Witch hunts hindering contact tracing
By Lin Shu-heng 林書珩
As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes increasingly severe, there have been several instances of people who tested positive for the disease hiding information from investigators during contact tracing. To ensure that all confirmed cases and their respective contacts tell the truth during contact tracing, people should stop encouraging witch hunts and ridiculing confirmed cases.
As the number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan has been low, most people have looked at every case as exceptional. Under such circumstances, the public has focused on the movement of confirmed cases and speculated about their private lives as they tried to figure out how they had been infected. That approach does little to help the situation, and it could even punch a hole in the nation’s epidemic prevention armor.
<strong>A deal with the devil</strong>
After a petition for a referendum on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project near an algal reef on the Taoyuan coast passed the second-stage legal threshold for official consideration, it is likely to become the fourth referendum to be held in August.
Not long ago, the event organizers had only collected fewer than 100,000 signatures to support the petition. How did they manage to collect more than 400,000 signatures when such a short period remained before the deadline?
The key to their success probably lies with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
Since their push for the petition