Why “I don’t believe Chinas Covid numbers” is a cop out; a thread:
First caveat; nobody is going to be able to detect all cases of Covid, if your standard is absolute 100% accuracy your standard is ridiculous and no nation is meeting it. That being said examine the problem purely from a logistics perspective
Dec 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I had made allusions to this in another tweet; but so much of healthcare problems that are going to be faced as a result of this pandemic come down to chronic manpower shortages.
This remains true in the practice *of* statecraft. Hospitals need nurses, industrial networks require truckers/ train engineers, etc.. The pandemic has and will continue to wear down on essential networks of supplies, but also on workers who maintain them
Nov 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For those who don't know: 安全带使用体验= "Safety Harness demonstration"
If we’re being pedantic it’s technically “experience the safety harness for yourself” but the effective meaning is synonymous but more succinct with the way I translated it
