Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and South Korea acted contrarily to the WHO recommendations, and successfully contained two coronavirus waves without lockdowns.
- Frontline countries that didn’t join China’s Belt and Road Initiative and historically had very complicated relationship with China, were able to implement drastic measures from the start of the outbreak.
- Countries that have strong political and economic ties to China were limited in their ability to implement strict measures in order to protect their own population from the coronavirus.
- Countries that followed the WHO travel recommendations have failed to react early enough to stop imported cases.
- Due to early measures taken to contain the virus, many frontline countries didn’t need strict lockdowns.
The third global wave will hit developing countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Russia, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, and will be accompanied by global economic turmoil and famine.
- Two thirds of world’s population live in the countries that didn’t peak, nor contained the virus yet.
- Pandemic waves can be observed on different graphs: from total cases to death rates.
- There was a big delay between the first and second waves, but the time gap between the second and third waves will be much smaller.
- The second global wave affected mostly developed countries, while the third wave will hit developing countries.
- According to the popular in finance Elliot waves principle, the third epidemic wave will peak at the higher level, than previous waves.
- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Russia, Nigeria…
Mainstream media doesn’t explain why the coronavirus death rate keeps changing up and down, so it’s time to tackle certain misconceptions and see what the death rate can tell us about the past and the future of this pandemic.
- Most news outlets use the case fatality rate (CFR), which is not an accurate representation of a real death rate during an outbreak.
- The final death rate will be very different in each country, city, and wave.
- The global death rate (not only death toll) rises in the beginning of each wave and then slowly decreases in the end of the wave.
- The real death rate in the US didn’t show up yet, because the US is a few weeks behind Italy and Spain.
- The death rate will increase in the US within a month or so, especially if the…
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- Debunking misconceptions about crypto deflation
- How not to lose your money when entering a crypto market
- How to choose the core holdings of a crypto portfolio (current)
- Satellite holdings and rebalancing of a crypto portfolio
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- How not to lose your money when entering a crypto market (current)
- How to choose the core holdings of a crypto portfolio
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HK youths: Hong Kong is not China!
Chinese: Hong Kong is a part of China!
Me: Hong Kong is a Cypherpunk Harbour!
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Decentralized governance: inside Hong Kong’s open source revolution (LIHKG, Reddit, Pincong, GitHub)
Dear passengers, welcome to Hong Kong, Cypherpunk Harbour. Please wipe out your chat logs, photos, videos, browsing history, and put on a mask before proceeding to a counter. Enjoy your stay and be water.
Disclaimer: in this article we focus on organization and tech, rather than politics. To Chinese nationalists: if you disagree with information below, feel free to participate in the discussion in a civil and polite way. Both sides have a right to speak out, that’s called freedom of speech. And if you think that I’m a pro-US shill, then read my article about US imperialism. To HK activists: the information is taken from open sources such as public tg groups, lihkg, reddit, so it won’t expose any secrets, but it will tackle “foreign interference” myth. This article is brought to you…
