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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Police Folklore That Helped Kill Tyre Nichols</strong> - A 1992 study claims that officers who show weakness are more likely to be killed. Law-enforcement culture has never recovered. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-police-folklore-that-helped-kill-tyre-nichols">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History</strong> - The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/ron-desantis-battles-the-african-american-ap-course-and-history">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pope Francis Speaks Out on Homosexuality—and Further Angers Traditionalists</strong> - Since the death of Benedict XVI, it’s been open season at the Vatican. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pope-francis-speaks-out-on-homosexuality-and-further-angers-traditionalists">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Israel’s Anti-Democratic Practices Against Palestinians Are Infecting Its Political System</strong> - Rising violence is drawing new attention to the alliance that Benjamin Netanyahu struck with the far right to return to power. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/deaths-in-jenin-and-east-jerusalem-draw-new-attention-to-netanyahu">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Strikes and Protests in France Look to the Future and the Past</strong> - Emmanuel Macron challenges the welfare state, and Charles de Gaulle makes a surprise return. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-strikes-and-protests-in-france-look-to-the-future-and-the-past">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Vintage Contemporaries is a warm-hearted novel that walks in the footsteps of Laurie Colwin</strong> -
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Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois | HarperCollins
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In his debut novel, Dan Kois vividly conjures the lost New York of 1991.
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Early on in <a href="https://go.skimresources.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fp%2Fbooks%2Fvintage-contemporaries-dan-kois%2F18727238%3Fean%3D9780063162419&xcust=Vox013023"><em>Vintage Contemporaries</em></a>, an exceptionally warm-hearted new novel by Slate columnist Dan Kois, two women who are both named Emily start to become friends.
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“If we were characters in a story,” says one of the Emilys, “it would be pretty confusing that we were both named Emily.”
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The other Emily, our point-of-view character, immediately volunteers to be Emmy. The first Emily renames her Em instead.
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In this tiny, quirky moment, Kois packs enormous amounts of information. There’s Em’s self-effacement, her eagerness to please, her willingness to reshape her identity around whatever seems stronger than she is. There’s Emily’s cool assertiveness, her sense of self, her willingness to take it as a matter of course that whichever Emily has to pick up a nickname, it’s certainly not going to be <em>her</em>. The breezy metafictional wink of <em>if we were characters in a story</em> establishes that this is a world of people who read, and who are going to think about how their lives resemble the lives they read about.
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Most importantly, the fact that the Emilys share a name points to the emotional core of this novel. Theirs is one of those friendships so deep and so intense that the lines between identities become porous, and one self bleeds into another. There are moments in <em>Vintage Contemporaries</em> where, despite their opposed personalities, you’re not exactly sure which Emily you’re reading about at any given moment.
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The two Emilys meet in the much-mythologized East Village of the early 1990s: the era of scrappy community squats in abandoned buildings, of the Act Up campaign, of starving artists who could still afford Manhattan rent. They’re both just out of college. Em has come to New York to become a writer and finds herself working at a literary agency, struggling to get her head around the realities of publishing. Em is developing a site-specific production of <em>Medea</em> on the Brooklyn Bridge, which she refers to,<em> fait accompli</em>, as her breakout piece.
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In a breezy 316 pages, Kois follows the Emilys back and forth across time, from their early ’90s meet-cute through the slow dissolution of their friendship to their reunion as fully-fledged grownups in 2005. Lurking in the 14 years between the two sections is a gentle melancholy: for the relationships that fell apart with time, for the dreams that were never achieved, for the New York that was lost as those East Village rents skyrocketed.
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<em>Vintage Contemporaries</em> does not linger in its sadness. Part of the argument of this novel is that books about happiness are as worth celebrating as books about tragically beautiful people having tragically unhappy sex and all the other trendy topics du jour, and so while it mourns its lost city, it never wallows in grief. Instead, with uncool Em as our protagonist, it mounts a convincing case for such uncool causes as good taste over fashionable taste, editing as creative craft work, and smart novels where everything matters only as much as it ever matters in life.
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In many ways, <em>Vintage Contemporaries</em> is a love letter to the ethos of Laurie Colwin, a writer of what she used to call “domestic sensualism:” books about basically decent people trying their best at life, often failing, and eating beautifully described food in the process. Colwin died in 1992, but she and her smart and elegant domestic novels (plus <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22791733/holiday-book-recommendations-2021-roundup">cultishly beloved food memoirs</a>) are enjoying <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/laurie-colwins-recipe-for-being-yourself-in-the-kitchen">a belated renaissance</a>, having been reissued in trendy new editions in 2021. <em>Vintage Contemporaries</em> makes it clear that the Colwinessaince is long overdue, and that it aspires to follow in her very human-scaled footsteps. In this, it mostly succeeds.
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That’s not to say there aren’t clumsy moments. A plotline about the office sexual politics of 2005 comes off as slightly clunky, an attempt to play with the gap between Em’s 2005 perspective and the reader’s presumed 2023 mores that works better in theory than in execution.
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Much stronger is the story of Em’s great creative project, which turns out to be not writing her own book but helping someone else make hers better. As an agent’s assistant in 1991, Em stumbles across a Colwin-like writer of small, lovely, cheerful novels who has been consigned to the euphemistic marketing category of <em>women’s fiction</em> and there ignored. She’s at first bewildered by the books, considering them middlebrow and domestic and easy to ignore, but she finds herself compelled by them almost in spite of herself.
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In 2005, Em finds her writer friend experiencing an unexpected renaissance, having become the pet project of a highly fashionable literary young man. Everyone, it seems, now sees what Em had to work to see in 1991: that cheerful books about women’s domestic lives are worthy of sustained aesthetic attention. But it takes Em’s editorial eye to make those books as good as they can possibly be.
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<em>Vintage Contemporaries</em> is, of course, biased when it comes to this argument. This is a lovely and mostly cheerful novel about women and their domestic and professional struggles: it is the kind of book its characters champion. In its sweetness and the delicacy of its approach, its shining array of well-chosen telling details, it more than makes its case.
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<li><strong>What can the world learn from China’s “zero-Covid” lockdown?</strong> -
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Volunteers deliver food supplies to residents at a gated community after Shanghai imposed a citywide lockdown to halt the spread of Covid-19 epidemic on April 8, 2022 in Shanghai, China. | Chen Chen/VCG via Getty Images
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Short-term lockdowns could be key to ending pandemics early.
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For the first time in three years, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-13/families-lovers-reunite-as-china-reopens?cmpid=BBD011323_CN&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230113&utm_campaign=china">millions</a> traveled within China earlier this month to reunite with loved ones for the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/2/8/10937800/chinese-new-year-2019">country’s most important holiday</a>, the Lunar New Year. Unfortunately, these celebrations coincided with — and are sure to exacerbate — a Covid-19 outbreak currently spreading throughout the country.
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This spike comes on the heels of China’s National Health Commission <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-rigid-zero-covid-19-policy-starts-thaw-2022-12-07/">ending many of its “zero-Covid” policies</a><strong> </strong>in December. These public health regulations had heavily restricted travel within and to the country, quarantined infected individuals in government-run facilities, and enforced city-wide lockdowns that required <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-china-beijing-xi-jinping-shanghai-631ee1b6a906bfc9ef7475ed6ed64406">millions</a> to stay indoors for months at a time. While the US threw the term “lockdown” around <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975663437/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed">in the early stages of the pandemic</a>, China was one of the few countries that actually did lock down its population.
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These initiatives did <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases">prevent repeated surges</a> in Covid-19 cases. But it also led to inadequate responses to other <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/06/china-treatment-non-covid-illnesses-denied">health crises</a> and emergencies — including a November 2022 <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-fires-6a1b6902e6ccf87e064f1232045a2848">building fire</a> in the Xinjiang region where virus-related blockades prevented an effective emergency response. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/11/27/23480144/urumqi-xinjiang-apartment-fire-china-zero-covid-uyghur-xi-jinping-protest">Protests</a> over the last few months of 2022 bubbled across major cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Urumqi, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63771109?at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_link_id=5CC89164-6E50-11ED-96C5-776596E8478F&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_format=video&at_campaign=Social_Flow">calling for an end</a> to lockdowns, censorship, and in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/do-covid-protests-in-china-pose-a-threat-to-xi-jinping">some cases</a>, even Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s presidency.
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Beijing’s decision to end zero-Covid policies may have saved the nation from further <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/11/27/23480144/urumqi-xinjiang-apartment-fire-china-zero-covid-uyghur-xi-jinping-protest">social chaos</a>. But how it eased up resulted in a public health crisis, with an <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&hideControls=true&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~CHN">estimated 2.02 million government-confirmed Covid-19 cases</a><strong> </strong>(though that’s <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/04/who-official-faults-china-undercounting-covid-deaths/">likely an undercount</a>) as of January 29, compared to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&hideControls=true&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~CHN&Metric=Confirmed+cases">119,836 cumulative cases</a> a year ago.
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Although a variety of zero-Covid strategies have been tried in different countries since the start of the pandemic, they have varied in intensity, length, goals, and outcomes. In some nations, lockdowns were used intermittently to control outbreaks and to give public health leaders time to develop and distribute vaccinations. China’s lockdowns were used as a primary prevention measure. Partially, China’s current outbreak stems from the country’s all-or-nothing mentality, experts told Vox. The country eased lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mass testing, all at once — and the virus came rushing in.
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Lockdowns aren’t a popular public health strategy when strung out for long periods of time. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be a useful option in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/23001426/pandemic-proof">pandemic playbook</a>. Lockdowns cannot contain a disease like Covid-19 indefinitely — especially more contagious variants — but they can mitigate the spread and give public health leaders time to prepare for other aspects of their pandemic response, such as vaccinations. The public health lessons learned from the end of China’s zero-Covid era might be some of the most important in preparing for future pandemics and learning how to live with diseases.
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“At the beginning [of a pandemic], if there’s no treatment, no vaccine, and we have very limited knowledge about this new phenomena, a lockdown is more acceptable,” said Jennifer Bouey, chair of the global health department at Georgetown University. “Once there are vaccines, once there’s treatment, once we understand the nature of the pathogen, then they should be switched to a combination of different things.”
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Lockdowns worked during SARS. China hoped they would work again.
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In January 2020, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-wuhan-china-coronavirus-pandemic-e6147ec0ff88affb99c811149424239d">only two days before</a> the Lunar New Year, China <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandre-Figueiredo-3/publication/340482645_Impact_of_lockdown_on_COVID-19_incidence_and_mortality_in_China_an_interrupted_time_series_study/links/5e90c107299bf130798f9b4d/Impact-of-lockdown-on-COVID-19-incidence-and-mortality-in-China-an-interrupted-time-series-study.pdf%20%20https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.11.20022236v1.full-text">banned travel to and from</a> the 11 million-person city of Wuhan because of the newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 virus, soon known as Covid-19. In March, as the threat of the virus grew, other countries closed their borders, with the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html">declaring Covid-19 a pandemic</a>.
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Many countries, including China, adopted true lockdowns as a means to stamp out the Covid-19 virus. These measures quarantined infected and exposed individuals, and locked down entire buildings, cities, and regions.
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China had reason to believe this strategy would work again, given that during the outbreak of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/sars/index.html">SARS</a> — now called the SARS-CoV-1 virus —<strong> </strong>in the early 2000s, the nation used a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sars-lockdown-in-beijing/">citywide lockdown</a> of Beijing in 2003 to contain the disease. “People didn’t go out for six weeks, school was canceled, the streets were empty, and the epidemic ended,” said Elanah Uretsky, chair of international and global studies at Brandeis University, of China’s SARS response. “It ended because of those lockdowns and massive quarantine policies. And we learned to believe in them.”
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In the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, little was known about how the virus spread, so public health guidance changed constantly. The application and length of lockdowns varied by country. In France, there were <a href="https://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200317-dos-don-ts-french-under-lockdown-from-walking-dog-to-helping-needy-coronavirus">clear guidelines</a> that allowed residents to travel outdoors for activities such as walking a pet. In contrast, in Wuhan, only one member of a household was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/chinas-coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-brutal-but-effective">permitted outside</a> every two days to buy necessary resources. New Zealand, an island country with a zero-Covid approach, prevented Covid cases and deaths early in the pandemic by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-ban/new-zealand-shuts-border-to-all-foreigners-to-curb-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2160KX">closing its borders</a>.
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However, Covid-19 proved to be more “elusive” than SARS, said Uretsky. Covid can present <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8930171/">asymptomatically</a> — unlike SARS — and therefore it can evade some contact tracing protocols. While it isn’t as deadly as SARS, Covid is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333991/#:~:text=The%20new%20coronavirus%20SARS%2DCoV,has%20passed%20500%20000%20deaths.">more transmissible</a>, meaning that one person infects multiple people at a higher rate.
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Meanwhile, it was difficult for countries with large populations and land masses, such as the US and China, to have the type of nationally coordinated response seen in smaller<strong> </strong>island nations like Singapore and New Zealand. Given its size and politics, the US was unable to nationally coordinate the country’s Covid response and instead relied on individual regions or states to dictate public health measures.
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Instead of zero-Covid, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22180261/covid-19-coronavirus-social-distancing-lockdowns-flatten-the-curve">US opted for a strategy</a> of “flattening the curve,” which entailed decelerating the rate of Covid-19 infection to ease the burden on hospitals. “I think China’s massive error, considering that their population is enormous, was not doing what many countries did, or strived to do, which was ‘flatten the curve,’” said Maureen Miller, an epidemiologist with the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
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In mid-2021, even nations that had maintained low case numbers and death rates through lockdowns adjusted their policies, and instead focused on vaccination campaigns and ramping up contact tracing efforts. Wealthy nations with access to vaccines began immunizing their populations in December 2020, and by the end of August 2021, over 2 billion people were fully vaccinated. Over the last year and a half, many former zero-Covid countries prioritized administering booster vaccines and slowly phased out contact tracing protocols.
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Medical workers and Covid-19 patients are seen at the mainland-aided San Tin community isolation facility on March 14, 2022 in Hong Kong, China.
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Meanwhile, in China, the nation’s zero-Covid policies dragged on for two years. The nation was able to keep cases low, relative to its population, until <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/china">March 2022</a>. At that time, the omicron variant of the virus swept through the country, leading to a lockdown in the 25 million-person city of Shanghai for <a href="https://www.vox.com/23033466/shanghai-covid-zero-lockdown-interview">two months</a>. This extended lockdown sparked anger among residents and would add fuel to the growing anti-government sentiments that manifested via protests later that year.
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Why China’s post-zero-Covid era is going so poorly
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After over <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63310524">150 partial and full<strong> </strong>city-wide lockdowns</a><strong> </strong>and months-long <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2022/11/30/timeline-key-dates-in-chinas-blank-placard-zero-covid-protests/">protests</a>,<strong> </strong>China released new Covid-19 guidelines in <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/these-are-the-20-measures-guiding-china-s-covid-easing-efforts?sref=qYiz2hd0">early November</a> and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/these-are-the-10-new-covid-rules-china-will-follow-on-path-to-reopening#xj4y7vzkg">early December</a> that softened or<strong> </strong>reversed earlier zero-Covid practices. In November, the guidelines cut down isolation time, removed mass testing sites, and increased resources to health care facilities. In December, health codes (proving lack of Covid exposure or a negative test result) to enter most public spaces were no longer required and infected individuals with mild or no symptoms could quarantine at home rather than at government-run facilities.
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However, China lifted these policies not because it was prepared to do so, but because of political pressure from the nationwide <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/11/27/23480144/urumqi-xinjiang-apartment-fire-china-zero-covid-uyghur-xi-jinping-protest">protests</a>, said Ha-Linh Quach, a research assistant at <a href="https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/directory/detail/Ha-Linh-Quach">Duke NUS medical school</a> in Singapore. Quach — who also previously worked with Vietnam’s National Committee of Covid-19 — said Vietnam followed China’s lead when attempting to manage the spread of the virus, but also found that mass quarantines were publicly unpopular. Instead, in 2021 the country began prioritizing social distancing, mask-wearing policies, and vaccine distribution.
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Unlike other countries — like Taiwan, South Korea, or Singapore — that used periods of strict lockdowns to prepare for their inevitable reopening, and the internal travel that it would spawn, China did no such thing, said Uretsky.
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Rather than reopening in stages, China lifted many of its most useful measures all at once — despite the fact that prior to easing these regulations, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/23/1138965636/surge-in-outbreaks-tests-chinas-easing-of-zero-covid-policy">Covid cases</a> were already on the rise. “Unfortunately for China, lack of preparation for the inevitable breach of an increasingly infectious pathogen results in exactly what we’re seeing,” said Miller.
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For example, alongside these eased regulations, China <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ramp-up-covid-vaccinations-elderly-2022-11-29/">announced</a> it would ramp up its vaccination of the elderly, something the experts Vox spoke to say should have happened much earlier. When the restrictions were lifted, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/business/china-covid-vaccinations.html">only 40 percent</a> of Chinese residents above the age of 80 had received a Covid-19 booster shot, according to China’s National Health Commission.
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Other countries that exited periods of intense lockdowns, such as Vietnam, not only used vaccines to prepare, but also bolstered their social distancing policies and contact tracing programs as they transitioned, said Quach.
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As part of its zero-Covid policies, China used a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoyBLJqDOc0">digital health code system</a> that assigned users QR codes based on their exposure and testing status, and that were needed to enter public spaces. Now, these codes are no longer required to access many public areas or to travel in China.
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Yet Singapore, when the nation lifted many of its zero-Covid policies in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/world/singapore-will-ease-covid-rules-and-open-vaccinations-to-those-12-and-older-and-other-international-news.html">June 2021</a>, continued to use its version of these health codes for almost a year. These codes helped Singapore track down those who were exposed to someone with Covid-19 at an expedited rate. “It is not a breakthrough technology,” Quach said. “But it’s amazing to me how it is being used for public health.”
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That said, these codes, while effective in the small nation of Singapore, had limited success in China due to the country’s size and lack of data-sharing. “On paper, it can work, but it’s very difficult to implement in the real world, especially in such a large country,” said Bouey. “It turns out that every province is doing their own work, and they’re not integrated. So when people travel from one province to another, the code suddenly doesn’t work.”
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Lack of data and rampant misinformation have also exacerbated China’s<strong> </strong>post-lockdown problems. The current outbreak is thought to have begun in November 2022, and although the <a href="https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn">official number</a> of total<strong> </strong>Covid-19 deaths in China, as of January 30, is now over 110,000 — which would still be low<strong> </strong>relative to the nation’s 1.4 billion population — <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/14/covid-news-china-reports-huge-rise-in-deaths-after-who-criticized-data.html">the true figures</a> are thought to be much higher. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04502-w">One model from December</a> predicted that as many as 1 million people could die from Covid in China over the first few months of the year, but without transparent information from Beijing, these forecasts remain speculative.
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“In the absence of data, there is misinformation,” Miller said. “I think the seeds of the spread of Covid were already happening in China. But the information as to the extent of it and the location of it would have allowed people to make informed decisions. In the absence of that, people are making whatever decision they want to make.”
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What this teaches us for the next pandemic
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Assuming another unknown virus will spread across the globe again in our lifetimes, the Covid-19 pandemic has given public health leaders fresh insight into what policies can be most effective in mitigating the spread of diseases. And lockdowns, when used appropriately and swiftly, remain a useful tool in our arsenal for early pandemic days.
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Covid-19 was actually the “ideal candidate” for lockdowns, said Miller. This is because of the virus’s highly transmissible, airborne, and often asymptomatic nature. “Candidates for lockdown include pathogens that are novel to human populations, and therefore there is no innate immunity to them,” Miller said. “Highly infectious pathogens for which there are (currently) no vaccines or treatments are also candidates for lockdown.” In theory, the only type of diseases that lockdowns cannot mitigate are those that are not transmitted via human-to-human contact, such as water or foodborne illnesses, said Bouey.
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Lockdowns give leaders time to develop vaccination distribution campaigns, set up contact tracing programs, and learn more about the pandemic-causing disease, Miller added.
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This is why it’s important to distinguish between “short-term lockdowns with underlying goals” and “long-term lockdowns that hope to beat the odds and keep Covid out indefinitely,” said Miller. Brief lockdowns that helped “flatten the curve” were effective and helped keep hospitalizations and deaths down. But extended lockdowns, like the ones seen in China, failed to contain the virus and damaged the country’s economy and well-being.
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“As we have seen, these lockdowns are very disruptive, in terms of economic livelihood, as well as social life and even mental health,” said Bouey. “There is profound damage to the society and to the economy.”
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<li><strong>What we know about the killing of Tyre Nichols</strong> -
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People attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols at the Tobey Skate Park on January 26, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Tyre Nichols was killed after he was brutally beaten by Memphis police officers on the evening of January 7. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was pulled over for what police said was reckless driving. Three days later, he died from his injuries.
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It’s not the first time that police have turned <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html">a traffic stop into a deadly altercation</a>. Five police officers, all of whom are Black, have been fired for their actions toward Nichols. They have each been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, two charges of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of official misconduct, and one charge of official oppression. (A sixth police officer has been suspended in connection to the case.) If found guilty, the five former officers each face up to 60 years in prison for the murder charge alone.
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The city of Memphis released footage from police body cameras and street cameras that showed the officers repeatedly punching, kicking, and hitting Nichols with a baton — sometimes while he was restrained on the ground.
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The fatal beating has sparked nationwide protests and revived calls for <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/30/23578339/police-reform-tyre-nichols-congress">police reform in Congress</a>.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Time And Tide, Timeless Romance, Wonderful Era and Bella Amor impress</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Transfer News | Joao Cancelo could leave Manchester City amid link with Bayern Munich</strong> - Joao Cancelo has reportedly traveled to Bayern Munich ahead of a potential loan move to the German champions</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Usman Khawaja bags inaugural Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year award</strong> - Named in honour of the legendary Shane Warne, who passed away last year, Khawaja polled 22 votes ahead of Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Farmers looking forward to law on MSP guarantee in Union Budget</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kundannur fireworks accident: Injured worker dies</strong> - Licencee and land owner arrested; Deputy collector to submit report on the accident</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>My phones are being tapped, alleges YSRCP Venkatagiri MLA Anam Ramanarayana Reddy</strong> - The veteran leader, who had worked in the YSR Cabinet, also fears threat to his life as his movements are being ‘closely watched’; Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy too made phone tapping charges earlier</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ruckus at public hearing on Kalaignar Pen Memorial as activists raise concerns</strong> - S. Mugilan, an environmental rights activist, opposed the construction of the memorial and asked why the 383-page draft Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment was published only in English and not in Tamil</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Interesting findings of bird census</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French retirement age strike hits schools and trains</strong> - A new wave of protests begins across France against plans to lift the retirement age from 62 to 64.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Alfredo Cospito: Hunger-striking Italian anarchist moved amid protests</strong> - Alfredo Cospito has been refusing food for more than 100 days in protest at harsh prison conditions.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Joe Biden rules out sending F-16 fighter jets</strong> - Kyiv says it urgently needs further aid to help take control of the country’s airspace from Russia.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What impact has Brexit had on the UK economy?</strong> - It is three years since the UK left the EU and time to start looking at the evidence.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Home Office to resume control of tackling migrant Channel crossings</strong> - The Royal Navy cedes control, as the home secretary warns small boats could cost the Tories the election.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sony: Would-be PlayStation 5 buyers “should have a much easier time” now</strong> - “You should now have a much easier time finding one at retailers globally.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913480">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository</strong> - It remains unclear how the threat actor compromised access token used in the breach. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913534">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>MusicLM: Google AI generates music in various genres at 24 kHz</strong> - Your musical wish is MusicLM’s command, making audio from “rich captions.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913289">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Man wanted for attempted murder is using dating apps while on the run, cops say</strong> - Anyone with information can call the Grants Pass Police tip line. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913479">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Charter settles with family of murder victim, says insurance will cover it</strong> - Settlement under $262 million “shouldn’t cost Charter anything” due to insurance. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913433">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A man who’d just died is delivered to a local mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The female blonde mortician asks the deceased’s wife how she would like the body dressed. She points out that the man looks good in the black suit he is already wearing.
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The widow, however, says that she always thought her husband looked his best in blue and that she wants him in a blue suit.
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She gives the Blonde mortician a blank check and says, ‘I don’t care what it costs, but have my husband in a blue suit for the viewing.’
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The woman returns the next day for the wake. To her delight, she finds her husband dressed in a gorgeous blue suit with a subtle chalk stripe; the suit fits him perfectly…
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She says to the mortician, ‘Whatever this cost, I’m very satisfied… You did an excellent job and I’m very grateful. How much did you spend?’
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To her astonishment, the blonde mortician presents her with the blank check. ‘There’s no charge,’ she says.
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‘No, really, I must compensate you for the cost of that exquisite blue suit!’ she says.
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‘Honestly,’ the blonde says, ‘it cost nothing. You see, a deceased gentleman of about your husband’s size was brought in shortly after you left yesterday, and he was wearing an attractive blue suit. I asked his wife if she minded him going to his grave wearing a black suit instead, and she said it made no difference as long as he looked nice.’
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, “I’ve had enough and have left you. Don’t bother coming after me.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Then she hid under the bed to see his reaction.
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After a short while, the husband comes home and she could hear him in the kitchen before he comes into the bedroom.
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She could see him walk towards the dresser and pick up the note.
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After a few minutes, he wrote something on it before picking up the phone and calling someone.
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"She’s finally gone…yeah I know, about bloody time, I’m coming to see you, put on that sexy French nightie.
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I love you…can’t wait to see you…we’ll do all the naughty things you like."
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He hung up, grabbed his keys and left.
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She heard the car drive off as she came out from under the bed.
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Seething with rage and with tears in her eyes she grabbed the note to see what he wrote…
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“I can see your feet. We’re outta bread: be back in five minutes.”
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An English cat named “OneTwoThree” and a French cat named “UnDeuxTrois” decided to swim across the lake, but only one cat survived the journey. Which cat made it?
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OneTwoThree, because UnDeuxTrois cat sank
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Everyone watching
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To see about getting his penis enlarged. The doctor says “yes we can do that - there’s a new operation these days. We take the trunk of a baby elephant and graft it into your penis.”
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So the man excitedly agrees and gets the operation. Six weeks later after it’s all healed he goes on a date with a woman. While sitting in the restaurant, suddenly his dick reaches up from under the table, grabs a bread roll, and disappears under the table with it.
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The man has a mortified look in his face but his date was visibly impressed. “That’s amazing!” She says. Can you do that again?!
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“We’ll I’d love to, but I don’t think I can fit another bread roll up my ass…”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nervous_Cranberry196"> /u/Nervous_Cranberry196 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10p1o0w/a_man_goes_to_a_doctor/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10p1o0w/a_man_goes_to_a_doctor/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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