As a proponent of decentralization, do you also support the decentralized protocol for contact tracing app, DP3T?

Great! So your strategy against Cod19 was to bring more people on the Join platform and channels.

Minister, what is more effective in battling Coivid19, democracy or authoritarianism?

Thank you. Bye-bye.

We’ll let you know once it’s published. It might take seven days because we’re a print magazine so there are some days…

Thank you so much, Minister. That was great. Thank you for your time.

It’s important for us that you spoke to us because there’s a tendency to hype and promote authoritarian reactions towards COVID. It seems to me that you’re not convinced that the authoritarian response is better.

Are you seeing signs that the Europeans or the Westerners are more open to more collaboration with Taiwan now as a result of your experience?

That’s amazing. That would have changed the course of history, I guess. You don’t think so?

The world has lost 10 days in the battle against COVID, because we didn’t listen to your early advanced warning?

What would be the best sentence if I ask you, what would have happened if we had listened or if the WHO would be open? Your answer could be, “You could have avoided hundreds of thousands of people dying.”

Honorable Minister, I’m trying to make you give me a great quote what we have lost here in Europe and internationally by excluding the valuable information that you were trying to share. That’s what I’m trying to push you.

If we had listened to that warning you were trying to give to the international political and media community, could we have avoided…? What would have been the effect?

WHO didn’t listen to your warning.

Last question touching on the WHO situation. Taiwan realized the emergence of the virus on December 31st. You’ve tried to reach out to the WHO.

That’s fascinating. Are you about to build an island community, particularly, an island community in the battle of COVID, an international island?

That reminds of, is there any country that you are looking at? You’re always hailed as the world’s leading country or most ahead on the epidemiological curve probably, is there any country, Iceland, for example, had zero new cases, Greenland, as well?

Are you not scared of a second wave to come? Do you fear that? Is there any special measures, looking ahead towards this event, that you’ve newly installed?

How do you do it? How…?

This is what you do in Taiwan.

What is the most important lesson, with an example at best, to avoid losing democracy in this battle against COVID?

Taiwan, because of its isolation as an island, how much do those success reflect upon a country that has continental situation? Can we compare that?

Two last things that I missed and then I have my 30 minutes up, I guess.

Do you think this moment is a chance for Taiwan to demonstrate how your strength in democracy to a larger audience than usually…?

Are you worried looking at Europe from abroad having traveled to Europe many times, that we might lose our democratic liberties and that we might even give it up voluntarily because of COVID for longer-term?

In that regard, using participatory technologies has helped, but not in terms of their particular effectiveness.

That’s a good point for Switzerland, particularly, with our bottom-up culture.

The People’s Republic of China, currently in Europe, gets high praise for being able to effectively manage and counter COVID. Do you think Taiwan, with the opposite of the strategy, openness, keeping shops open, publication of the information, was even more successful?

That’s very good. Great. Thank you.

Right. Let me screenshot.

You’re using an openness approach, publishing information. You have a website as well that’s very transparent on the cases. What do you see data risks here in terms of publishing too much about a particular person? What should Europe refrain from using? What would be your guidelines?

Thank you for sending the masks. That was great. Do you still have rationing of masks and the technology to show where and when you can buy?

Could you name probably the most popular or your favorite project here in terms of open technologies?

I get it. What are the biggest surprises in Taiwan’s fight against COVID for you personally looking at these things, in particular, looking at the role of technology, I guess?

The actual importance of masks is signaling to others and reminding yourself that you should…

I get it.

If you look at it from the outside and you hear this discussion about Europe or Germany and Switzerland, which is the leader in the decentralized technology and for apps, do you think this will help us a lot or we should focus on other tools?

Are you looking at this seriously considering it an option to implement one of those app technologies?

If you look at this tracing app debate in Europe…I know you’re much of an expert being a…

Soap and alcohol. That’s great.

How important are masks? If you could pick for your country, would you pick masks or a contact tracing app?

Then, thirdly, there’s the idea that tech could solve it all, because we set up a giant contact tracing system that will help us define who’s sick and sort these people out, probably. Your overall perspective on is there any one most important tool and how big do you think ...

You mentioned contact tracing. There is a bigger question here first. There’s a big discussion about physical tools, even physical barriers and clothing shops that are too small. On the other side, there’s this idea of social distancing, which is a social tool.

What do you think has been the impact of the legendary People’s Republic of China 50 Cent Army on spreading disinformation? Can you speak about this?

That’s somebody getting something wrong.

That’s misinformation, right?

Also, there are penalties on spreading disinformation. How are they?

You’re also seeking to limit disinformation. How do you do that?

You’re encouraging citizens to call 1922 and to give their suggestions or give observations. It’s not a spying line where you would…

There’s also this number, 1922, that I was interested in.