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Originally Posted by Hehe

It's not even about freedom.

It's about politicians' choice of their own agendas.

I remember when Taiwan first announced the banning of PPEs export (mainly to China when the outbreak first started), there were public figures who came out criticizing the politicians' bias and compassion.

Not everything is about compassion, caring and whatever face/social value one want to care. Before one can start looking to help others, one must be able to defend itself.

Our PMs in contrast, shipped tons of PPEs to assist China when the outbreak is already making news. It wasn't really because he gave a damn about helping China... it's about constructing that image of "Canadians".

I don't see the PM coming out to apologize the mistake of that decision when Canada was facing PPE shortages.

This is the pathetic state we are in. So many people care more about their image than what's right. It's always about political correctness... always about being that SAINT.

Taiwanese leaders, otoh, put the needs of its citizen first. It never considered a total lockdown because from what Taiwan learned from SARS... it's about tracking and tracing. Lockdown gives you that fake sense of the case dropping, but it destroys the economy as well in the process... again, something Taiwan learned during SARS.

What our gov't needs to do is to take an active approach for a pandemic of this scale. Stop trying to be the nice guy. Be the bad guy during the process... history will come back and clean that up.

You don't like it? Vote me out during next election or sue... but you either obey the rules on how to stay in the public safely or stay home. It's that simple.

You go to where the fight is and not wait for the fight to come to your front door. Also that PPE was about to expire.