But using the idea of humor over rumor, the very next day, we push out this meme where a very cute dog, a Shiba Inu, like the DOGE dog, put her paw to her mouth saying, wear a mask to remind each other to keep your dirty and washed hand from your face. So if I don’t want to wear a mask and you do, you’re just reminding me to wash my hands, which is very good, right? So this deescalated, depolarized the situation. And this association of mask use and handwashing is the uncommon ground. What was the rarely discovered common ground between the two camps. And because we have built more than 100 bridge-making experiences before the pandemic, people generally trust the government to deliver this kind of uncommon ground in a timely manner. So in 2020, the approval rate of the Tsai Ing-wen administration went through the roof, like more than 70%.

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