During the pandemic, anyone in Taiwan can call a toll-free number, 1922, to say anything they want about the pandemic. Most just ask questions, but a lot actually have actual policy feedback. And there’s this huge call center work that aggregates, blends the common ideas, and so on, into daily 2 p.m. press conferences, which is live-streamed, and any journalist can ask anything. And that went on for three years.

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