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  It was 50% in one flight. That's not a representative sample.
context: Maybe I’m a dumbie but why aren’t they tested before they leave China? >
  
  Taiwan wants to be in control. They wouldn't trust the results if China were to do the testing. Besides, people might test negative before departure, but positive on arrival. It's much better to test on arrival. >
  
  What does Taiwan do if someone tests positive upon arrival? Just quarantine them? >
  
  Don’t places like Taiwan have more systematic methods of containing this due to experiences with initial SARS outbreaks? >
  
  I think everyone has given up on containment and moved on to mitigation. Even Australia gave up on it and my wife had friends living there during peak covid, going to concerts etc and saying “we don’t have covid here!” But it happened. It’s not sustainable, but sensibility about how to exist within it is sustainable. >
  
  I think "given up" is the wrong thing to say here. It was always the goal to get to a good vaccination / immunity rate (bonus if the virus mutated to become less dangerous) and then move to mitigation. It was never possible to contain this. >
  
  Optimistically, it sounds like they are past their peak then. >
  
  Looks like that is the case for the big cities only. In the countryside the wave has yet to reach the peak. >
  
  Wait til after lunar new year. >
  
  Milan a few weeks ago said it was 50% so the wave must be waning. I was looking at some Chinese themed subreddits maybe around 5 days out of covid curiosity and there was an informal poll of who has caught Covid in this wave and around 80% said they've caught it. The original Omicron wave hits super fast and is over in like 6-8 weeks. So since they opened up at the end of November or early December and with that informal poll, this thing could be almost over and the last locked down country will join the rest of the world.