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theseadroid
7y ago
To add to that. mainland China banned citizens from traveling to Taiwan as individual tourists 2019 July because of other reasons. So yes Taiwan did not have huge flows of mainland Chinese. https://time.com/5639832/chin
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So do we do this next time any new illness spread? what if it happened to a poor country? Is this going to be coded as an international law? If so why is the law retrospective? Considering your 1) lack of sanitary standards is more prevalen
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Say I speak a foreign language with very important message to an audience that doesn't understand this language at all. Nobody in the audience understood the message after I spoke. Does what I said matter? I would consider the communic
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The same wiki source in Chinese language though gives a completely different picture and with much more information and sources on how the terms is used in the last hundred year in Chinese language. https://zh.wikipedia.org/
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Well is there an official source to decide on this matter? However, culturally I'm pretty sure my answer is what the majority of Chinese think. If you happen to have Chinese friends you can ask them as an informal poll.
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Sick Man of Asia though was mainly referring to the opioid addicted Chinese population at that time.
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Just wanna emphasize that there's historical contest with the words Sick Man of Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia The phrase reminds any Chinese about China's darkest history in 500 years.
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Yup. In mainland China they repurposed car assembly lines to mask production (there's not much car selling anyway). Western countries need to copy at least some of those measures.
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Plz keep in mind that with all those measures employed in China, we don't know exactly which ones are effective and how effective they are. Also S.K. Taiwan, and Singapore has a different set of measures that seems to work. What I want
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Sorry for me spamming this but this is extraordinary times: For people who are curious what living in China feels like now (video uploaded Mar 14th), from a Japanese director living in Nanjing, China: https://www.youtube.com/
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sorry for spamming my own reply, but here's what 21 days after in China looks like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22587840
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>while other countries are not counting them if other conditions where already present. Any source please?
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For people who are curious what living in China feels like now (video uploaded Mar 14th), from a Japanese director living in Nanjing, China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM Things are getting back to normal, wit
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Nah scratch that. At this point it's hard to tell who are the baddies[1]. 1. https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1879190/us-germany-battle-...
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> could do that because it could afford to take the economical hit and because it is an authoritarian state, which means you can get almost everyone to obey, in one way or another. Also, the Chinese Party is what caused this mess to begi
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Life in Nanjing, China as of today filmed by a Japanese director
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Scientifically, yes? First do we have conclusion that people are immune to coronavirus once infected? Isn't the disease too new to know that? Secondly have we done any experiments and have any evidence that this will work in a smaller
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Why and how to make and use homemade masks with references (first comment)
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Humans are not logical animals. There's a lot of criticism on modelling human making logical decisions in economics. In some other fields humans are modelled as fluids or herds, devoid of individual judgement/decision making. Some
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I have a question. Do we test all death? What if many death are not tested for coronavirus hence the death number is not accurate either?
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There's a Canadian Covid 19 case who attended a conference with 25,000 attendees. Let's see how that goes... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-first-communi...
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Let's overcome this virus first? We normally don't do root cause analysis during an outage in IT do we?
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Hey HN, in light of the current situation and the potential ordeal in the coming weeks, may I ask you instead of blaming whoever, let's find some solutions to help people? As a Chinese, I read first hand materials from Chinese social m
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And its proximity is probably the most important factor?
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markets started to know the scale of U.S. government's incompetence in handling Covid 19 now.
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Coronavirus: White House concedes US lacks enough test kits
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Would AWS Elastic Beanstalk fit that <10 services profile?
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limit quantity per customer?
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In your own source it is said unproven with detailed explanation: >If we strip the above-displayed videos of their captions, we can take a look purely at what the videos show. In one case, it looks like a person was the victim of a traff
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I totally agree with you. >china and south korea both explicitly stated that they were transitioning to wartime footing to combat the virus. we need to follow in their footsteps. we need billions of dollars in spending, suspension of nor
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