I sit up here in Fairbanks. They have no cases in Alaska yet. I can tell you that the media isn't talking about what is going on in North Italy. I think the world of Trump. I think that we need to go full aggro and do what Taiwan has. They have spread out the virus so it has not caused problems. They have their [bleep] together. Lets look at what they did.
I have follow TW news on this for the past few weeks on youtube. • Their CDC officials gave daily live press briefing on all the cases. • They stop all visitors from China very early in Jan. • All the folks returns from China and other infected locations are required to have app that monitor their locations. o 14 days monitor periods. o They are required to answers the phone / video call at random time. o If they failed to answers, the local polices will check on them. o If that failed, their info - name, pic, location will broadcast to the TV, internet and the social media. o There are heavy fine (up to 60K USD) for breaking the quarantine period. • TW CDC publicizes every single cases (only 45 for now.. ) - o Don't id the person directly. o But id their work location, o places they have been to, etc. o Living Neighborhood. o Everything is public. All actions, in-actions are debated public-ally. • The government immediate focus on Mask productions. o A few days ago - they can make 10 millions Mask per day now. o Gov sponsor $$$ for rapid ramp up of mask productions automation lines a few weeks. • Each citizen can order (2?) per masks and it is associated with their ID. (Health ID). • There are strict rule in hospital about visitors. • TW, HK, Singapore all been to SARS in 2003 and learn a lot from that. o Their systems were all hyper aware of various aspect of the impacts Hospitals - How to protect the doctors, nurse. Press and media - how to publicize the news without cause panic. Economic - there are policy to help individuals and biz to survive the impact.
