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COVID-19 timeline (January)

What we know about asymptomatic cases of Covid-19

What is an asymptomatic carrier? An asymptomatic carrier is a person who is infected with SARS-CoV-2 (tests positive for it), which is the virus that causes Covid-19, but displays no clinical symptoms. There are two possibilities: 1. Some people never develop any symptoms throughout the course of the infection, and the body just clears theContinue reading “What we know about asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 ”

never forget.

All makeshift hospitals in Wuhan have closed as of today (10 March 2020). The darkest hour is finally gone. But it’s not time to celebrate, but to remember. Remember the lives lost and millions of hearts broken. Remember the daughter and the wife chasing the hearses carrying their loved ones. Remember the woman playing theContinue reading “never forget.”

Politics and the Chinese language

I doubt if I’ll have time for any ‘serious’ blogging here but for now I might use this place for organizing and recollecting some of my tweets – or, fragments of thought in the time of fragmentation. Today’s theme is politics and the Chinese language, including political “newspeak”, internet slang terms, and some other stuff.Continue reading “Politics and the Chinese language”