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Residents on Taiwan’s Orchid Island are used to solitude. The island lies a jet-prop flight or wavy ferry ride away from Taiwan’s main island, and residents are mostly Tao, an Indigenous Austronesian group that was here thousands of years before the Chinese arrived.  But Orchid’s azure and emerald shores draw snorkelers, and the community has seen a dramatic surge in domestic tourism during the pandemic. Suddenly, the remote island was the closest thing Taiwanese tourists coul...