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Buses will be returning to normal operations starting tomorrow, Feb. 22nd, with some adjustments.
Subways are also back in service with limited stops.
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Buses will be returning to normal operations starting tomorrow, Feb. 22nd, with some adjustments.
Subways are also back in service with limited stops.
Unraveling those bags are direction specific, pull it from the correct side and it'll come off easily, pull it from the wrong side and itvwill increase your blood pressure.
If you take a close look, one side has only one thread running along the seam while. the other has two. If the single thread is facing you then start from the right side, if it is facing away from you then start from the left.
Examine the leading thread of where you are going to start, the first loop need to be undone first, once you back the lead out of that first loop then gently pull on it and watch it unravel.
Another technique is to simply cut off the lead from the edge of the bag so that you have stubs on either side of the bag and then begin pulling.
Either way, the key is to start on the correct side.
All public places in Yunnan are now required to use your WeChat account scan a APP QR CODE (the circular kind) for entrance and exit as of this afternoon.
One major problem that I see is the collection and usage of the data. For the virus tracking and containment to be effective, every person's every movement needs to be logged, if the tracking is incomplete then it defeats the purpose. Problems with this can already be seen. First, not everyone has a WeChat account, the elderly and the young comes to mind. Second, it is too easy to bypass the checkpoint as the store clerks lack training and is simply overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. I have witnessed first hand, shoppers walking in without scanning dispite being requested/ordered to do so.
With regards to data collected, how is the data being protected from third party usage and/or non authorized usage within the government. What's to prevent this in-program app from becoming a tool of big brother?
There are too many questions left unasked, let alone answered. When all is said and done, this is one big exercise of the blind leading the blind.
Xi warned officials that efforts to stop virus could hurt economy: sources
finance.yahoo.com/[...]
“Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.”
So here comes the inevitable economic calculus. Even with a full quarantine, you cannot stamp out an outbreak in a month, it would now appear foolish to have even believed shutting down an entire region and implementing a haphazard patchwork of emergency regulations in the rest of the country could have worked.
We are now told to focus our attention and energy on making the economy strong, virus or no virus. No sacrifice is too great in order to achieve that goal.
Go Wuhan #WuhanJiayou
Many years later, when my child asks me why so many of her classmates were born in the same month, I'd have to answer, it all started with a bat....
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Chinese student apologizes after Maryland graduation speech sparks firestorm
Posted by@Geezer, putting aside the politicking of the Chinese government, the oversimplification of the freedoms enjoyed in the US in her speech is very problematic.
What was the point of her analogy? That freedoms blossom in the US while withers in China? Let us not forget that those freedoms were fought for and paid for by the blood of the preceding generations. While she enjoy the labors of those sacrifices, is she ready to make sacrifices of her own? The answer, sadly, is no, as evidence by her insincere non-apology and "commitment" to spread Chinese ideals and culture. Instead of of standing up and defending those freedoms, she cowers at the hint of retribution.
To discover freedom, perhaps you can speak to the minorities that face systematic discrimination everyday, speak to the Muslim communities on how much they enjoyed their freedom, give an opposing view at a MAGA rally to see the freedom of speech at work.
I find nothing at all about her speech or its synthesis to be worth defending other than her rights to make such a speech. But at the same time, I equally defend everyone elses' response to it, CSSA included, those freedom of speech are equally sacred to me.
Chinese student apologizes after Maryland graduation speech sparks firestorm
Posted byGranted, the suppression and control of outside the mainstream narrative is more overt in China but government control, or at least the control by the main parties of the narrative exists in America just the same, just more subtle.
The finger pointing, as you say, is the result of the two party system, the discourse and freedom is but an illusion. Outside attacks on each other, their views are nearly identical on almost all issues. Both parties have talked "tough on China", both panders and caters to the Middle East and Israel, the only difference is a matter of degrees and the facade of the institution in which they support.
"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.'
When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
― Abraham Lincoln, 1855
Chinese student apologizes after Maryland graduation speech sparks firestorm
Posted byIt cuts both ways, how about China as a currency manipulator, China is stealing our jobs, anything Chinese is viewed as suspicious by the Republican party and the American public in general as that was the narrative being pushed. Japanese companies, Korean companies, German companies, even American companies have all recently been involved in massive product recalls that poses a public safety risk and yet I don't see the same fervor as when it was a Chinese made product.
Such is the nature of politics & government and humans. Always pointing fingers and seeing flaws in others when thinking themselves to be perfect and superior.