It’s an interesting time to be a Canadian who immigrated from Taiwan in her teens.
Yesterday, Canada
passed the 10,000 deaths milestone in its COVID-19 response.
Today, Taiwan
marked 200 consecutive days of zero domestically acquired COVID-19 cases.
Yesterday, Canada

Today, Taiwan

It’s worth noting that it’s a @business publication that has highlighted the success of Taiwan’s COVID-19 response (and its economic growth).
by @samsonellis https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1321648551810658330
by @samsonellis https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1321648551810658330
This Bloomberg article highlighted an important population-health ethical consideration that’s been deemed incompatible with a western value-system that prizes individual privacy above all else.
Taiwan’s leveraging of #BigDataAnalytics was debated & passed in the legislature.
Taiwan’s leveraging of #BigDataAnalytics was debated & passed in the legislature.
However, the accumulating #COVID19debt that
Canadians (such as myself) will be paying for decades to come deserves a robust national discussion on the trade-off of an individual vs. community approach to public health emergency post-pandemic.
