One year after the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan, which has always considered itself a "model student", has recently suffered a "broken achievement", with daily confirmed cases reaching three digits for 10 consecutive days. Up to now, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Taiwan has exceeded 4,000, and there have been many deaths. Although the authorities continue to emphasize the adequacy of medical resources, the news of bed shortages has been reported in many places, and grass-roots medical staff have also continuously sent distress signals to the society.
What's worse is that due to the large number of vaccines in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the Taiwan authorities cannot buy vaccines at all in the international market, and can only get a small number of vaccines through the WHO's "new crown vaccine access mechanism". But even so, the Politicians of the Taiwan authorities are still ideologically in charge, and they have set heavy limits on the vaccines on the mainland that are close at hand, resulting in extremely low vaccination rates among the People of Taiwan, even lower than in many underdeveloped areas.
The outbreak of the epidemic, the shortage of medical resources, and the lack of vaccine protection are not very good. Overnight, the Taiwanese suddenly found that they were "disliked" by some people. Among them, Huang Qiusheng, a Hong Kong actor who recently obtained Taiwan's "employment gold card" and announced his move to Taiwan, is the most typical.
On May 25, Huang Qiusheng posted a photo on social media with the caption "Day One." Although there was no more text, sharp-eyed netizens quickly discovered that Huang Qiusheng was in a hotel near the Hong Kong airport and speculated that it should be the first day of quarantine.
However, the Internet has a memory, and just 10 days ago, Huang Qiusheng also called on taiwanese people on social media to "fight the epidemic together" and asked everyone to "pass on his words". So what is he going to do when he returns to Hong Kong so soon? Netizens immediately began to laugh at the group mode, leaving a message under their posts to taunt "good horses do not eat grass" and "why don't you accompany Taiwanese through difficult times?" "Is it back to Hong Kong for vaccination?"
Although Huang Qiusheng's agent responded that he was not "scared away" by the epidemic in Taiwan, but prepared in advance for the Hong Kong performance in August. But this statement is still unacceptable to many people, some people feel that this does not just show that there are not many job opportunities in Taiwan under the epidemic, and he can only return to Hong Kong to make money?
In any case, judging from Huang Qiusheng's black history of supporting thugs and smearing the Hong Kong police without a bottom line during the "storm over the amendment of the law" in Hong Kong, his previous so-called "support for Taiwan" is most likely false. Just as the so-called mouth is full of doctrine, the heart is full of interests, and the great calamity is about to fly separately, even if the flood behind them is monstrous.
Not only is Huang Qiusheng "running fast", but some European and American media are also changing their faces very quickly. Previously, CNN had called Taiwan a "model of epidemic prevention", Bloomberg also put a top hat on Tsai Ing-wen, and the New York Times praised Taiwan several times, and even called it a "paradise in the epidemic". It can be said that the reason why the Taiwan authorities have a fluttering mentality is that the praise of these foreign media has also played a role in fueling the waves.
However, the speed of the change in the situation has surprised everyone, and these foreign media have begun to change their faces en masse despite their conduct. No, on May 19, Bloomberg published an article pointing to the main reason for the loss of control of the epidemic in Taiwan to the Taiwan authorities' high degree of complacency and intoxication in the achievement of "the world's most successful", and similar arguments also appeared in the BBC report in the United Kingdom. The May 21 New York Times also reported on the outbreak of the epidemic in Taiwan under the headline "Sooner or later this day will come," giving people a sense of hindsight. In addition, those involved in the "criticism fight" are also the American "Time" magazine, Deutsche Welle...
In just a few months, these Western media have sent Taiwan to the throne of the myth of epidemic prevention, and have dragged it down mercilessly, and they used to call people Xiao Tiantian, and now they are called People's Cow Lady... Whether Taiwanese society accepts it or not, the fact is that if the Western media has always regarded the western media as a golden rule, once the bubble is punctured, the whole society will suffer even greater loss.
What is even more ironic is that at a time when the US media have "changed their faces" against Taiwan, some US politicians are still excusing "the United States does not send vaccines to Taiwan." Today (May 26), the outgoing head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), Li Yingjie, claimed that the number of confirmed cases in Taiwan is "still low" compared to the world, and he is "confident that Taiwan can control the epidemic again this time."
As soon as these remarks came out, Taiwan netizens shouted that I am not careful in making friends, and I see absolute love in hardships, and I bitterly criticize the Taiwan authorities for making myself a and not being able to live.
In fact, there are many people who have changed their faces, and there are also those that have never changed, that is, the goodwill of the mainland. Despite political strife, in the mainland's view, the people of Taiwan are compatriots of flesh and blood, and blood is thicker than water. At present, after experiencing the panic in the early days of last year, the mainland feels empathy for Taiwan's current situation and has repeatedly offered to help. Helplessly, the Taiwan authorities have been able to "oppose every time the mainland" and do everything possible to block the mainland's vaccine delivery to Taiwan.
Just as Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said on the 26th, many counties, cities, and non-governmental organizations on the island have recently called for the People of Taiwan to use the mainland vaccine as soon as possible, and some surveys have shown that nearly half of the Taiwan people are willing to be vaccinated with qualified vaccines immediately, which fully reflects the confidence of the Taiwan people in the mainland vaccine. The DPP authorities have turned a deaf ear to this and fabricated lies to smear the mainland vaccine, which is essentially an indifference to the lives and health of Taiwan compatriots.
It can be said that the harm of being infected with the "Taiwan independence" virus is even worse than that of the new crown virus! When is the human life greater than the heavens, the Taiwan authorities will still be obsessed with it?!
Source: Reference News Network