{"id":2287,"date":"2021-06-11T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corissajoy.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2021-07-17T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T06:00:20","slug":"life-in-the-time-of-covid-taiwan-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corissajoy.com\/life-in-the-time-of-covid-taiwan-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Time of COVID: Taiwan Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past year and a half, I’ve been extremely grateful to live here. It has been a place largely free of the dangers of COVID-19, a safe bubble, thanks to Taiwan’s rapid response to the initial outbreak, careful contact tracing and strict border control and quarantine enforcement. Taiwan’s response was “among the best<\/a>“. But over the past month we’ve watched our case numbers steadily climb as outbreaks in and around Taipei have spiralled. All because of a simple decision to lessen the length of mandatory quarantine for pilots to three days (I mean, come on government, we all could have told you that was a bad idea). <\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t

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  1. Early Beginnings<\/a>
  2. Then & Now<\/a>
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    Early Beginnings<\/h2>\n\n\n

    Last Chinese New Year, at the end of January in 2020, Luke and I traveled to Japan for vacation. We spent several days each in Tokyo and Osaka, seeing the sights, eating the most amazing food, going to Universal Studios. It was winter, freezing, and I was underdressed and sick the entire time (not with COVID, but some other nasty school-caught cold that I just couldn’t shake). There was one day I couldn’t take anymore traipsing and opted to lay in our tiny Tokyo hostel room, essentially just a bed, watching The Terminal while Luke went galavanting about the city. We both had a blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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