The pandemic in Texas/Carlos Pueblo

 The pandemic in Texas/Carlos Pueblo

The pandemic in Taiwan and the up roaring of the criticism of the Taiwanese government has caught my attention. Yesterday, I posted an article about the pandemic in Texas in compare to the pandemic in Taiwan. Luck me, after that post, I read a piece of information from my College classmates line and another piece of Associate Press news about a Japanese Airline cargo plane landed at Tao-Yuan International airport with 1.25 million doses of Astra Zenica Japan vaccine to help the emergency needs of Taiwan. AP has another piece of news last night about the Chinese effort to vaccinate its own population recently. Suddenly, I understand more about the pandemic picture.

Texas is about 19 times of the size of Taiwan, with a population of a near of 30 million while Taiwan is about 24 million. Texas has a near of 3 million patients infected by this Wuhan Corona Virus disease so far, yet Taiwan has less than 10,000 infected. Texas has 51,515 casualties while Taiwan has less than 500 death so far. In the case of Taiwan, the nation is not severe as Taiwanese media think in compare with our governor Abbot as well as most of the Texan think. There are several reasons why for the difference. Taiwanese government and citizen are more alert with the experience of the SARS in 2003 while Texans have no such experience other than the hurricane and floods even with the advantage of the space. If you understand, there is no need to criticize that much with the Lady President Tsai of Taiwan.

Japan used to be the ruler of Taiwan, 1895-1945 and Taiwan used to be a part of Japanese Empire. Japanese government use a very skillful political maneuver to ship the AZ vaccine to Taiwan. The vaccine is manufactured in Japan under a contract with the British developer. Japan has no current plan to use the vaccine according to the AP. Japan has procured the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines to use for the time being and also has its own development like Taiwan. It is exactly like the AZ US 4 million doses loaned to Mexico and Canada earlier this year. The U.S. has no current use of such vaccine; therefore, they are loans and both nations must pay back in order to satisfy the US budget requirement. I believe that the Japanese AZ is a donation like Taiwanese donate funds to help Japanese earthquake and sunami.

I also read another AP piece news about Chinese roll out of vaccination plan in China. As a matter of the fact, I have watched an You Tube vlog about the final day of 3,000 shots at a town in the Inner Mongolia. The AP report has a much large number of shots, 300 millions for the present. You can't imagine the Chinese regime's number as a matter of the fact. I always wonder how the Chinese propaganda works for the brag about their mission of vaccine distribution around the world. Some White House reporters did ask Biden's opinion about it via Jen Psaki.