Bharat Rakshak

DavidD

China can just produce more coal, so long as the government is willing to relax environmental and safety standards temporarily. The other issue is that electricity price is capped in China, which makes coal-fired power plants unprofitable with current prices, so many are shut down or running at half...

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The charges were for espionage. I don't think it's unusual for states to exchange assets, including spies, unceremoniously. Yes, the charges of the two Michaels were known. Meng Wanzhou was not arrested on spying charges. I was referring to the 'immediate punishment' concept of China. And, the sequ...

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Well the hieress did make a deal with US prosecutors. So she got released, once she got released the Canadian hostages were released. This sequence of events is quite interesting. PRC has admitted that Huawei, is a front organization. Regardless of what they claim about it in the future. Huawei mus...

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Well the hieress did make a deal with US prosecutors. So she got released, once she got released the Canadian hostages were released. This sequence of events is quite interesting. PRC has admitted that Huawei, is a front organization. Regardless of what they claim about it in the future. Huawei mus...

DavidD

I thought the Taliban has had the list of collaborators for a while now. Wasn't there already a big stink made about how the list would become a hit list? I guess this new list clarifies who the Americans value more, but doesn't seem like something groundbreaking.

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What if, just what if and this is hypothetically speaking - The Chinese start mining aggressively in Afghanistan (After all the Taliban thinks the chinese are good) and start selling goods manufactured in China (through American factories) into Afghanistan. Say rare earths are mined and shipped to ...

DavidD

Afghan military did not lack spine. They have no reason to fight taliban. This is the real truth in my opinion. Whole world is trying to teach civilizational values to the people who don't see any value in it. Agreed, and I wouldn't be too high-browed about "civilizational values" either....

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Need to factor in the requirement of repeat vaccinations on say a yearly basis.. or might need vaccination twice a year to prevent severe illness.. Pfizer's CEO says Covid vaccine effectiveness drops to 84% after six months I took Moderna (they claim efficacy of 93% after 6 months), my wife Pfizer....

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^^^In the US, masks mandates were lifted in May 2021 by the CDC for spurious reasons. All the while the CDC knew of the impact of the Delta variant. Mask mandates should have remained until at least 60% of the total population of a state is fully vaccinated. The current US regime is entirely respon...

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Rudradev, Yes the Deng's succession mechanism diffused the Mandate of Heaven which as David points out is people's acceptance or jana samudaya. Xi Jinping by reverting old style Emperor will face public anger incase of any problems. And he is facing problems as the Financial Times article wrote. Wi...

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"It might simply take longer for 1 billion plus to leave authoritarianism behind than for 20 million to do so like in Taiwan" CCP has learnt one lesson from the collapse of Soviet Union - a materially impoverished people will make the ruling class/system fall. Which was the very justifica...

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Thanks for the feedback. Someone did a math modeling of Chinese dynasty and tried to fit math relationship. The eleven dynasties had from one generation to quite long duration. Some of them were short span due to losing the MoH quickly. I think Communist dynasty rule will be short span for its agai...

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Yeah but is that any different from 2003? The CCP has been marketing itself as the savior of China from kindergarten onwards since at least when I was going to school there in the 90s. Of late I have read quite a few books on China: history, politics, Confucius, Three Kingdoms, Qing Dynasty, Mao, D...

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I had an interaction with an official from China and he directed me to this document in reference to my question of Xi Jinping/CCP standing in China (it in essence says that there was virtually complete satisfaction with the government at all levels of governance). He was in fact suggesting that bo...

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Unfathomable why there is so much complexity in getting organised and administering vaccinations in EU even today, especially in France where 52M adults need to be vaccinated, which is a fraction of India's population. First vaccinations started around Jan 3rd, now 2 months later we are barely hitt...

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is there any data on safety of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. My father have epilepsy, high bp, COPD bcos of smoking, diabetes and headaches quite often. Most probably he will be given Pfizer shot(we live in EU). can any learned member tell if is it safe for him to get vaccinated? he has been staying ...

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5Forty3 Published a long retrospective on 2020. Here is the URL 2020 Explained Using a swab, a lab technician collects RNA from an individual’s nasal cavity. This RNA is then Reverse Transcribed into DNA. Then, through Polymerase Chain Reaction, specific sequences of genetic codes that are characte...

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Lawsuits are certainly a concern, my wife's been involved in a couple lawsuits already in just a few years of practice, but she's an OBGYN so a lot higher risk there. I wouldn't underestimate the amount of pressure from colleagues as well. I work as a hospitalist in a group, we all take care each ot...

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How is such a journal considered to be a premier medical journal? While IEEE sometimes pulls crap like this (remember the H1b thing) it is nowhere at this level... Yeah, I think these journals. Should refrain from such overtly political articles. These editors can publish these views in newspapers,...

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You're interested in the import data. I'm interested in the trade balance. US and SoKo show a YoY drop in both imports and exports and a small improvement in trade balance. The gain in surplus against China is more than 2x the gain against anyone else who's not a source of hydrocarbons or gems/gold...

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China is the only country on that list from which imports were explicitly targeted. The other poster asks for a causal relationship, implying that there's only a correlative one (imports from everywhere dropped, China just more so). But the reality is that China was the only one explicitly targeted...

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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective in late-stage trial Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing Covid-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancet international medical journal on Tuesday. The re...

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The economic survey reports information on trade balances with major partners for the year up to November 2020. Economic Survey 2020-21 Table 3 shows the impact of Indian constrictions on Chinese goods - the trade deficit with China for April-November is down by over $10 billion. Temporarily, there...

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On the flip side, it's 66% effective against moderate to severe COVID , not all symptomatic COVID, so it's not comparable to the metrics advertised by the other vaccines. Interesting! I wonder why they chose to report a different metric. Shows the importance of peer reviewed publication of results ...

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J&J says its Covid vaccine is 66% effective, but the single shot may fall short against variants Adding a bit more information from another source: " A team of scientists at the company were "elated" and "joyful" when they saw the results, Dr. Mathai Mammen, M.D., Ph.D....

DavidD

There has not much been much concern regarding the B117 strain when it comes to vaccine resistance. Both Pfizer and Moderna tested their vaccines against this strain and they both work. The concern thus far is with the South African strain. This has been stated repeatedly in various forums, includi...

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Mollick.R wrote:

Is that net inflows? How can a country get over 100% reduction?

DavidD

There is a much bigger concern regarding the P1 variant from Brazil. This one seems to be defying heard immunity. Reinfections More Likely With New Coronavirus Variants, Evidence Suggests Back in April, COVID-19 hit the city of Manaus, Brazil, extremely hard. In fact, the outbreak there was arguabl...

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There has not much been much concern regarding the B117 strain when it comes to vaccine resistance. Both Pfizer and Moderna tested their vaccines against this strain and they both work. The concern thus far is with the South African strain.

DavidD

Is Covaxin proven effective? Why are they not administering covaxin in India? Covaxin is based on traditional reliable technology. Theoretically, it can be effective against mutations. Ph 1&2 was good enough for safety Efficacy will be based on Ph 3 data, which is scheduled to conclude in Feb. ...

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13718024/china-trick-world-into-lockdown-open-letterr/amp/ China tricked world on lockdown? It's quite ironic that some Chinese were screaming Western propaganda when images of people down on the street were shown, and now some Westerners are calling it Chinese propaga...

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An Indian app could do the same thing, . . . It doesn't matter what an Indian App can or cannot do. That doesn't mean that a bunch of Chinese can come into my country, swindle people and take away the money. After all, China is an enemy country. Let us not get into metaphysics. And I'm saying that ...

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I am not sure why some people are screaming that Covaxin is 100%, 110%, 200% safe. No one is questioning if it is safe or not. Drinking a glass of water is also safe, but it is not going to prevent infection from Covid-19. Despite having many cases and homegrown vaccine candidates, we have not been...

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I guess it might be a good idea to ban ALL Chinese apps. Unless proved otherwise , they are all detrimental to the economy and people. An Indian app could do the same thing, it could even use Chinese money since in this instance the app is nothing special unlike say TikTok. You need to crack down o...

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I dont know much about the vaccine science, however, want to indulge in whatabouttery here, did the turds who are talking now about covaxin question sinovac or the sputnik-5 vac ?whats wrong with us Indians running every effort down. Be constructive, positive, ask for more data dont be sceptical Id...

DavidD

One jab of Pfizer gives 52% protection/immunity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.amp.html Again, that's an incorrect interpretation of the data. It takes time to for the vaccine to work, so since there is no comparison study between one vs two doses, there is no proof ...

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As I was expecting -- India likely to approve Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine today ___ In US vaccine distribution has been incredibly slow and chaotic. Israel is planning to distribute to all elders and hope to reduce deaths by 90% in next few months. Canada is likely to get massive distributi...

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The second shot is critical. https://www.businessinsider.com/emergency-room-doctor-positive-covid-19-after-pfizer-vaccine-2020-12 An emergency-room doctor tested positive for coronavirus 9 days after getting vaccinated. That's not a sign the vaccine didn't work. Josh Mugele worked the night shift o...

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Where are you guys finding the data for Pfizer, Moderna, and the Oxford vaccine? Even if it's not peer reviewed, I'd love to take a look.

DavidD

What should a shipping company do if a port authority refuses to allow a ship to berth? I think they just go somewhere else that'll allow them to dock. Isn't that what happened with the Beirut explosion? The ship was supposed to ship fertilizers to an African country, but was denied docking, so the...

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