Original title: Tsai Ing-wen prayed for Taiwan during the Chinese Yuan Festival, but the comment section overturned
(Observer Network News) August 22 is the Lunar New Year’s Day (July 15th of the lunar calendar). According to traditional customs, many people will worship their ancestors. Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen posted a message on Facebook to pray for the people on the island. Continue to implement epidemic prevention measures together, “May Taiwan be safe.”
According to Taiwan media reports, as 154 smuggled cats were euthanized on the 21st, and the shortage of vaccines has not been resolved, Tsai Ing-wen’s post aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people on the island.
Taiwanese netizens left a message and asked Tsai Ing-wen angrily, “Where is the vaccine“, “If you are in Taiwan, it will not be safe”, and also criticized the Taiwan authorities for “getting power and not taking life seriously”, and asked the relevant departments why they did not quarantine first. Euthanize smuggled animals.
According to reports from Taiwanese media such as China Times News and United Daily News, Taiwan’s “Marine Patrol Agency” announced on August 21 that it had found a case of illegal smuggling of unquarantined cats. The “humane euthanasia” procedure for the 154 cats involved was completed at that time.
After the news came out, many angry netizens on the island went to Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook page to crusade, questioning why the Taiwan authorities put an end to those innocent lives so urgently on the International Day of Stray Animals (21st), criticizing them as “too cruel” and “unhuman”. “”Stylish bureaucracy”.
Subsequently, Tsai Ing-wen issued a document late on the 21st condemning the smugglers, saying that the loss of life was the result of the smugglers seeking personal gain and not following legal procedures. He hoped that everyone would understand that in order to protect the island’s animals from the risk of diseases caused by smuggling animals, Relevant departments must implement disposal measures.
Regarding Tsai Ing-wen’s explanation, many Taiwanese, including Taiwan’s People First Party politician Li Zhenghao, did not buy it, and some netizens satirized Tsai Ing-wen, “I don’t even care about the lives of cats and dogs,” he said.
However, some people also expressed their understanding of the Taiwan authorities’ approach, saying that it is justifiable to stand in the anti-epidemic position.
However, after China suspended the import of pineapples from Taiwan in March this year in order to prevent the risk of plant epidemics, Tsai Ing-wen once jumped and called this an “abnormal trade consideration”, and she wanted to express her condemnation. Now that the island encounters quarantine problems, there is no relentlessness.
One day later, on August 22, Tsai Ing-wen re-posted a Facebook page with her own propaganda photo and wrote: “Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. While praying for Taiwan, family and friends, we must continue to implement epidemic prevention together. Measures. May Taiwan be safe.”
At the bottom of this Facebook page, only a few voices are cheering for her, hoping that Taiwan can tide over the difficulties.
However, many Taiwanese netizens are still irritated by the euthanasia of 154 smuggled cats, and they are still asking why they did not quarantine and then euthanize them.
Many netizens also mentioned the natural and man-made disasters in Taiwan this year and questioned the Taiwan authorities’ negligence. Not only was the epidemic prevention and control ineffective, but the number of vaccines purchased was insufficient. They rebuked Tsai Ing-wen for only knowing that he had issued a letter to pray for “atonement,” and he should rush to purchase vaccines.
According to a report from the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center on August 22, 10 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed in Taiwan on the 22nd. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, as of the 22nd, Taiwan has confirmed a total of 15,926 cases of new coronary pneumonia, including 828 deaths.
Although the spread of the epidemic on the island has slowed down, there is still a shortage of vaccines, and many mistakes have been made in the vaccination process. According to the ETtoday News Cloud report, on August 19, there were also three cases in Taichung City that informed vaccinators in advance that they would administer the Modena vaccine. Only after the fight was found that the case was AstraZeneca, which caused dissatisfaction among netizens on the island.
In addition, the Taiwan authorities have spared no effort to promote self-produced “high-end vaccines“, but since no phase three trials have been conducted, their safety and effectiveness have attracted much attention, and the people on the island are not willing to vaccinate the vaccine.
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