Over the Spring Break, I walked to the Tainan Airport. It's about a 2 hour walk one way.
The Tainan Airport is a small regional airport that has only local connections, here is the arrival board on a Sunday afternoon only 4 flights over an 6 hour period.
The airport also is the home of the Taiwanese Air Force, it easy to tell when you are not in the commercial area.
China has over 2000 missiles pointed at Taiwan, probably many of them are directed at the Tainan Airport.
At the airport they had some interesting posters. Here is one of two for missing children.
They had many more posters of missing old people. Taiwan has a longer life expectancy than the U.S., the older people get the more they go missing.
There is a very good Taiwanese book by Wang Wen-Hsing translated into English called "A Family Catastrophe" about a son searching for his missing father.
Posters of missing old people? Does that mean that the old people have Alzheimer's and wander off, or are there other reasons they are missing? I have never seen any posters like that here in the US. Maybe that would be a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI think in general, the missing old people are Alzheimer's or dementia victims. But, as you would expect in a island of 23,000,000+ people, it takes all kinds.
ReplyDeleteThere are homeless in Taiwan, like everywhere. From their behavior, anyone can tell they are "mentally challenged", only government social services can help then and even then they can't help those who don't want help. It's a conundrum.