I think by the latter part of January our CECC was well established. The health minister was in charge of giving briefings on a daily basis, explaining to citizens the real situation about what was going on and the new regulations and mechanisms that were in place. I think that helped people a lot. They knew how to get PPE at the convenience store.
By using big data, I think the government can control and limit the number of confirmed cases and make sure people are well placed for quarantine. In suspicious cases as well, people know how to behave in terms of self-quarantining or self-isolating. I think it's a kind of teamwork. People have a sense that it's a crisis. They know how to do things for the public good.
There is a debate in society about using modern technology. Particularly in a democracy like Taiwan, people worry about losing their privacy. How to balance this is extremely important for the democratic institutions. In this area, I think our Parliament plays a very important role, checking the regulations on a daily basis, checking government mechanisms or new regulations, to make sure that people's privacy is secure.
In a civil society, we want the guarantee that we can handle the pandemic properly but that we won't lose, in the meantime, the most precious principles in a democratic society—our privacy and our civil rights.