《國際文宣 》 致世界的公開信 — 為何要讓台灣加入世衛 #TWcanhelp
中英文版如下
各位好，
我是Will，一位香港人，亦是最後一年的醫科生。我寫這封信的目的，是向全世界解釋為何世界衛生組織（世衛）需要重組，以及為什麼世衛需要重新考慮讓台灣成為正式成員。
2019年12月，中國湖北省的武漢市發現一種來源不明的肺炎。肺炎不久擴散至鄰近地區。香港、台灣、泰國、新加坡、南韓及日本成為亞洲最先受病毒侵襲的國家。這個來源不明的肺炎後來被稱為COVID-19，而病原體是新型冠狀病毒SARS-CoV-2。
雖然香港和台灣很早就受到病毒侵襲，但兩地在遏止疫情擴散方面非常出色。香港與台灣在2003年SARS抗疫中，分別失去了299和73條寶貴人命。我們知道我們必須從過去經驗裡汲取教訓，避免悲劇重演。應對新型冠狀病毒爆發，香港和台灣都迅速地採取有效的公共衛生措施。台灣的公營醫療系統在查找病人、隔離感染者及追踪病人曾經接觸人士方面更是全球首屈一指；這些工作對於控制傳染病擴散都是不可或缺的。
新型冠狀病毒爆發至今已經四個月，不少國家都受到迅速擴散的病毒所重創。英國、意大利、法國、印度、中國、新西蘭、澳洲及美國等多國都實施封鎖及出入境限制。病毒奪取了好幾萬人的生命，活著的人民亦飽受社交隔離及孤立的煎熬。疫情發生前的世界現已不復存在。
反觀台灣，生活仍然大致正常：人民照常上班和跟他們的朋友家人晚餐。最重要的是，當地的社區傳播病例明顯較其他國家少。這全賴台灣政府反應迅速且有效。
事實上，台灣政府亦不時接觸世衛 ，跟組織分享他們在控制病毒方面的研究成果及經驗。早於2019年12月31日，台灣曾經聯絡世衛查詢及提出新冠病毒能夠人傳人的可能性，但不受理會。直至2020年1月14日，世衛仍宣稱沒有證據顯示病毒可以透過人傳人傳播。
如果當初台灣是世衛成員國，而世衛又認真看待台灣的意見並鼓勵各國立刻為抗疫做好準備的話，各國或許可以像台灣一樣成功遏止疫情擴散，從而挽救幾萬條人命。
17年前，我們經歷了SARS。我們以幾百條人命的犧牲為代價，學到了重要一課。香港已經是世衛成員，香港大學出版的最新研究亦顯示口罩能大大降低病毒傳播風險。這項信息對全世界來說是極為重要的。台灣要是能夠在世衛發聲，他們絕對可以幫助各國走出困境。我呼籲世衛讓台灣加入組織，讓我們制止歷史悲劇的重演，向世界展示我們的團結，站於同一戰線上對抗病毒。台灣和香港能夠、亦會持續為這場抗疫之戰作出貢獻。
最後我想大家知道：這個病毒並沒有針對性。不管你是嬰孩、兒童、青少年、年輕的成年人或是長者，你都同樣承受染病的風險。絕對不要輕視這個病毒，它已經奪去夠多人命了。犧牲的人，一位都嫌太多。我懇請你們留在家中，因為只要你們這樣做，就可以避免更多的人命犧牲。保持希望，讓我們攜手一同戰勝黑暗。
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A public letter to the world: why should WHO reconsider Taiwan’s membership
Hello everyone,
My name is will. I’m from Hong Kong and I’m a final year medical student. And this is an open letter to the whole world on why we need a reformation of the world health organization (WHO) and why the WHO should reconsider the inclusion of Taiwan as its member.
In December 2019, a pneumonia of unknown source was described in Wuhan, Hubei province in China which has since then spread to nearby places with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan being the first few Asian countries hit by the virus. This pneumonia of unknown source was later on known as COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Despite being hit early on by the coronavirus, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been doing an incredible job in containing the spread of the virus. Having the experience of SARS in 2003, with the tragic loss of 299 lives in Hong Kong and 73 lives in Taiwan, We know that we must learn from the history and we cannot let this happen again. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Both Hong Kong and Taiwan promptly established effective public health measures in particular Taiwan has the best public health system in the world in terms of identifying patients, quarantining infected patients and performing contact tracing which are all crucial components in containing infectious disease.
Today, four months after the outbreak of coronavirus, many countries were devastated by the rapid spread of the virus. Countries such as the UK, Italy, France, India, China, Newzealand, Australia and the United States are in lockdown and travel restriction. Hundreds and thousands of people have died because of virus, for those who are still alive are living an incredible difficult and dreadful life with social distancing and isolation. The world we used to live in ceased to exist as of this moment.
But if you take look at Taiwan, they are still almost business as usual, people are still going out to work, to have dinner with friends and family, most importantly the number of community transmission is exceptionally low compared to all the other countries. These are all because of the rapid response and effective measures adopted by the Taiwan Government.
as a matter of fact, the Taiwan government has time and time again proactively approached the WHO to share their research and experience in containing the virus. December 31st 2019, Taiwan contacted WHO to inquire and suggest the possibility of human to human transmission of the coronavirus but was disregarded. And until January 14 2020, the WHO was still claiming that there is no evidence of human to human transmission.
Had Taiwan been a member of WHO, and had WHO taken Taiwan’s opinion more seriously and encouraged countries to promptly prepare for the coronavirus, the rest of the world maybe able to contain the virus like Taiwan and the tens of thousands of lives could have been saved.
Throughout the entire coronavirus outbreak, WHO has time and time again failed us by downplaying the severity of the pandemic, claiming that there was no evidence of human to human transmission, all along reiterated that mask provide no protection to the general public, advising countries to not impose travel restriction and most importantly the poor recommendation of PPE for healthcare workers which resulted in multiple infections to doctors and nurses in Japan who followed their advice initially.
17 years ago, we had SARS and we learned a great lesson at the expense of the tragic loss of hundreds of lives. Hong Kong is already a member of WHO and our latest research published by the University of Hong Kong showed that mask can drastically reduce the risk of viral transmission which is invaluable to the whole world. I have no doubt that Taiwan would be able to help the world if Taiwan is given a voice in the WHO. I urge the WHO to include Taiwan as its members so that . Let’s not let history repeats itself, let’s battle this war together as one world and let’s show the world solidarity. Taiwan and Hong Kong can help and they will continue to help.
And a final message to all, the coronavirus does not discriminate, no matter you are an infant, a child, an adolescent, a young adult or an elderly, we are all equally susceptible. Do not take this lightly, it has claimed enough lives already, one is too many, please stay home and it can save life. Please do not lose hope and We will get through this, together as one.
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