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The Word from Wuhan

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Re: The Word from Wuhan

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> There is a phrase in China for the way such tensions are manifested: when everyone denies all responsibility and tries to shift the blame back onto the blamer, they are busy ‘throwing woks’.

I appreciate learning idioms of countries foreign to me, and in this case it makes for a great article.

Re: The Word from Wuhan

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Little more about the student lead DDOS attack here - https://technode.com/2020/03/02/dingtalk-begs-for-stars-on-c...

On the first day back to school, DingTalk saw over 50 million students and 600,000 teachers in China using its live-streaming feature to hold online classes.

OMG! Their infrastructure team must be so proud, I can't imagine the app saw even a one-hundrenth of that much traffic before then.

Re: The Word from Wuhan

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Expecting local officials to deal effectively with extraordinary circumstances is unrealistic. A wealthy populous nation should be able to support a team of national experts to assist in times and places of particular need, in a variety of fields including that of infectious disease. The system described in TFA seems rather more like a struggle among competing cults of personality. "Your mayor sucks! Now you will be ruled by our super-mayor!" "Does he know a single thing about health?" "Who knows?! Who cares!? He has a take-charge personality!"
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