section_path: Controversies/COVID-19 pandemic
section_name: COVID-19 pandemic
paragraph_text: COVID-19 pandemic
  
  On January 27, 2020, during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most countries prioritized domestic mask supplies and Taiwan imposed a mask export ban from 24 January to 23 February (later extending to June), Hsu and her then-husband, Wang Xiaofei, donated 10,000 masks purchased from Japan to Wuhan, sparking criticism from internet users in both Japan and Taiwan. Three days later, on January 30, Wang announced that an additional 10,000 masks, originally intended for donation to mainland China, would instead be donated to Taiwan due to Taiwan's mask export ban, sparking criticism from internet users in China.
  
  In June 2021, one week after she disclosed that she was divorcing from Wang, Hsu posted an Instagram story stating, “My Weibo account has been blocked, and my IG has been suspended! I just want to say: We are being massacred! Tsai! Massacring us,” followed by “Isn't this a massacre?” She later added, “Um… Weibo and IG are actually fine… I just don't know how to use them… But I stand by what I said!” Through her agent, Hsu clarified that she was wondering, “When will all 23 million people in Taiwan finally have access to vaccines? We're not guinea pigs! Our lives matter too!” Hsu's comments, echoing Wang's posts on Weibo shortly before her announcement of an impending divorce and followed by her friend Pace Wu's public appeal for imported COVID-19 vaccines, were interpreted as blaming Taiwan's vaccination shortage on the Tsai Ing-wen administration, which at the time refused to import vaccines produced in mainland China and accused Beijing of sabotaging its efforts to procure vaccines from international manufacturers.
  
  On January 27, 2020, during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most countries prioritized domestic mask supplies and Taiwan imposed a mask export ban from 24 January to 23 February (later extending to June), Hsu and her then-husband, Wang Xiaofei, donated 10,000 masks purchased from Japan to Wuhan, sparking criticism from internet users in both Japan and Taiwan. Three days later, on January 30, Wang announced that an additional 10,000 masks, originally intended for donation to mainland China, would instead be donated to Taiwan due to Taiwan's mask export ban, sparking criticism from internet users in China.
  
  In June 2021, one week after she disclosed that she was divorcing from Wang, Hsu posted an Instagram story stating, “My Weibo account has been blocked, and my IG has been suspended! I just want to say: We are being massacred! Tsai! Massacring us,” followed by “Isn't this a massacre?” She later added, “Um… Weibo and IG are actually fine… I just don't know how to use them… But I stand by what I said!” Through her agent, Hsu clarified that she was wondering, “When will all 23 million people in Taiwan finally have access to vaccines? We're not guinea pigs! Our lives matter too!” Hsu's comments, echoing Wang's posts on Weibo shortly before her announcement of an impending divorce and followed by her friend Pace Wu's public appeal for imported COVID-19 vaccines, were interpreted as blaming Taiwan's vaccination shortage on the Tsai Ing-wen administration, which at the time refused to import vaccines produced in mainland China and accused Beijing of sabotaging its efforts to procure vaccines from international manufacturers.