Off Topic Discussion Thread

Yesterday I deleted a post talking about a perceived problem on the board and the moderation of said issue / the board. I didn't just try to hide this though because I did pm the poster and now I am posting this.

This post had recieved iirc 2 thanks so perhaps others agreed with this and the poster of this post also said that he had been discussing this issue with others via PM who agreed with him. Despite this I believe the issue mentioned had only seen one reported post on the matter despite being described as an on going situation.



Mod Note:

If you have an issue with something posted on the forum. Report it. If a few people agree something is dodgy, those people should report it. If this actions repeats or if you believe the moderators are not taking action feel free to report when it is repeated or to go over the mods heads to the paid boards staff.

If issues are not reported they may be missed, if something is reported by more than one person it is less likely to be missed. I for one have no issue either with people going over my head as a mod.

I've stated on here recently that I have a newborn kid and I live in Taiwan so my time differences make me miss things so you can be pretty sure I am not reading everything on the board atm.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

So how soon will you be teaching Cian about wrestling

I thought Taiwan was in China or very near so has it no lockdown or much Covid cases

Take Care

Wrestling is on the list, the lil fellah already had an Irish Rugby jersey :pac:



Taiwan is 100% an independent country in everything but recognition by most of the world (aka the countries who don't want to p!ss off China). Hell there are even massive parades celebrating what is essentially Taiwan's independence day every 10/10 but China just turns a blind eye to it. In fact it was /is a kind of ongoing international incident that Taiwan was (still is) excluded from the WHO (world health organization) because Taiwan could have shared it's medical info with them and the world but instead they ignored them due to the WHOs ties to China and repeated it was part of China.

New Zealand for example, a country many claim to be the shining light in terms of their dealing with the Covid19 scenario actually followed taiwan's lead with regards a lot of things. Here is one article (only googled for 2 seconds although most publications avoid the Taiwan issue altogether) that mentions it.

One of the big things is that Taiwan didn't believe a word coming out of China at the offset of the situation (unlike most due to Taiwan's past and ongoing issues with China) this lead to Taiwan insisting on having medical teams on the ground in Wuhan last december. As a result of this they shut off flights from Wuhan when the government in China were still massively suppressing information about the virus to other nations.

At that point China and the WHO were still repeating that the virus could not be spread person to person. This made most countries more lax with regards enforcing restrictions on China, air travel etc than Taiwan

and this is one of the main reasons that right now despite being the closest country to China and having much of it's population working in China in the same way Ireland does in England the current number of cases in Taiwan is 440, with 361 recovered and only 6 deaths.

Compare that to the 1,446 deaths from Covid in Ireland!

Actually a lot of the actual reported cases in Taiwan came from a second wave due to Taiwanese returning from Europe and America where the disease had already spread to on a large scale.

This video is slightly propaganda (at least in the way it's presented) but it's all true and sums the situation of the country and the Covid situation up very simply

Although it is slightly out of date as there have been more days of ZERO cases and many more million masks sent.