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WHO Warns Of "Very Tough Time" Ahead As China Eases Zero-Covid Curbs
WHO Warns Of “Very Tough Time” Ahead As China Eases Zero-Covid Curbs
A week after China began dismantling its tough ‘zero-COVID’ controls, the World Health Organization warned of “very tough” times ahead and state media reported some seriously ill patients at hospitals…
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Protests are usually thought of as big, noisy, sometimes raucous affairs, where agitated participants clamor for change with catchy chants and splashy banners. But silence can be an equally effective tool for sparking change.
In an authoritarian state with mass censorship, simple words and images can become crimes. Owning silence under such circumstances creates power, says Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian specializing in modern Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine. When a protester joins a crowd and says nothing, they deny the state the tools to suppress. A silent citizen’s words cannot be taken away or used against them.
In recent years, protesters worldwide have confronted their governments with blank slates. Earlier this year, Russians who opposed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were roughly removed from the streets after holding up blank pieces of paper in response to a law that banned uttering or publishing the word “war” in reference to the military campaign.
In Hong Kong in 2020, citizens stunned by the arrival of a new security law lodged their fury by holding up fresh sheets of printer paper. Authorities have arrested nearly 200 people under the law; one man was sentenced to nine years in jail for carrying a flag bearing the banned slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.”
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Deutsche Heuchelei: Politik und Medien fordern von China Aufhebung der Corona-Maßnahmen
Deutschland kritisiert China für seine Corona-Politik. Ausgerechnet Deutschland! Wie verlogen kann Politik, wie vergesslich müssen deutsche Medien angesichts ihrer eigenen Verfehlungen sein, um sich jetzt zum Richter aufzuschwingen. Deutschland sollte zu China schweigen, aus vielen Gründen.
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Kann sich noch jemand an den “Wellenbrecher-Lockdown” erinnern? Er sollte zwei Wochen…
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Removing "Misleading" China Leader's Statement Regarding Five Years Of The "Zero-Covid" Policy
Removing "Misleading" China Leader's Statement Regarding Five Years Of The "Zero-Covid" Policy #China #Covid19 #zeroCovid
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WHO chief says China's zero-Covid strategy is 'unsustainable'
WHO chief says China’s zero-Covid strategy is ‘unsustainable’
WHO chief says China’s zero-Covid strategy is ‘unsustainable’
China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.
China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told…
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Once a poster child for the success of zero-Covid, Taiwan is now dealing with an “Omicron tsunami”. In response – and in stark contrast to regional neighbours – health authorities have decided zero-Covid is no match for the new variant and have flipped the switch to “living with the virus”.
“It is the right decision, and it’s also the decision we had to make,” says Dr Chen Chien-jen, Taiwan’s former vice-president and professor of epidemiology.
Taiwan closed itself off in early 2020, and employed a regime of stringent contact tracing, social restrictions and personal hygiene measures which it kept even as vaccines and antivirals were developed. It defeated an outbreak of the Alpha strain and another of Delta in 2021. But after the highly virulent Omicron began affecting countries in November and December, Chen says he and other scholars advised the government to start shifting towards living with the virus.
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It’s called the “new Taiwanese model”: an acknowledgment that they can’t stop the spread of Omicron, but that they can try – to use an early pandemic-era phrase – to flatten the curve. … [Taiwan’s central epidemic command center] urged people to maintain mask-wearing, work from home if they could, reduce gatherings, get vaccinated and take a rapid test if they felt symptoms. It’s also trusting people to self-report, and isolate or quarantine at home.
Cases are rising, but deaths are low.
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China's zero-COVID U-turn means rate at which virus is surging will be shrouded in secrecy
China’s zero-COVID U-turn means rate at which virus is surging will be shrouded in secrecy
The fact that China’s authorities will no longer report asymptomatic cases sounds technical but it’s really significant.
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#yu☆gi☆oh!-#yu-gi-oh!#yugioh#yugioh season 0#yugioh season zero#yugi mutou#yami yugi#seto kaiba#jounouchi katsuya#miho nosaka#hiroto honda#anzu mazaki#90s anime#classic anime#animedia magazine#season zero is fascinating to me#i've been watching random episodes of yugioh duel monsters on retrocrush because i'm sick at home with covid#and I never really watched it as a kid so it's been a relatively new experience#I mean I knew all the memes mostly in relation to the 4 kids dub#but my boyfriend started telling me about season zero and I'm just like 'wait what?'#so i've started season zero and it's a fascinating trip#love green-haired Kaiba
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happy 2nd birthday to my shitty unpopular tumblr blog. let this be our forever <3
#ah. i remember being but a babe. terrified of turning 18. covid insaned. zero friends.#no hoes.#bald
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a little something for whoever else is still wearing a mask out there!!! please sound off in the tags/replies/reblogs/etc i need to know i am not alone!!! being covid conscious in 2023 is Exhausting but anything that might make the pharmacist giving you your vaccine feel just a little embarrassed for having their whole face out in a healthcare setting is a win in my opinion. and you will also be supporting a disabled artist (me)!!!
#got my shots the other day and can u guess how many other masks i saw in the publix pharmacy??#it was a BIG OL GOOSE EGG GANG#a FAT ZERO! HELLO!!!!#anyways i hope n pray this reaches the right audience im trying to get the heck out of florida in a few months n i need Money#long distance moves are. so expensive bro#art#covid isn't over#covid conscious#disability#wear a mask
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