Name: Anonymous 2020-02-18 17:33
I'm so sad right now.
14 days without eating would not kill mehttps://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#4_April_2020_(Quarantine_tracking)
People who enter Taiwan are subject to a strict quarantine, tracked by their Stalin's Dream devices (portable phones). If the device ever does not respond (such as, out of power), enforcers go after you immediately.
The strict quarantine may be necessary, but the specific method of enforcement is intolerable. I wonder what they would say to a person who has no Stalin's Dream device and refuses to have one.
The tracking of my movements would not matter if I were forbidden to leave the apartment. It would only show I did not leave. But it is also a listening device, and I would protect myself from that one way or another.
What worries me most is how I would get food. I buy things only anonymously. I do not give my name or address and I pay only cash. Under those quarantine rules, I might not be able to buy any food.
14 days without eating would not kill me, but it would be extremely unpleasant — enough to convince me to do as Paul Huang did, and stay away.
For me personally, that is all theoretical. Travel for speaking is not feasible if entering a country requires a 14-day quarantine, regardless of the details of how it is enforced. But the issues of freedom posed by the enforcement affect everyone, not just me.