DNYUZ/New York Times: The world surpasses 400 million known coronavirus cases and confronts how to live with Covid.
The world surpassed 400 million known coronavirus cases on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, just one month after reaching 300 million.
It is a staggering increase driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant as governments and individuals worldwide wrestle with how to confront the next stage of the pandemic.
It took more than a year for the world to reach 100 million confirmed infections: The first cases were identified in late 2019, and the 100 millionth in January 2021.
It took only seven months to double that number, and now six months to double it again.
Daily case counts have begun to decline, but there have been an average of more than 2.7 million infections reported every day.
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WNU Editor: The global Covid response program is out of money .... Global COVID response program 'running on fumes' amid budget shortfall (Reuters).
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Check Out the Beijing Free Style Skiing Venue/Mountain!!
Fake snow & scaffold in a wasteland.
https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1490723277425152003
You can ski indoors in Dubai, U.A. E. Maybe that would have been a better solution.
https://www.visitdubai.com/en/places-to-visit/ski-dubai
I think the site of the venue would be distracting.
A back drop of cooling towers does not bother me (I know it bugs liberals. when they want to show pollution, they show pure water vapor wafting off of cooling towers.). Being in the middle of an old factory complex might.
The Olympics are a farce anyway. Maybe not in the 60s or 70s, but checking out the map now shows the are 1984 writ over sports (Look at the green, if you are a lit. major).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Winter_Olympics_team_numbers.svg
Site selection for the ski ramp is interesting. You can usually count on cold given latitude and other factors in winter. You cannot always count on enough snow. So they have artificial snow. So why could they not have the artificial snow and ramp in a more scenic place?
Again a hyperboloid structure do not bug me. Rusting warehouses and industrial ponds do. Was the CCP trying to cut a corner, could not eminent domain a patch of real estate elsewhere (seems unlikely), or was it an in your face maneuver? Maybe the latter is reading too much into it even as a brain storming guess.
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