I have been talking about this virus almost since the end of 2019. Yes, that's how early our government warned us about the possibility of it spreading, while China refused to admit that something is going around in Wuhan. Fast forward to January, and Lunar Calendar New Year then zip to March. @halesbells38 has been tired of listening to me give daily updates of the China Wuhan Virus since I haven’t stopped updating her for months.
I guess my worries come from what I saw on the news when SARS was happening here in Taiwan in 2003. There were a lot of slow reactions and even wrong actions taken when it started spreading in Taiwan. Not just people, but also our government, nobody was familiar with how to handle this huge infectious disease. By the way, we were not in WHO, and we are still not in WHO, thanks to China. We had no further information of SARS, the details of it spreading and how to stop it. That totally left us without choices, but had to fix it in our own way. We ended up losing 37 lives because of SARS. I still remember the Chinese officer who represented the Chinese government for a WHO meeting in 2003. His response to the Taiwanese media that raised questions like, “Why can’t the Taiwanese government join the meeting to get help and information for our people?”, was "Who cares about you!" with his despise face.
她昨天在Human Rights Campaign的Time to Thrive Conference的整段演講因為緊張和心情激動,語調都有點不穩、些微發抖,但是這更反應了她的確花了很大的決心做了這個演講。讓我感動的更多是,她講到非常多人在社會偏見/框架下一直suffering(也許可以翻譯成煎熬),社會告訴你你該怎麼生活、該穿什麼衣服、該怎麼做自己,如果做不到,就會被treat like shit。不只因為性別、性向,也有相當多想也想不到的原因(或是根本沒有原因),讓某些人被輕視、被欺凌、甚至被虐待。她自己就是過來人,在設立各項"標準"的Hollywood掙扎、拉扯,即使她盡力保持自己的信念,身體、心靈、甚至人際關係都還是承受著痛苦。