We had a SARS outbreak in Taiwan since we trusted the statement from Chinese government back then. This time we assume coronavirus can do person to person transmission and blocked travel to WuHan back when CCP and WHO were downplaying its ability to spread. That's how we have less cases than Japan, Korea and Hong Kong now.
Recently Taiwanese people in WuHan asked for evacuation. CCP denied our request at first, then they allowed but the plane had to be operated by them. We requested to fly children, elderly and people with medical condition first, instead they flew wealthy businessmen with good connection to CCP and their China spouses. Three people on that plane exhibit symptoms at customs and one of them is confirmed infected with coronavirus. Now we have to quarantine all 200+ people boarded.
> That's how we have less cases than Japan, Korea and Hong Kong now.
There could be other reasons for this, no? I mean, specifically in Japan's case, a huge cluster of that is from cruise ships. That seems more like a [bad] luck thing rather than the result of proactive action.
Also, I think we should make the distinction between "cases" and "confirmed cases". I'm in Singapore and one of the reasons given why Singapore has so many confirmed cases (3rd most) is that the Government is relentless about tracking infections.
Maybe that's just a positive spin. Either way, I think there's a lot of reasons to take these early numbers with a grain of salt.
Before the cruise ship, Japan already got domestic transmission case which is a bus driver driving tour groups from WuHan. It is confirmed on 1/28. (Later the Japanese local tour guide on that bus is also confirmed infected) They barred foreign nationals who visited China's Hubei Province on 2/1
Taiwan blocked tour groups from Hubei on 1/24 and ordered to evict existing groups. There are two confirmed cases whom are WuHan tourists entered before 1/24. Fortunately they did not caused domestic transmission.
The case I referred on that evacuation plane is a confirmed case and there is still a chance there might be more cases from that plane since the on-plane protection is reported to be sloppy.
> We requested to fly children, elderly and people with medical condition first, instead they flew wealthy businessmen with good connection to CCP and their China spouses.
