Home Quarantine

We decided to put up with the 14-day quarantine when arriving in Taipei and another 14-day when heading back to Hong Kong. The decision was rushed because Taiwanese government will impose stricter quarantine rules after 15th of January. The tigher rule says that you have to quarantine under the assumption that one person per hotel room or apartment. For a couple arriving in Taiwan, you are required to live in a separate room that is equiped with a onsuite toilets and shower. The 2 of you should not see each other although living under the same roof. I do agree that there should be no one who do not require quarantine sharing the same living space, but for a couple living and traveling together before landing in Taiwan, what is the point to have them living in separation? The rule is obnovious and, clearly, the purpose is to stop people from traveling back to Taiwan. I suppose most Taiwanese are very happy about the govenment taking action to shut the boarder - the data does support that early closure of boarder is the key to reduce the COVID cases. However, what is the cost of lock down and how much we allow the state to take control over people's life, these questions are left unanswered because people are geniunly afraid of the virus, and that seems to drain all their brain power. No one is allowed to think differently, if you do not agree to the lock down or mask wearing, you are a murderer and have no rights to express any opinions. Murders should be punished, not to allowed to speak - no fair and honest trail is required. I smell great culture revoluation - where science is not respected, statistic data are ignored, only being politically correct and conform with the crowd can save your life. Anyhow, I am of no interest to challenge the rule - it is not so good not to see my parents for almost a year. We flew home, going through various checking points (filling in lots of forms - strangely the government believes in the power of words. As long as you sign into a form that you are not ill enough time, they believe you are health). We are now staying at home, counting the days when we can go out running, hiking or cycling. The picture was taken by our windsurfing friends back in Cheung Chau island, Hong Kong. We picked up windsurfing just 7 months ago, practiced almost every weekend.