國民黨挺醫護腳步不停歇 江主席台中致送醫療物資助防疫
中國國民黨挺醫護腳步不停歇！國民黨主席江啟臣今(19)日上午至台中市致贈防疫物資予大台中診所協會及台中市診所協會，並感謝第一線防疫人員辛勞。江主席表示，國民黨一定會當防疫醫護人員的後盾，今天到二家醫療單位致贈FFP2口罩及防護面罩，數量不見得很多，但若未來還有需求，國民黨一定持續努力相助，大家團結防疫，才能讓疫情盡快結束。
對於台中市長盧秀燕宣布全市鄰長列入公費疫苗接種對象，卻被中央打槍，江主席在接受媒體訪問時表示，就是因為疫苗不夠，才產生排擠或爭先恐後的現象，指揮中心雖然列出不同類別的施打順序，但各地狀況不一，縣市長也是地方防疫指揮官，應該有務實考量的權限，可以針對地方防疫需求考量。
江主席說明，鄰長也需要做致送防疫通知等工作，形同進行前線防疫服務，也是相當程度暴露在風險中，中央疫情指揮中心應讓地方防疫指揮官依務實考量做判斷，最重要的是在疫苗有限的情況下，保護這些協助防疫工作的人。現在應該團結一心防疫，而不是中央下公文反對地方作為，這不是中央應該扮演的角色。
針對政府的防疫與紓困作為，江主席火力全開，痛批防疫工作從去年到現在，尤其五月中疫情爆發後，讓人民看到政府的防疫工作疏漏，甚至國際媒體也公開批評，指政府並沒有所謂的超前部署，包括疫苗、藥物、防疫資源等，民眾都沒感受到有超前部署。
此外，政府在態度上顯得自大、自滿，不敢「逆時中」的心態，導致防疫過程中錯失很多良機，紓困方面更不用談，昨天立院通過紓困4.0預算，但表決過程中，「民主進步黨真的不進步」，而是「民意全部擋」，國民黨要求應調查3＋11的真相、普發現金、增加疫苗採購量，都被民進黨否決，令人懷疑民進黨是否真心想要防疫？
江主席憤慨指出，518條台灣民眾的生命不是數字，政府最讓人看不下去的就是「把人命當數字，把防疫當政治」，後果卻是人民用生命來承擔，如果蔡總統還在乎人民生命，就請拋開意識形態與政治計算，盡快買到疫苗！
江主席強調，目前台灣獲得的疫苗「捐的比買的還多」，蔡總統「不覺得羞恥嗎」？紓困預算從二千一百億加到八千四百億，可以買多少疫苗？若政府去年有超前部署，沒有民進黨內派系紛擾，會搞到今天還要請郭董、台積電出面買疫苗嗎？此外，民間要買疫苗，中央政府先前一再阻擋，昨天還說一路綠燈，「我們看到卻是一路紅燈，你是色盲嗎」？政府若有開大門，善意對待民間力量，相信台灣還是防疫模範，不會像現在，上半場還是「Taiwan Can Help」，下半場成「Taiwan Needs Help」，請蔡政府救救百姓，盡快買到疫苗才是重點。
對於勞工紓困貸款人數過多衍生爭議，江主席表示，政院把去年紓困方案複製貼上，但這波疫情三級警戒跟去年大不相同，餐廳不能內用、學校停課，這些去年都沒有的情況，對各行各業都衝擊很大，因此國民黨第一時間主張普發現金，但中央政府沒採納，有超過五成民眾認為這次紓困無感，美國、日韓、新加坡等其他國家都經歷過類似台灣的疫情經驗，這些國家有的發了不只一波的現金，人民現在需要救命錢，民進黨的心態若仍是不懂謙卑只會反對，就回去當反對黨好了！
KMT Stands with Indefatigable Medical Personnel
Chairman Chiang Donates Taichung Medical Supplies to Fight COVID
The Kuomintang (KMT) stands with our indefatigable medical personnel! This (June 19th) morning, KMT Chairman Johnny Chiang arrived in Taichung City to donate medical supplies to the Greater Taichung Medical Clinics Association and the Taichung Medical Clinics Association in order to help fight the COVID pandemic. He also expressed his gratitude for the work the frontline disease prevention staff are putting in. He stated that the KMT will unequivocally support the medical personnel fighting the pandemic. Although the amount of FFP2 masks and face shields donated to the two medical associations that morning was not a lot, if necessary in the future, the KMT will unequivocally continue to work hard to help out. Only by uniting to fight the pandemic can everyone quickly overcome it.
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen recently declared that all Taichung City neighborhood chiefs would be vaccinated at public expense, drawing criticism from the central government. Chairman Chiang responded to this when accepting questions from the media, stating that this phenomenon of rushing to be first in line is due entirely to insufficient vaccines. Although the command center had produced a list with a different order of vaccine priority, the conditions of each area are different; county or city mayors are also local pandemic prevention commanders. They should have pragmatic considerations within their remit; they can focus on local pandemic prevention requirements and considerations.
Chairman Chiang further explained that neighborhood chiefs also need to deliver pandemic prevention notices and do other related work. This is tantamount to serving on the front lines of pandemic prevention; they are exposed to a considerable degree of risk. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) should allow local pandemic prevention commanders make judgements according to pragmatic considerations. The most important thing under this situation of limited vaccines is to protect these people who provide assist in the work of pandemic prevention. We should be uniting as one right now in order to fight the pandemic instead of the CECC producing documents to oppose local actions; this is not the role of the CECC.
When asked about the government’s pandemic prevention and financial relief efforts, Chairman Chiang opened fire, severely criticizing all pandemic prevention work from last year up until now. Mid-May’s outbreak of pandemic caused the people to see the government’s negligence in pandemic prevention work. This negligence was so bad that the international media published criticism as well, pointing out that the government did not have any so called proactive deployment at all. This deficiency included a lack of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, pandemic prevention resources, and others. The people did not feel any sort of proactive deployment.
Worse, the government’s attitude seems arrogant and smug; it’s afraid to “oppose Chen Shih-chung,” leading to many missed opportunities during the course of pandemic prevention. The financial relief aspect has been even worse; the Legislative Yuan passed the financial relief 4.0 budget, but during the process of voting, the “Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) truly showed that it fails to progress,” instead opting to “completely resist the will of the people.” The KMT requests for investigation of 3+11’s actual facts, general issuance of cash, and increase of vaccine procurement quantity were all vetoed by the DPP. Does the DPP sincerely want to contain this pandemic?
Chairman Chiang mournfully pointed out that the 518 Taiwanese lives lost from COVID19 are not mere statistics. The most disgraceful thing the government has done is “seeing lives as statistics and playing politics with the pandemic.” The people consequently take this burden up with their lives. If President Tsai still cares about the lives of the people, she should abandon ideology and political calculation, and procure vaccines as soon as possible!
Chairman Chiang emphasized that the vaccines that Taiwan has acquired thus far were “mostly donated, not purchased.” Does President “not feel ashamed?” The financial relief budget increased from 210 billion NTD to 840 billion NTD; how much vaccine would this have bought? If the government had proactively deployed resources last year, if the DPP hadn’t engaged in internal faction struggles, would the situation have disintegrated so badly that Foxconn founder Terry Gou and TSMC came forward to purchase vaccines? Furthermore, when private groups wanted to purchase vaccines, the central government repeatedly blocked them. The central government even went as far yesterday as to say they gave the green light the entire time. “What we actually saw the entire time were red lights; is the government colorblind?” Chairman Chiang added that if the government had opened the door to private vaccine procurement and treated the strength of private groups with benevolence, Taiwan would still be a paragon of pandemic prevention and wouldn’t be the way it is now. In the first half, it was still “Taiwan Can Help;” now, in the second half, it has become “Taiwan Needs Help.” We ask the Tsai administration to save the people; successfully purchasing vaccines as quickly as possible is the only important point.
Finally, regarding the controversy over an excessive amount of people applying for COVID relief loans from the Ministry of Labor, Chairman Chiang stated that the Executive Yuan simply reproduced and stuck with last year’s financial relief plan, but this wave of level three pandemic is entirely different from last year. Restaurants cannot provide dine-in service and schools have stopped holding classes. These circumstances, which did not occur at all last year, have impacted all walks of lives greatly. The KMT therefore immediately advocated for general issuance of cash, but the central government rejected this plan. Over 50% of the people believe the current financial relief to be ineffective. The US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and other countries all experienced similar pandemic situations as the one Taiwan is currently experiencing; some of these countries doled out more than one round of cash. The people need life-saving cash immediately; if the DPP’s mentality remains incapable of understanding humility and remains only capable of opposition, then the DPP should go back to being an opposition party!
(This is an abridged version of an official KMT Chinese language press release）
