2020 Sinica Open House Activity

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. To prevent the transmission of COVID-19, the Taiwan government stipulated a policy—people having a high risk of being infected with COVID-19 should be quarantined at designated places. Until now, several hundreds of people, however, were fined for leaving their designated places. We launched a study to investigate the behavior that people violate the rule of staying at designated places. Furthermore, we built a statistical model to explain the desire to leave designated places during quarantine with various facets of psychological, governmental, and social contact variables. Besides, the pandemic underscores the importance of effective communication and compliance. In recent years, social networking sites have become communication channels between the government and the people. To understand how people in Taiwan interact with the government during the COVID-19 crisis, we asked participants to provide their personal Facebook data. Based on the data, we investigated how participants engaged in the posts of Taiwan CDC's Facebook fan page.