These are, of course, old. It’s like a societal inoculation, but the digital part is new. Back in 2003, the mask rationing part of the social innovation was simply impossible because, back in the SARS 1.0 days, not everyone in Taiwan had a national IC health card. Only people in the Pescadore Islands – that is to say, Penghu – had it. We were doing limited-scale experiment there. It showed that the IC card has really helped that tiny island to manage SARS 1.0 for obvious reasons.

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