Tag: coronavirus
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An Update on My Chinese Studies – January 2020
Despite the current hubbub around the coronavirus and the international panic it’s causing, I’m still finding time to study my Chinese. I mean, what else am I suppose to do? As you can see, I’ve managed to put in quite a bit of contact time with the language, around 67.5 hours in the month of…
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It’s official: We’re living in an outbreak
So the most recent news is that the World Health Organization has issued notice that the Coronavirus outbreak in China now meets the criteria to be a public health emergency. Why this decision? There were a few reasons listed on the website, among them the fact that human-to-human transmission has occurred both inside and outside of…
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Beijing has gotten really quiet
How quiet is “really quiet”? I no longer hear the cleaning lady use the elevator to go up to the top floor to begin her morning garbage duty. The elevator itself is being used far less (I live right by the thing). And if the fridge isn’t doing its cycle and I just sit in…