccines. Some netizens have teased that the United States has repeatedly sold arms to Taiwan. The mainland cannot stop it. Why can only vaccines be successfully prevented?
Facing the "vaccine turmoil," there are voices in Taiwan urging the authorities to purchase vaccines from the mainland.
Even though the mainland vaccine has been approved by the WHO for emergency use and has been recognized in many places around the world, the DPP authorities continue to stigmatize it. Chen Shizhong replied contemptuously when the other side proposed to donate vaccines to Taiwan. We dare not use it." As for Shanghai Fosun's willingness to provide BioNTech vaccine to Taiwan, the green camp said that it is a substandard product that Hong Kong people will not fight and will soon expire.
Such prejudices that do not ask about science are really staggering.
What’s even more absurd is that the DPP government only vigorously promoted the introduction of American "Laizhu" pork (that is, pork containing "clenbuterol"), which was recognized as having health side effects, and declared that it was for the benefit of the people of Taiwan. The people of Taiwan are in urgent need of vaccines, but the authorities have tried to evasive. Is it really "preferring to take western poisons than the mainland vaccines"?
The Tsai Ing-wen government is still unwilling to let go of its political mindset.
(Central News Agency)
It is difficult to conceal the improper governance, the public opinion of the Tsai Ing-wen government and the public opinion
An epidemic not only debunked Taiwan’s "epidemic prevention myth", it also exposed the issue of Taiwan’s ruling party improperly governing and overriding the interests of the people.
Even if the DPP and the Green Camp continue to carry out "big internal propaganda," it is difficult to conceal the results of the incursion.
Taiwanese people do not buy into this lack of factual political propaganda. The latest poll conducted by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation from May 17 to 20 shows that Tsai Ing-wen's reputation value is only 45.7%, a 21-month low; 52.8 % Of the respondents believed that the outbreak in Taiwan was a man-made disaster, and 19.1% thought it was both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster.
A poll conducted by the TVBS Poll Center from May 11 to 14 also showed that Tsai Ing-wen’s approval rate dropped from 61% when he was re-elected to 41%.
The support of the Tsai Ing-wen government during the first term of office fell to the bottom. It only used the anti-revision demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2019 to instigate feelings of enmity, by selling "dried mangoes" (a homonym for "sense of subjugation") and fighting the mainland with democracy. Create a myth by yourself.
However, if a government cannot deliver satisfactory performance after political manipulation, it will only be beaten back to its original form and fall off the sacred stage.
The epidemic is only one corner of Taiwan’s failure to treat it. Recently, a series of chaos has appeared in Taiwan, and the Tsai Ing-wen government cannot shirk the blame.
In recent months, bad news about Taiwan can be said to have followed one after another. First, the drying up of ponds in some areas not only affects people’s daily lives, but also threatens Taiwan’s economic pillars ranging from high-end chip manufacturing to agricultural production; second, May 13 In just five days from the 17th, Taiwan’s Xingda Power Plant suffered two power outages, and there were unannounced power outages and rationing across Taiwan.
These problems are obviously not pure natural disasters.
The instability of water supply is not a moment or three, but has been accumulated for a long time. The Tsai Ing-wen government launched a plan to increase water conservancy construction in 2017 in an attempt to repair it, but the current drought reflects that the policy has failed to effectively improve the problem.
The apparent cause of the two power outages was the failure of the unit, but the failure was the consequence of not replacing the unit for a long time, and the lack of a replacement unit reflected that the power supply was very tight.
In his early years, Tsai Ing-wen opposed nuclear power and shouted "Power generation with love." After taking office, he promised that there would be no shortage of power in Taiwan. At this time, it is hard to justify the lack of power. The slogan "Power generation with love" was even ridiculed by Taiwanese netizens.
When it comes to other actual political achievements of the Tsai Ing-wen government, few can be praised as good.
The above-mentioned TVBS survey reflects that of the 12 major policies promoted by the Tsai Ing-wen government, only three policies have higher satisfaction than dissatisfaction, and the rest of the projects, such as economic development and policy communication, annuity reform, forward-looking construction plan promotion, South Africa There are more people who are dissatisfied than satisfied with policies, judicial reforms, and air pollution improvement.
Policies such as the introduction of the "Laizhu" in the United States and the forced closure of Zhongtian TV have caused a strong backlash in public opinion.
There was a queue for AstraZeneca vaccine in the Yangming District of Taipei United Hospital today (30th) morning.
("United Daily News")
Many democrats in Hong Kong have always regarded Taiwan as their hope for democracy in China and have high hopes for the Tsai Ing-wen government. The current chaos in Taiwan may not be an important lesson for them.
Regardless of whether it is a so-called Western democratic society, the support of public opinion earned by manipulating political ideologies and positions cannot last long. For those in power to win the support of public opinion for a long time, the key lies in the real improvement of people's lives.
The democrats have always used political ideology to win support, shitting most of the problems of Hong Kong on the political contradictions of dry ports. Although they can win a moment of applause, this political road of trafficking in "resistance against China" cannot be sustained.
The "Hong Kong National Security Law" was promulgated last year, and the central government completely compressed the space for manipulating political ideology in Hong Kong. "Hong Kong independence," "self-determination," and even inciting conflicts between mainland and Hong Kong may be subject to legal sanctions. So what is left for the democrats? ?
Democrats often evade their inability to govern and talk about governance.
But political discussion is also a part of political participation. If the democrats only focus on unrealistic ideological disputes and do not propose policies that can be implemented down-to-earth, then the road ahead will be bumpy.
For Hong Kong’s rulers and establishments, the chaos in Taiwan is also full of warnings.
Although Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party are fully in power and have great power, if they do not pay attention to governance, they will only consume their political capital in vain, and if the lack of governance leads to the people's lack of livelihood, the people will inevitably rise to question the crime.
Regardless of ideology, governance itself is the primary responsibility of every government to society. Whether it is a so-called "democratic" or "authoritarian" government, the people will ultimately evaluate the life they can feel.
In recent years, several large-scale polls in the West reflect that the CCP’s public support in the Mainland is as high as 90%, indicating that most of the people in the Mainland are satisfied with the CCP’s governance. The reason is that the people feel that their living standards have improved and their living environment has improved. .
Doesn't this also show that whether a government can win the hearts of the people is the simple truth of whether governance is effective?
Therefore, if those in power do not grasp power well and are committed to improving people's lives, the chaos will still be difficult to quell in the end.
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