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.
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
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.
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.
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