Balkan #1 is up
I just need Australia to show up on the catalog
>>90234 (me)
There we go Tom, that should get the previous list replaced with all Midnight Rider threads. Anons come over and we can do other Internationals
Australia #17 >>>/qresearch/14265549
Covid-19 returns to Wuhan, China
WILL GLASGOW - AUGUST 4, 2021
Wuhan is in a “wartime state”, local officials say, with the coronavirus returning to the central Chinese city where it was first Âdetected in late 2019.
Across China, domestic summer holiday plans are in tatters and mass testing is under way as the fiendishly infectious Delta variant strains even the world’s strictest public health orders.
Many in Wuhan – veterans of last year’s 76-day lockdown – stocked up on essentials on Tuesday, a day after seven new cases were detected in the city, which has a population 11 million.
Simon Carter, an Australian geophysicist who now lives in Wuhan, set off to buy lentils and red wine before he and his wife lined up for yet another test.
“It was always going to come back,” Dr Carter said. “I do worry. When do we get back to normal?”
Life in Wuhan has actually been closer to normal than in most of the world over the past 14 months, the last time officials announced a coronavirus case had been found in the city.
A year ago, thousands in Wuhan celebrated their freedom from the pandemic with a mask-less pool party that stunned the world outside China.
That won’t be repeated this month now that Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, has joined the burgeoning list of Chinese Âcities struggling with a growing cluster of Delta cases.
The Chinese outbreak began with the infection of an airport cleaner in Nanjing in China’s east in July and has since spread to Beijing, Shanghai, Yantai and Wuhan, as well as some of the country’s most populous provinces, including Hunan and Fujian.
Wuhan’s summer holiday plans are now ruined. And it is the same situation across China, as local governments advise against all but essential travel.
Ms Tan, a teacher in Wuhan, said she had to cancel a planned trip to ÂLiaoning, a province in China’s northeast on the border with North Korea. And she is far from alone.
“Many people I know have had to cancel travel,” she said.
This outbreak is not terrifying like the original one, which killed thousands as Wuhan’s hospital system was the first in the world to be overwhelmed by what was then an unknown virus.
More than a year and a half after those first cases were Âdetected, the country’s coronaÂvirus set-up is formidable.
China was the first country to establish a smartphone check-in system which – combined with a political system that is less troubled than Australia’s with individual rights – has helped with contact tracing.
It has also pioneered a system of mass testing that operates on a scale unparalleled in the world. The entire population of Wuhan – which is the size of Melbourne and Sydney combined – was first tested in just 10 days last May.
Following orders this week from Hubei party secretary Ying Yong to “quickly enter a wartime state”, the city’s 11 million people are being tested again. They aim to be completed by next week.
Similar mass testing is being undertaken across the country as China’s officials desperately try to retain the almost Covid-free status of the world’s second-Âbiggest economy.
They hope it will allow China’s cities to avoid the extended lockdowns that have occurred in ÂAustralia.
More than half of China’s 1.4 billion people have been twice jabbed with the locally made SinoÂvac and Sinopharm vaccines.
While those vaccines have not stopped people getting infected with Delta, China’s most famous doctor Zhong Nanshan said they had greatly reduced the severity of the cases.
“They still have a protective Âeffect,” said Dr Zhong in an interview with Chinese media.
The national Covid-19 outbreak – which grew to a total of 61 new domestic cases on Monday – has overtaken China’s gold medal dominance at the Tokyo Olympics as the most discussed topic in the country.
As in Australia, many in China are grumbling about whether this current outbreak could have been avoided.
Feng Jun, who was the party secretary of Nanjing airport until he was sacked last month, has been widely pilloried.
“He ruined the summer Âvacation of all Chinese students,” said one commentator.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/covid19-returns-to-wuhan-china/news-story/67168cb79f07deb4f9e76c9644d621c3
OK, sometimes a ship will report herself as "Not Under Command" when she is in an anchorage area waiting her turn in port to load/unload. Means there is nobody on the bridge to help avoid collision so passing ships know to be diligent. It does NOT generally mean loss of steering control. The mast lights had a rhyme they taught us young sailors: "Red over Red, Captain's dead" so we knew vessel not under command and can't take action to avoid us, we had to do all the steering around.
This is giving me the "look here, not there" vibe.
SCOTUS does nothing.
More and more a need for a Convention of the States. The Federal Government is no longer viable.
Let's go three Senators from each State, one from each Territory, and get rid of the House of Representatives. Imagine the savings on salaries and need for office space by that kind of Reduction In Force. States and Commonwealth's can keep the Bicameral Legislatures, let the three Senators represent the State's interests at the federal level.
>>90301 (me)
Ooops, forgot to add the "think about it" part. Honestly, is not having House at both State and Federal levels "Duplication of Effort?"
This House is giving millions away to Pakistan for "gender studies." I see the guys getting the money and buying a single Biology book. "Says here Male, Female, occasionally a Hermaphrodite, so basically TWO genders. Okay, great, Gender Studies complete, thanks for the $42 million."
And the unconstitutional acts, and admitting they are unconstitutional…. does that now release the Armed Forces from obeying any of Creepy Joe's orders? My Oath was "protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic" If the Commander-in-Chief is willfully and admittedly violating the Constitution, then don't all his orders become null and void? If I was still in uniform them it would be "my Oath is to the Constitution, this dude violates that openly and admits he's doing it?, fine, I shall consider anything he orders to be an Unlawful Order and not obey. Put me in the brig if you wanna, but have fun sailing that ship without me, your khaki-clad asses might have to actually do some work."
Soapbox is now open…
AH, that would explain the extra media push today about being so afraid of the "Delta Variant" and ermagherd Gov so bad not going with the stupid on the Local News today.
Joe DeSniffer: Get the jab or I'll make you!
Ron DeSantis: Give the Illegals the jab or keep them out Bitch.
I can see Joe going "I'll send troops!" and Ron going "fine, State Constitution says I can raise a State Defense Force and my guys will be mostly veterans, know your gear, and happily meet your guys if I tell 'em they can keep what they take."
Sounds like a double-edged sword that can be used in the future.
Pushed the poisons, lose the License