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China’s wandering elephants: Video captures calves play fighting
Perpetual amusement, as the heffalumps (Coconut's name for the creatures from since little, read in some book) have been on the (so far 500km) trek since mid-March 2020 shortly after we arrived in Cape Town and whilst we were on Safari. They lived in elephant reserve @ Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan Province and are being guided to original or some other reserve northwest.
S. Africa Faces New Lockdown Curbs as Delta Variant Spreads
Am glad we lived in S Africa and am glad we are in HK. I believe the 1st March - 25th July 2020 stay in Cape Town, and the decompression in Vancouver to 13th August be super for the kids.
The kids have never spent entire summer in HK since birth, and good they are doing so now.
At one point during our stay in Cape Town we did have a call with an immigration lawyer (~US$ 10K for a family of four gets some sort of immigrant visa). We needed to go through the motions of investigating how to LT stay as we weren't sure after a few months when we would be able to return to HK. Our tourist visas issued at arrival airport were expiring. We eventually got out by repatriation flight via Amsterdam & Vancouver. I remember fondly the gathering at sports stadium and the camaraderie of fellow and fellowette refugees. Had I thought the CoVid was more deadly (think airborne Ebola and such) we would have stayed on in Cape Town and avoided onward journey, and that then now would have proven to be a possible mistake. Good we are not dealing w/ airborne Ebola.
begs the follow-on question, is the war losable? Unclear to me what shall happen in Afghanistan, but perhaps a different approach can be tried. Turkey is up next, volunteered. Am going to guess Turkey shall turn tail voanews.com
Taliban Tells Turkey Continued Troop Presence in Afghanistan Is 'Unacceptable'
... because there are way too many unanswered questions, and the MSM shouting the loudest are the same that spoke about the China spy chips in Amazon / Apple products as if they were facts as opposed to out and out lies Message 33376308
Former cybersecurity specialist at GCHQ says Bloomberg spy chip story based on misunderstanding
well ... a misunderstand that likely cost 10s of millions in investigation up wrong trees and down not-right rabbit holes, and helped to justify a trade war costing much more.
Call it the peaceful unwinnable war that might be sorted out 20 years since inception. As inception was ~2009 (tire tariffs money.cnn.com ) we have 8 years to go, taking us into 2029, between 2026 and 2032. Looks about right.
U.S. Covid Cases Found as Early as December 2019, Says Study
Testing has found Covid-19 infections in the U.S. in December 2019, according to a study, providing further evidence indicating the coronavirus was spreading globally weeks before the first cases were reported in China.
The study published Monday identified 106 infections from 7,389 blood samples collected from donors in nine U.S. states between Dec. 13 and Jan. 17. The samples, collected by the American Red Cross, were sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing to detect if there were antibodies against the virus.
Coronavirus: Hong Kong sets daily record for number of vaccinations, as health minister says half of population could be inoculated by August
Health chief Sophia Chan also reassures public some 30,000 tests sparked by a variant case involving an airport worker had returned no positive results
Medical experts say Chan’s projection is within the realm of possibility, but urge the government to do more to encourage young people and the elderly to get their shots
We are still in the watch & brief mode w/r to vaccination. Let us see if the schools require it and if the situation justifies it. Am not opposed to others vaccinate per free choice. Am not systemically / philosophically against vaccination. Am simply unsure (i) the disease warrants it for all, (ii) the vaccines are safe for seniors, (iii) the kids are vulnerable, (iv) the vaccines are any good for long enough, and (v) the side effects are not hidden. Am essentially agnostic.
