Life in Taiwan is 'pretty much the same' as it was before COVID-19

[@tristanmuller0208]

From an Australian living in Taiwan.. Taiwan is probably the closest neighbor to China and has a great deal of medical, business and scientific interaction with China; while maintaining its own democratic government and independent agencies apart from CCP controlled China. It nevertheless, has more access to what goes on in China than perhaps any other neighboring country. Taiwan doctors learned about the emergence of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan before the end of 2019, after reports from their colleagues in mainland China in late December; reports that Wuhan medical staff were falling ill after treating Wuhan city residents infected by a mysterious form of pnemonia... a serious indication of human-to-human transmission. Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC),confirmed sending an email to its Chinese counterpart in order to seek clarification and more information, as well as an email to the WHO on Dec.31 saying that Taiwan was aware of a respiratory illness that had appeared in Wuhan and was very concerned about the possibility of human-to-human transmission. The Chinese counterpart would not clarify the alleged human-to-human transmission, and the WHO did nothing more than simply acknowledge receipt of Taiwan's email. The Taiwan CDC also communicated this information to the WHO's International Health Regulations (IHR) framework on Dec.31. The only response that Taiwan received from the WHO was an email saying that the inquiry would be relayed to the organization’s experts but would NOT be posted on the organization’s internal website for the benefit of member countries. The IHR's internal website provides a platform for all countries to share information on the epidemic/pandemic and their responses. Due to Taiwan's current exclusion from the WHO. NONE of the information shared by the Taiwan CDC is allowed to be put up there. Taiwan’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) said it has email correspondence with the WHO to substantiate its claim about the latter’s inaction. Though the WHO did not publicize Taiwan's warnings, Taiwan decided to immediately take precautions itself based on the information it had. Taiwan fortunately decided that same day to begin screening passengers flying in from Wuhan, and activated its emergency operations center on Jan.2 - a move experts say allowed Taiwan to effectively control the early spread of the virus. It also dispatched a team to Wuhan to learn more about the situation. However that team was denied access to both patients and the market area where the virus was claimed to have originated, strengthening its view on its precautionary measures. If that information and severe concern of the Tiwan CDC had been able to get out to the rest of the world, without being deemed not worthy by the WHO, other countries may have had a similar understanding of the early severity of the situation and been able to act more in accordance with the realistic situation. Inside CCP controlled China, Chinese authorities meanwhile silenced doctors and refused to admit human-human transmission until Jan. 20, with catastrophic consequences. Taiwan was able to handle the situation extremely well due to its at hand information. It was the rest of the global community that is suffering badly now due to the WHO's refusal to make the concerns and findings of Taiwan available to the rest of the world. Such a shame for the rest of the world that WHO continues to restrict Taiwan for political reasons, namely political pressure from Beijing.

[@applekittygod]

Me as a Taiwanese and Aussie really appreciate your detailed comment helping Australians to understand the whole picture. My siblings in Australia felt insecure wearing a mask how sad it was. Hope in near future Aussies can implement right actions for it.

[@pollywogs7140]

Taiwan should not join the WHO, what is the use? As long as WHO is corrupted, Taiwan is safer to be by itself.

[@applekittygod]

Polly Wogs exchange information and data base of the patient to develop vaccine.

[@johnsarkissian5519]

Tristan Muller, I do agree with much of that you have written. But I have to say one thing: Now, in early April, despite what the WHO did or didn’t report, the rest of the world is still acting recklessly and ignorantly. You are saying, China did not admit that there was human to human transmission until end of January. It’s now April and one idiotic U.S. state governor (I forget which state!) just said he just learned that asymptomatic people can also transmit virus. So, no matter how much earlier had China disclosed the truth about the virus, as I see it, it would have made very little difference. It’s April 5 already, but much of the world is still not getting the message.

[@bernlin2000]

The WHOs unflinching loyalty to Chinese communists has costs many more lives around the world, but particularly in Italy and the US. There will be backlash.

[@shannonmurphy760]

I'm an American that's been living in Taiwan for 3 years. Internationally, people have been excluding Taiwan from important conversations because of Chinese pressure. If WHO had let Taiwan into this discussion when it first tried to in late December, many lives could have been saved. Also, people here are freedom lovers, just constantly pushed down by a massive bully that has thwarted potentially life saving information. I'm so grateful to be here and hope everyone else in the world is keeping safe.

[@katemakeup]

I agree. Taiwan has done a better job at containing this virus than the WHO has. I'd like Taiwan to share their strategies with my prime minister, please

[@AntoninusPius17]

No don’t get involved. The minute you get involved you will be extorted. It’s like letting the crooks in. Just do your thing and focus on your own land. F$&k the rest. Nothing stops governments from picking up the phone and calling Taiwan. But truth is the government want ‘lockdown’. Wants to destroy the middle class to deflate their bubbles and to give free $$$$ to big companies. So many moving parts.

[@chanton4548]

@@katemakeup shut up fake news

[@chanton4548]

stop pretending u are american behind the internet .i am from taiwan ,taiwan did not do enough ,,,they cover the figures ,,did not do well shame on tw

[@markcampbell8158]

Shannon murphy Not fair, you are safer in Taiwan than Trumps America. The story should get out more. They had a plan, they stuck to it. All countries should learn from them. I will say this, Europe and America are going to have a lot of funerals due to not following Taiwan.

[@nightmaregaming3614]

Taiwan was the first country to say that it was human to human transferable, but the WHO didn't want to listen because the WHO are playing a political game instead of doing that they are suppose to do.

[@xionglin2009]

That’s pretty much a lie, Taiwan reacted when China announced they find evidence for human to human transmission, these are all public records don’t u even bother to check?

[@rakaipikatan8922]

@@xionglin2009 Then why WHO didn't even bother to issue BORDER CLOSING & TRAVEL BAN before February 2020? You're the one who brainwashed here, CCP agent.

[@PatheticTV]

All hongkongers know this, everyone else should too. Glad this is top comment.

[@xionglin2009]

Rakai Pikatan probably because they know it’s useless at that point, UK, US and Italy all closed their border disregarding the recommendation, but still got hit pretty hard by the virus.

[@nightmaregaming3614]

@@xionglin2009 if china didn't downplay it from the very beginning most countries wouldn't of been so relaxed about it and we wouldn't be where we are now.

[@philipwade5254]

Please show a proper map of Taiwan! Not the Chinese version!

[@andyandys5356]

9news also shows the wrong map

[@ryanr8121]

@erick meyer usually, people confuse Taiwan and Thailand. ..but then again, I'd rather be confused as Thailand rather than being a part of China.

[@andymcrae4661]

Andrew is correct, as an Australian I live in Taoyuan District. Taiwan. Beautiful country, everyone and everything is the same. It’s great, the reason why is simple. They don’t listen to or believe anything coming from the CCP. When CCP and WHO said the virus is not transferred by human to human, Taiwan shut its borders immediately. And set up precautions like you heard. Moral of the story, don’t listen to CCP and WHO. This is a wake up call for Australia on many levels

[@katemakeup]

This is evidence that early preventative action CAN contain the virus.

[@aaron56426]

More like the whole world

[@emilyemily172]

You are right , I'm Taiwanese , we never trust China .

[@zhangpaul7452]

American also shut border down to China in Jan 31st. Why is it still get such bad situation

[@winterwolf1]

@@zhangpaul7452 because they got it through Europe. Oopsie, accused wrongly. 80% of Australians got it from American....oopsie, accused wrongly again. Funny how all accusations got boomeranged.

[@SEBASTIENCHOU]

We Taiwanese say:don’t trust WHO & CCP😂✌🏻#TaiwanCanHelp

[@sdwg1536]

你们没进世卫是因祸得福👍，信中共一个字都有丢命风险。

[@Harthorn]

Yes Sebastien, it never fails. Russia, Vietnam, North Korea also know CCP's game :). The West is just slow to catch up

[@nolanolivier6791]

Yup...

[@diega869]

The real China

[@robl5027]

Taiwanese are smart people. Cheers mate.

[@karenstrong8546]

Having been Taiwan’ they are “self disciplined “ people . New Year’s Eve there ,was an eye opener for us ,so many people . No police . No drunks .everyone had a respectful distance from each other ,as we all walked in a huge mass from the fireworks display to the trains . No pushing or shoving . Going up escalators people kept to their own sides leaving room in the middle for those in a hurry . It’s their ways through the centuries that have stopped this virus .its-called” respect “

[@karenstrong8546]

@CaptainJayOT doubt it . You are completely wrong about me No panic buying done by me . I know it's a man made virus .

[@ohmygodlawl]

Karen Strong Taiwan is the real China hence their official name is “Republic of China”

[@pollywogs7140]

@CaptainJayOT One of the millions trolls hired by CCP to talk about nonsense. Gan ni de gi ba!

[@alien4053]

@@karenstrong8546 You don't know it's man made. You have no evidence to support that claim. Yes it's possible but you have no proof.

[@karenstrong8546]

@@alien4053 its too coincidental that the virus came from wuhan and there is a p4 lab that makes viruses for bioweaponary the only one in China which was studying this coronavirus .. 1+1=2 . Proof enough add in the wet market a walk away from the p4 lab . You dont have to be a rocket scientist to work it all out

[@algriffin9021]

If we fought this virus with the seriousness like Taiwan does. We can have a functioning economy.

[@col2959]

Al Griffin but slowmo said we are staying ahead of the curve....🙈

[@Harthorn]

@Brian Swope Taiwan is a democracy......... It is also the first nation in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

[@algriffin9021]

@@Harthorn er....whats your point??

[@algriffin9021]

@Brian Swope freedom is something need to be controlled as always. Without this control, it's the end of the human race. Take the United States, for example, that massiness of this country is because people got too much freedom. Even more laughable is American think they are living in the best country in the world. 😂😂

[@Harthorn]

@Tropic Lightning lol

[@drinaz4070]

I used to visit often in the 1990's. Taiwan is a great country with very intelligent, industrious, and friendly people. The food is really good too! Too bad their sensible approach to combating this (or any potential) epidemic will likely be ignored by the world. And that would be a damn shame.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

They closed the border with China and checked everybody and test test test. It called being proactive big time.

[@jeffsimmons6064]

@Hobo AUSTRALIA, ITALY, USA, ENGLAND DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING ????

[@Harthorn]

@Max Lee huh?

[@katemakeup]

Taiwan have thousands of reasons not to trust China so the actions they took were the correct ones.

[@badassnamed8007]

Tauwan checked everybody? And test*3? In fact two months later from January, Taiwan gov only test less than 20,000 people, it is what you call checked everybody?

[@katemakeup]

@@badassnamed8007 where did you get your information?

[@undefinedfreedom8580]

I much prefer the Taiwanese ‘s approach. It is much more focus and does not destroy everyone ‘ s life.

[@Buffypoodle]

undefined freedom Their approach only works if you contain it early enough

[@markhenley3097]

@@Buffypoodle Which most European countries could do, if they didn't take too long to respond. South Korea had a superspreader event and was able to contain it too, when it was looking worse than Italy for a while, so it is possible.

[@eduardochavacano]

now that everyone thinks Taiwan is safe, wait for foreigners to rush in and invade the little island. Good luck.

[@jahbz10]

@@markhenley3097 i agree with you . But the deed has been done and other countries will have to resort to lockdowns because of the high level of contagion. The super spreader event in South Korea was unique on its own, and that it was way easier to contain because it was a religious activity where all members of the congregation can be easily traced, unlike the mardi gras in New Orleans where you can just bump into random people. So what do we tell our governments? Next time when it comes to public health issues, don't be too complacent.

[@lujoseph3364]

@@eduardochavacano Not correct! Taiwan has not shut down the boarder for its own citizens only, foreigners are not allowed to enter the country unless they have PR or specific visa.

[@alfrednored4681]

Everyone wears a mask in Taiwan!! This is important, why they didn’t mention it in the interview??

[@merrick6484]

Because that might create another panic buying on Surgical Mask in Australia which is running short at this moment. And yes, every Taiwanese citizens are wearing Surgical Masks in public. The one that used by medical staffs in hospitals. There were not enough surgical masks for every citizen at the beginging, but the government bought the mask machines and started production by soldiers. Yes, by soldiers.

[@那人冷靜一點]

@@merrick6484 the mask shortage that Chinese made

[@merrick6484]

@@那人冷靜一點 I think China is also up their Mask production, so as rest of the Far Eastern Asian countries.

[@vengefulspirit99]

The reason why anyone would tell you not to wear a mask is to make sure that medical professionals have enough supply. People will start panic buying again

[@videonaj]

@@merrick6484 They are way behind the eight ball. You dont need surgical masks to be protected as so many other types of masks will provide protection, n95 masks, smog protection masks, even scarfs.

[@rickmitchell7835]

Taiwan is awesome! Honest and disciplined!

[@wed_33]

The footage of the film is from China. It is not the friendly Island country Taiwan. But yes Taiwan has reacted fast because she has learned a lot from SARS.

[@roybaty7439]

Taiwan is warmer and the virus doesn’t like warm weather

[@Laurence0227]

Roy Baty we are quite cold and humid in the winter

[@roybaty7439]

Laurence0227 Taipei is in the 70s all week, not as cool as most of the US currently, latitude of 25 degrees N, same as warm Miami FL

[@Laurence0227]

Roy Baty you mean Feranheit?

[@roybaty7439]

Laurence0227 of course

[@thfdljsxnuyql]

As a Japanese, I wish the Japanese Government had learnt lesson from how the Taiwanese Government had succesfully and swiftly responded against the very first spread of the Coronavirus at the end of January. The rest of the whole world should learn from them that the Chinese Communist Party is never to be trusted under any circumstances. So gallant nation with determined leaders to protect the country and the people!! Admirable!!! 我愛台灣！日台友好！！🇯🇵🇹🇼🇯🇵🇹🇼🇯🇵🇹🇼

[@learningtho582]

Not only Taiwanese government took the quarantine seriously since they first heard the outbreak in China, Taiwanese also know China too well, and almost everyone wear masks and disinfect their environment routinely. It's simply good public health practice, people working together and never trust China.

[@eduardochavacano]

Taiwan should now legalize Gay Marriage to make a statement that they are nothing like HK and Singapore.

[@jy.6292]

@@eduardochavacano Taiwan already legalized Gay Marriage on May 17, 2019! Taiwan is the first country in Asia to legalize gay marriage🌈

[@tia2579]

He didn't say almost all the Taiwanese wear face mask to protect themselves, mask can help you!!!

[@wipeout2098]

Yep, I was thinking that too. While other countries don't have enough masks even for medical professionals, Taiwan has made so many masks they can donate them to other countries.

[@Back909]

@@wipeout2098 We Taiwanese asking government a new version of mask app recently,to add "donation mask" option in mask app. so we can donate our own masks to the world ,we can buy 9 pieces /14days from government from this week. We love to save more masks, for someone who in needs. ( KMT party blame government about mask policy,said shouldn't donate to foreign,if we can't have 1 mask/per day. ) KMT is China's ass licker. They support Ccp.they are more like Chinese, not Taiwanese. We real Taiwanese want to shut thier mouths off , if we donate our personal masks ,they have no excuse to blame. real Taiwanese love to help others.

[@Back909]

Just want to get clear..some KMT Taiwanese confusing westerners in many English channels,they claim they are Taiwanese,but support China. Don't be fooled by them.they are Taiwanese version wumao!

[@peiwenwang4678]

Yes, indeed. We have been trained and taught frequently by local physicians to wear a surgery mask during flu seasons to stay healthy. It contributes to Taiwanese national health insurance that makes seeing our local physicians so convenient and affordable. With constant contacting with medical professions, Taiwanese people are so familiar with medical knowledge and highly self-alert for taking epidemic seriously. Wearing a mask is an ordinary thing here , I believe this is another key reason we have so far controlled the situation.

[@wipeout2098]

@@Back909 That's awesome. Taiwan really has been the world leader with this crisis. :D

[@williamzabiski7653]

he forgot- almost all wear masks

[@jasonlarnach6770]

@Ronove spot on mate.

[@ChromaToneMusic]

That's the naritive cuz they don't have them it's dishonest!

[@maccasnz3436]

I wonder why he didnt mention masks. Everyone wears them

[@grumpycarlsworld]

If we treated the virus with the level of seriousness we do for overstaying a parking meter by 5 minutes, or exceeding the speed limit by 3kp/h, we'd be a lot further ahead than we are.

[@americarsqueensland1667]

Indeed, you're 100% correct, to motivate the dimhead people in Government you simply have to create a series of fines, then you'll see some real action and fast.

[@robwhite240z]

Years ago it was ' SERVE and PROTECT ' now it is ' STING and COLLECT '

[@youtubehand]

Fun fact#1 Taiwan is disallowed to be a WHO member because of Communist China doesn't want it to be. The exclusion somehow forced Taiwan to act on its own without following the advises and guidelines provided by WHO. Funfact#2 WHO director general Tendro, who I beleive all you have seen on TV, is also the former Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs. And Between 2000 and 2014, China provided over $12 billion in loan finance. Fun fact#3 The Chinese appear to be interested in Ethiopia for political reasons (among African countries, its governance and developmental orientation is closest to that of China, and it hosts the African Union headquarters), and as a business partner. Well, you cannot help to wonder WHO effectiveness and untold role in this global pandemic stage.

[@ingridhung6950]

Sky News, please be more professional, Taiwan use traditional chinese characters. The clips in this interview are in China, they use simplified chinese .

[@1969cmp]

Taiwan put measures into place on NYE. As soon as the PRC sneezed, they went into action.

[@explicitDTP]

Numbers don't add up though

[@1969cmp]

@Steve1963 D ....in regards to this outbreak, it was late December. Earlier Sars and other outbreaks has Taiwan and Singapore on a constant watch of what happens in the PRC

[@skylaralexis7699]

😂 hilariously put!

[@wxonwxoff]

I've been through Taipei airport 6 times and I have to tell you, the bathrooms there are the cleanest than any other airport I've ever seen. People, there are civilized, not like the experience I had in Shanghai and Saigon where I constantly having to tell someone off for budding in line and rudeness. The contrast is amazing.

[@rayc3103]

I'm Chinese Canadian, and I'm ashamed of my ethnicity because of this. I applaud Taiwan for what they've done. Do not trust the WHO or CPP.

[@caribbeanchild]

Discipline is the difference. You don't have a hope in hell.

[@johnw2698]

obedience is not discipline

[@joannehh]

Just so everyone’s clear about this, Taiwan has tried to warn WHO about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan back in late December, and the only response from WHO was simply “Noted.” Tells you a whole lot about WHO....or what Taiwanese people commonly referred to as the “Winnie Happy Organization” (Winnie the Pooh is a cute name for Xi, for those of you who are not familiar)

[@lin1152]

Yeah, btw, literally Everyone in Taiwan call this virus Wuhan Pneumonia instead of Coronavirus or Covid-19.

[@danielt6689]

Message to Trump… This is what "we got it under control" looks like.

[@markmccreadie6549]

Daniel T actually this is what don’t trust the Chinese looks like. Thanks for playing

[@danielt6689]

@@markmccreadie6549 - Another don't trust Asians they all look alike. Yeah, gotcha buddy…

[@elsieah]

Most of Taiwanese are quite highly sensitive of the Chinese government and coughing/sneezing/soar throat symptoms, my temperature has to be checked 3-4 times per day including taking the metro/train, always wearing face masks in public. Also, each building is providing sanitizer, so you don't really have to bring it by yourself). BTW, I have to correct you that your video from 3:03 -3:32 is China, not Taiwan lol

[@lorrycamill941]

Not only Taiwan 🇹🇼 doesn’t trust communist but no one ,here in Australia 🇦🇺 Chinese are emptying super markets and sending containers of baby food ,and toilet 🚽 papers and washing powder and tin food that shows that they have no trust in there goverment

[@siger03]

I LOVE TAIWAN! It's such an amazing country to live in! 🇹🇼 Taiwan Number 1!

[@emilyemily172]

Thank you very much !!!!!

[@yerri5567]

Naussicaa Regis Except Taiwan isnt a "country"...The media is spreading fake news.

[@jrw8942]

@@yerri5567 Taiwan is definitely a country. Taiwan is Taiwan; china is china. Two regimes, two governments. That's the reality

[@sinoroman]

not a recognized nation-state, so it's like a person living in the US not registered (yes, they are a human being and they reside on earth but they are not allowed to be a citizen). Republic of China is the same, an unregistered place.

[@jrw8942]

@@sinoroman you are brainwashed

[@jamie810701]

How come the whole footage was in China when the topic is talking about Taiwan ?

[@jocelynhuang7759]

3:03-3:30 was in China.

[@bradlee3098]

The interesting part is those China footage matches what Matt Carney said about Taiwan. See how unprofessional Sky News is...

[@AngKamiSherpa]

Thank you for a great News.I used to live in New York for 19 years.but right now I live in Taiwan.Government System is so good here and public also are so good here all of them very polite and very honest Taiwanese People.May God bless all of us around the world.

[@robertschrader]

Yep! Life here in Taiwan is normal. Just had a lovely lunch outside today!

[@eduardochavacano]

well life was normal in Japan too. Now its burning because people heard its good there, so they rush to get there!

[@junggiebeom5261]

Lucky wish I could feel the same but I haven’t went outside since a month 😭

[@robertschrader]

@@eduardochavacano Nice, just blame foreigners. What a stupid comment!

[@victoriannecastle]

@@robertschrader I don't think he's blaming foreigners. There are no flights for anyone to go to Japan

[@IamINERT]

@@eduardochavacano Japan isn't even testing

[@revalt2778]

these Taiwan tactics will be ignored by the glodal gov influenced aussie polies

[@marianmalcolm4199]

Taiwan’s new slogan: The only national government that has brains 😂

[@user-xg2dk7ff2k]

+ Singapore

[@reisatsuki5891]

+ South Korea

[@marianmalcolm4199]

Elreypachuco Yeah South Korea did a good job too but Taiwan has had much less deaths from covid so I thought they did better.

[@marianmalcolm4199]

Kel Singapore has a very efficient government they can be proud of but geographically speaking they are the size of just one large city.

[@nowbetter6517]

@@marianmalcolm4199 We could have done whole lot of better if we didn't have that damned cult m*f*s who became the superspreader.

[@onbailup]

They have heard of PPE and procedures, Australia hasn't discovered these things yet so they use panic and overreaction instead.

[@octopusslayer7621]

But most of our panic is being initiated by the government.

[@billporter1415]

@Ronove they said that because the chinese did a 2 month raid of masks in australia,so there is a shortage

[@billporter1415]

@Ronove hey said that because the chinese did a 2 month raid of masks in australia,so there is a shortage

[@mickr4969]

I guess it depends on which mask you're wearing. (Maybe)

[@stevenlee7195]

That’s because the country is the only country in the world NOT to listen to WHO.

[@georgewong6615]

except Yankees

[@justthink5597]

We are a bunch of dopes here, unbievable and thick. Weeks ago when I had a fever my doc told me to jump on a tram and come down! 2 weeks later they tell me they finally have a covid triarge room. We had all the time in the world to get ready for this and we've f'ed it up, asleep at the wheel, focused on the wrong things.

[@lotstolearn5350]

A deliberate plan that was rehearsed in NYC on Oct. 18th, '19. This plandemic is on schedule. Only Asian countries will protect their economies.

[@lexcyrose5376]

I’m a Taiwanese and this is absolutely true. Nothing has really changed here except that everyone is wearing a mask(we have to wear a mask in order to go out) and people are helping us test our temperature everywhere(stores, restaurants, schools,...) This is not convenient, but necessary👍👍👍

[@onetop5061]

Australia should recognize Taiwan as a country in UN and start business with them.

[@yakkun1926]

I want to say a huge thanks to the Sky News AU team. Your coverage is on point, objective and you're not afraid of the facts. This is quite rare nowadays I think. Cheers from the Czech Rep.

[@icedtea1336]

The footage shown from 3:03 to 3:30 is China not Taiwan, as it can be clearly noticed by the signs showing Simplified Chinese (used in China) in stead of Traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan). I appreciate your news coverage of Taiwan, but please use actual footage of Taiwan. Taiwan is not part of communist China, so please do not use footage of China for news about Taiwan.

[@tizfrreecharm]

It seems apparent that Taiwan doesn't have U.S. Democrats to deal with

[@davidgrover5996]

Or commie leaders afraid of the citizenry revolting if the government reports a disease as it would be a sign the government has lost the “Mandate of Heaven”.

[@globalgourmand]

I'd go so far as to say that we have our progressive leadership in Taiwan to THANK for many of the wise decisions made in handling this virus.

[@christinec6533]

Hey, I should let you know, that the government of Taiwan is Democratic and even more radically "democratic" than the U.S democrat party. They promote socialist systems like federal health care and larger central government control. In other words, Taiwan doesn't have to deal with the U.S Republican to deal with.

[@Raygo.]

The reason Taiwan has been in control of this thing from the get go is very simple. THEY WERE PREPARED! The scientific experts have been predicting for years that an outbreak like this was coming. The minute they saw it coming, the Taiwanese were honest and open and started testing people and taking steps to contain it. The reason the situation in the US is a total fuck-up is also very simple. Donald Trump is the president. So all the scientific warnings were ignored. Pandemic experts were fired back in 2018 and the NSC global pandemic department shut down. Why? Just 'cos Obama set it up I think. Then tRump lies his ass off for 6 weeks as usual: "It's a hoax. It's nothing, it'll go away like a miracle. We got it under control." Meanwhile no one is being tested, there is no leadership, no preparedness, just the usual tRump BS. But sure, go ahead and find a way to blame the media and the Dems... lol

[@flyingbears5635]

@@davidgrover5996 Taiwan or republic of china is Democrat country. R u dumb!

[@趙士評]

By the way, the footage shown during Mr. Carney's interview is China, not Taiwan.

[@bumihijau5670]

Taiwan also ensures sufficient masks in the country and gives out masks to its residents for free.

[@WayneLu12345]

Many Chinese haters are here, we still love you. God bless everyone from Taiwan

[@mariadlr3774]

Taiwan the best!!!

[@purebloodbabyfuhrer785]

We hate the CCP not the Chinese people. Unless they are agents of the CCP. We have many of those in Australia.

[@purebloodbabyfuhrer785]

@Archnid 001I am in the west and Asian people are not discriminated.

[@MsDesiree39]

the pple who are losing their loved ones the world over due to the wuhan virus have every reason not to love u

[@MsDesiree39]

@Archnid 001 i iive in Canada, most of the racists i meet are asian so dont even play the race card here

[@tokekkk]

This made me want to move to Taiwan. People are well mannered compared to China, and the food are obviously better

[@MenGrowingTOWin]

People in Taiwan wear masks. When they are told to quarantine, they don't just wonder off into the community like the Aussies have been doing.

[@mccheeseburger01]

Make masks mandatory for all citizens.

[@Jry088]

That's what being proactive does for ya instead of being reactive. Out of the 265 people MAJORITY of them are people who traveled back to Taiwan. I'm so proud of Taiwan.

[@timheyer5660]

I visit Taiwan twice a year, I notice the 'contrast' every time I come back.

[@Kiwichico]

This should be on all news media.

[@VG-cz7yg]

Good grief, why isn't our Government taking notice of this, I feel for those people who have lost their jobs, we need to get them back to work ASAP. Test and self isolate, test and self isolate, other countries are doing this and are avoiding crippling their economies by doing this. Mr Morrison please take note before it is too late for our economy.

[@jimisi7424]

I live in Taiwan. Apart from wearing a mask for 2 months. Nothing has changed. It’s not rocket science either. Just a lot of checking

[@huangjacqueline9581]

Actually, besides lots of checking, Taiwan actually also uses AI to detect potential high-risk persons.

[@waza987]

He’s in isolation from other Australians not us from him. He’s much less likely to have it than anyone here.

[@pearlyshells2430]

I'm in Qatar and to go back home (OZ) doesn't seem like a smart move...safer here and every day where I am staying (hotel) mandatory temperature check, mask, hand sanitizer......and no lockdown (city) just limited movement and all non essential shops closed. So I must agree with your statement. At present I'm good as gold.

[@jennytai88]

waza987 lol lol exactly my thought

[@dcbeez5956]

Yes, hell probably catch it here

[@AlexofOctagon]

I worked in Taiwan 20 years ago and these temperature taking measures were already in place then. It worked in all virus pandemics we had since then very well. So there is no excuse for other countries of not knowing a well working system, including the WHO. Why most countries incl. Australia follow the most damaging economical path and extreme cutting down of personal freedom has to be answered soon by our politicians in charge.

[@ausforaus7617]

So .... this is showing clearly how incompetent our politicians are

[@sherreewilson925]

AusforAus Sure is. Changing every 5 Minutes about the what to do and not what to do. Then taking in people off boats, when they said ,no more deliveries. Unbelievable. The Welcome To Australia Sign hasn’t been taken down yet. Strange.

[@lotstolearn5350]

It's NOT incompetence. It's a series of deliberate decisions with an objective, looking at which makes the process comprehensible.

[@ausforaus7617]

@@lotstolearn5350 Nah ..... they are not smart enough to have an objective.

[@lotstolearn5350]

AusforAus : All politicians are, at best, puppets dancing to the tune of those who ensured their election.

[@cd2949]

great capture on life in Taiwan. I live in Taipei (actually New Taipei City). Mat's report was accurate. we also use hand sanitizer in our home and keep things clean. we also have hand sanitizer in our building and people in general don't really worry too much, just follow the recommendations. it's really an eye opener when compared to my US experience. I think the practice Asia has had with SARS, H1N1, etc as well as the cultural norm where the rules aren't really a big inconvenience makes the response really effective. Still only have around 300 cases and most are imports not locals. May get worse, but I think we already are keeping the curve pretty flat.

[@stenkarasin2091]

If our govt. is half smart it'll learn from places like Taiwan or Singapore, etc but will there be enough equipment to follow suit or the organizational ability to so so??

[@NegativeAccelerate]

stenka rasin depends on your population size

[@h3lldiv3r]

learn from them on how to prevent the outbreak.

[@SYP1019]

Some videos about Taiwan were not really filmed in Taiwan, but from China. They should have chosen correct resources.

[@jaswiny7704]

The real difference maker is face masks being worn by most in Taiwan while Australia still tells people no need to wear any

[@williamhunt3026]

Taiwan knows China very well all way ..TAIWAN always smile but protect the country..WELL DONE .

[@chun-yuchen7258]

Good for the country of Taiwan, and way to really donate to USA and Europe, unlike their neighbor who sale PPE.

[@bryanmin4008]

Taiwan number 1!!!!!!!!!!

[@SH-ef3eb]

Beautiful Formosa Taiwan 🇹🇼

[@ericchen1042]

The film starts at 3:04 and ends at 3:30. It was not filmed in Taiwan, this is mainland China. Taiwan ’s railway or subway stations use infrared images to automatically detect the temperature of passengers, rather than manually. In addition, bus Before every departure, they must be disinfected. Taiwan does a good job, I am Taiwanese.

[@lightsky1]

Just need to clarify that during the interview while the student telling the thing about Taiwan's airport, the screen showed the place people taking the temperature on their forehead and another scene of sanitizing the bus are both NOT TAIWAN. This is misleading your audience. Sky News Australia might just want to show the action of temperature taking or sanitizing environment, however, it will confuse people of where those place actually is. And it's not professional.

[@Mrskateboardboy]

Closing down the country to fight the virus doesn't make sense. The cure is as bad as the problem. We need to fight it intelligently, even if it means curtailing our accepted rights. That's a slippery slope, however. How many Canadians, for example, would trust their PM Trudeau with a move like that!! This guy's experience at the airport is astonishing. What the governments SAY they are doing to protect the public is NOT what is really happening. It is all blah-blah for public consumption.

[@l21n18]

Well now their curtailing more freedoms in other countries because of it anyways

[@thekrutchinator]

No surprises there! Australua is renowned for incompetence! Has anyone been sscked over the cruise shi0?

[@pearlyshells2430]

so much wrong about that fiasco.....they really have no idea....me ol mate propping up the bar would have more of an idea.

[@thekrutchinator]

@@pearlyshells2430 Gazza from Goondiwindi for PM sounds cool!

[@lotstolearn5350]

The very lack of consequences indicates it was all part of the plan to let the virus become fully established in the country before any real steps were taken to contain it.

[@dcbeez5956]

If you're going to criticise Australia in that manner, you should learn how to speak and spell. Why bother you may as well return from whence you came, but hopefully you are not in Australia already.✔️

[@thekrutchinator]

@@dcbeez5956 if that's all you are worried about you must be doing ok!... elitist!

[@spacey7052]

Why aren’t we taking this more seriously? Otherwise we will end up like the US..

[@silviag3798]

Good for Taiwan, I hope this becomes their chance to shine.

[@Jason-sf8vx]

We can learn a lot from Taiwan, well done

[@c32b34]

Taiwan is a successful Democracy country. People in Taiwan respect the right, the freedom they have and they don't abuse it.

[@apt62]

Sue Su you sure about that? The laws in Taiwan is a joke, top college grads are making less than 1k a month.

[@sunnycoastQLD]

Hmmm I’m a nurse, and what Taiwan did, is what I would have advocated when we knew it could only be brought in by travelers. Isolate and protect the vulnerable and keep everyone else functioning. Taiwan has has to face SARS and they learnt from that what measures to implement from the get-go.

[@elsjemassyn8921]

Brilliant info thanx.....my respect goes out to Taiwan 🇹🇼 great job guys and girls 👌

[@jocelynhuang7759]

Thank you.

[@paulc8607]

If all this is indeed true, (which I believe it is) then this should be the top story for the world to hear. It's bloody embarrassing! Typical "She'll-be-right" attitude at Aussie airports of all places! And 2/3 cases in Australia are related to overseas travel. Who is allowing this lack of control to happen at our airports!?

[@huangjacqueline9581]

Paul C All of them are true. I’m Taiwanese Australian. I hope AU gov can do the same.

[@scottydees2748]

Face it mate. There's some country's that have strong ties and care for their neighbours, and a national pride. We no longer share these traits. We're not encouraged to. Look at any of the country's supposedly having big issues with this flu, they also are counties that no longer have an identity or compassion for their neighbours.

[@chozie-alexjonesislegit8566]

Yep, where is the Aussie pride 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺? I guess to many softy and lefty running the shows and wants a complete chaos and economic crash to hurt the normal ordinary people.

[@chozie-alexjonesislegit8566]

Only the sheep and low iq can’t see that .

[@scottydees2748]

Yep. Implementing communism is reliant on a people being totally government dependant, and willing to spy on and dob in a friend or neighbour. Definitely not the Australia I knew.

[@samwang1439]

As a student in Taiwan like me, I saw that most of the student whom hasn't experienced SARS is not afraid of COVID-19. So that means part of the young people still don't wear a mask when they are in public place. But luckily, teachers do the job of supervising students implement precautions correctly.

[@blobfishking9143]

The QLD police must pass the info to VIC police. We are a stupid country

[@tcpiptv]

There should only be 2 tiers of government anyhow with national databases for everything.

[@kiwiingrid]

Yes NZ was like that until govt decided to just shut down and send us home. Taiwan should have screamed it louder to the world. Everyone knows that China won't tell you the truth. Glad we are locked down but I feel for Oz. You haven't even started yet.

[@huangjacqueline9581]

@@kiwiingrid We tried but no one listened because we are not a member of WHO.

[@ozrob8726]

Taiwan gets it right because it's a wonderfully progressive country and learns from China's propaganda. I loved my time there. NEVER let China influence you in any way. Power to all Taiwanese people.

[@Whitney_tw]

3:07-3:31 is not Taiwan. Taiwan only use traditional Chinese.

[@wendynicholss6886]

Agree with the temperature checking!! I haven't been able to buy a thermometer so if they had this facility in shops etc and you were tested daily you would know right away if you were running a temperature and could self isolate!

[@J33337]

Large family arrived in Perth last week from Iraq. Seen at shopping centres, out and about even though told to isolate. Neighbors told police, but no recourse. Source channel 9 news.

[@lotstolearn5350]

Equality under the law ?

[@edwinsylvester8946]

Hats off to Taiwan!! Good people!!

[@PippaMarks]

Wow 😖 I have no words 😳

[@elizabeth5193]

And, because the culture and norm in Asia is to wear masks, they trust restaurant workers who are handling their food to wear masks, and so restaurants don't need to shut down

[@michaelpudney]

Temperature test people at the entrance of supermarkets.It's not that hard.

[@losangels6893]

Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan= these countries are doing excellent job against coronavirus.

[@johnnyhshify]

Please don't jinx it, hoping rest of the world follows through and gets better

[@t64926183]

03:25 its ridiculous that you're reporting Taiwan's situation but showing video footages from China

[@CA2SD]

So much respect for both Taiwan and SKorea.

[@relaxingnature2617]

You forgot to mention tiawan has "universal masking" of ALL people

[@miffy2760]

Unbelievably inept government we have!!!

[@lotstolearn5350]

Not at all. They're very good at following instructions. Consequences ...

[@tronicit]

They use what works instead of what they fear might happen to determine what steps they take. Also, they trust their governments.

[@stefs3460]

Very similar to response to SARS. They took your temperature before entering any building then too.

[@hypnopompicstate9910]

Not enough masks or hand sanitizer in Australia to do that. It was all sent to China earlier this year, wasn't it?

[@scoutmockingbird3833]

82 Tonnes of product.

[@utube1412]

Yes a lot was. www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-backed-company-s-mission-to-source-australian-medical-supplies-20200325-p54du8.html

[@coyala815]

Taiwan Banned exporting and international mailing these products around January. Meanwhile, they started expanding the production lines for masks and protecting clothes along with importing required materials.All around late January

[@scoutmockingbird3833]

@@utube1412 Thanks

[@amandajane28]

Currently living in Da Nang, Vietnam. This morning at one of the shopping malls I had to stand in line and get my hands sprayed and have my temp tested. Hand sanitizer is in all the coffee shops. Previously lived in Ho Chi Minh for 8 months, most people wear masks, even before the virus hit.

[@pranks1457]

They are also all wearing masks

[@daskarman]

Truly amazing - definitely a good example to follow!

[@quontumleeep9430]

Hey, we can't be spending Aussie Taxes on formulating pandemic response plans, respirators and by funding adequate Bushfire fighting equipment. We need that money to dish out to sports clubs so it can be rorted and wasted! Governments should stop funding sport and use the money on upgrading infrastructure and future-proofing against the inevitable.

[@liamg2271]

The two countries that have done the best job by far combating COVID-19 are Taiwan and Iceland.