Can anyone explain this? Israel has already vaccinated nearly 30% of its population, yet infections are still rising at record rates? Infections beyond the US'.
I assume there's a delay between vaccination and protection, but even 14 days ago 15% had been vaccinated.
btw this isnt anything anti-vax or like "GOTCHYA DOCTORS" just curious about why we're not seeing an effect or is it stopping an even steeper climb so the effect is hidden or targetted(/racialised) vaccinations and different people getting infected?
Someone in DMs also mentioned that the mental safety-blanket of a coming vaccine is probably causing people to take more risks and be less mindful in how they might spread the disease.
Both of which make sense.
And another good thread that's looked at exactly what I was wondering
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A new @ndtv report shows satellite imagery showing a village (2020扶贫村) constructed by China on the banks of the Tsari Chu (ndtv.com/india-news/chi…). It seems to be within Indian claimed territory, but before a Chinese installation that's been in place since before 2000
First, let's look at a timeline of the site. In December 2019, the site was a forested confluence of a stream and the Tsari Chu river, by April 2020 the area had been cleared, and some construction appears to have begun. By August, much of the construction seemed mostly finished.
The bigger issue with boundary disputes between China and India like this is not just that both sides have different claims, but they have different interpretations of eachother's claims. In Galwan/Pangong that was the main sticking point.
It's completely shameful for a special rapporteur at the UN to lend the legitimacy of her role to a website that routinely and almost exclusively presents absurd conspiracy theories and historical revisionism for dozens of places across the world, including Syria and Xinjiang.
Not only is it shameful, but it's completely inappropriate. Imagine a UN official for human trafficking conducting an 'Ask me anything' on 8kun, or a Qanon forum, & you have an idea of how much of an affront this is to genuine victims, or frankly, anyone interested in the truth.
This whole 'investigation' is hilarious. While they're talking, a satellite image showing ~1,500 detainees being forcibly transfered literally over their shoulder.
They also say that the BBC is wrong because that re-education camp has closed. Hence the transfer we see.
Here's a free tip to whichever propaganist intern is told to make the next debunking video:
Saying 'this particular concentration camp has closed therefore all the reports of concentration camps (that we just confirmed) are wrong' isn't the own that you think it is.
Their last effort to debunk showed drone video filmed 8km away from a prison as a way to disprove it. So at least this time they've put in more effort, even if it is equally unconvincing.
Chinese State Media in a live-stream today shows off a remotely controlled gun for police. They explicitly mention that this platform is meant for lethality, to "shoot the criminals". It's similar to a bomb-defusing robot, with a live weapon (anyone want to ID the gun?) attached.
Here is its control terminal.
It's called the uBOT-OCU, which I guess confirms its relation to bomb-defusing platforms, with a uBOT-EOD developed by (I believe) the Taihong Weishi Security Equipment Company, see: ipsc007.com/product-4-1182…
They also showed off a gun that can shoot around corners, and seemingly (the CGTN translation isnt perfet) can be automatically fired at a specific target by touching a screen where you want the gun to fire. Don't take that feature as confirmed though.
Reporters from the BBC visited a detention facility in Xinjiang's Kuqa that opened in mid-2017. In May 2019, a 35,000m2 factory opened directly adjacent to the camp. Less than a week after it was completed, satellite imagery caught ~1,500 people being moved to the factory.
The line stretches 200m between the camp and the factory, called Kuqa Pomegranite Seed Industry Co (库车石榴籽实业有限公司), and with a rough density analysis you can estimate the crowd at around 1,500 individuals. Moving DIRECTLY from a camp to a factory.
During the week between when the factory was completed and when a mass transfer of detainees was captured by satellite imagery the detention facility itself was significantly desecuritised. Watchtowers were removed, internal fencing was lowered and concrete walls were removed.