It’s safe to say that most governments are not staffed by officials who share much in common with Tang, a trans woman, open-source software hacker, startup entrepreneur, and the youngest (at 35, in 2016) person ever to be appointed a cabinet member in Taiwan. She is simultaneously whimsical and serious, a butterfly who doesn’t shy away from heavy lifting.
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It’s like her habit of closing presentations by quoting from the songwriter Leonard Cohen (“There’s a crack in everything, and that’s how the light gets in”). One of the fun things about Tang is that no one who knows her is at all surprised when Daoist philosophy pops up in a discussion of governmental Covid-19 containment strategies. “All I did was to hollow out the clay to make a pot,” Tang says. By February, with dozens of deaths being reported in Wuhan every day, Taiwan was on high alert. But as soon as the first reports of trouble in Wuhan began trickling out on social media in late December, Taiwan had started organizing one of the world’s most successful mobilizations against Covid-19. Out-of-stock stores turned red.Īt the time, the World Health Organization was still a month away from declaring a global pandemic. Convenience stores stocking masks showed up in green. In the space of a single morning, he put together a website using Google Maps to coordinate the crowdsourced info pouring in from the messaging app. Friends and family were swamping LINE, Taiwan’s most popular messaging app, with up-to-the-minute reports saying which local convenience stores still had masks in stock-or were completely out. Howard Wu, a 35-year-old software engineer, watched as Covid-19-induced stress levels rose in his social media feeds. In early February, Taiwan had a mask supply problem.
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