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Monday, June 02, 2003But here's the thing: it's hard to stay in quarantine - especially if you feel fine. Taiwan has found it almost impossible to keep citizens in. It's a democracy, but the habits of 40 years of martial law are still vivid - every time the mayor of Taipei exhorted people to stay indoors, he mentioned the exact amounts of fines that would now be imposed. People skipped out anyway. A high school student went to his cram school - several public officials proudly pointed out to me how typical it was that a Chinese student got in trouble by sneaking into school. When he got sick, his school was shut down. A car thief slipped out to steal. A businessman drove across town to close a deal. The author wasn’t so strict with his own quarantine, either. Luckily, he didn’t have SARS. posted by Sydney on 6/02/2003 06:42:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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