Then there's the Central Asian migrants working in Russia. Kazakh women in traditional costume:
Posted on 02/23/2020 7:10:16 PM PST by Zhang Fei
MOSCOW -- Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital.
“Some Asian-looking (people) have just got on. Probably Chinese. Should I call (the police)?” one driver messaged his peers. “How do I figure out if they’re Chinese? Should I ask them?” a colleague wondered.
The befuddlement reflected in screenshots of the group exchanges seen by The Associated Press had a common source - instructions from Moscow's public transit operator Wednesday for drivers to call a dispatcher if Chinese nationals boarded their buses, Russian media reported.
A leaked email that the media reports said was sent by the state-owned transportation company Mosgortrans told dispatchers who took such calls to notify the police. The email, which the company immediately described on Twitter as fake, carried a one-word subject line: coronavirus.
Since the outbreak of the new virus that has infected more than 76,000 people and killed more than 2,300 in mainland China, Russia has reported two cases. Both patients, Chinese nationals hospitalized in Siberia, recovered quickly. Russian authorities nevertheless are going to significant — some argue discriminatory — lengths to keep the virus from resurfacing and spreading.
Moscow officials ordered police raids of hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings and businesses to track down the shrinking number of Chinese people remaining in the city. They also authorized the use of facial recognition technology to find those suspected of evading a 14-day self-quarantine period upon their arrival in Russia.
“Conducting raids is an unpleasant task, but it is necessary, for the potential carriers of the virus as well,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement outlining various methods to find and track Chinese people the city approved as
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Then there's the Central Asian migrants working in Russia. Kazakh women in traditional costume:
Send the women to my place for inspection.
Nice work, if you can get it.
The difference between Han Chinese and other Asian groups is obvious for a trained eye.
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A lot of Mongolians in Russia, as well.
You’ll need backup, I offer my skilled services.
Sorry guys, they are already here enjoying a nice Zin with me. We are working on the language barrier right now.
The difference between the Mongolian and Chinese is more than between the German and Arab.
“NO!” is fairly universally understood.
Where are the flights to Kazakhstan at?
lol
If you need any help, I speak the language of love.
But it’s been so long I forgot most of the language! :)
Governments' responses worry as much as the disease itself.Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Fortunately, they know “come hither” better than “NO!” Just look at the babe on the right and that cute finger on the cheek!
LOL. I speak the language of love, but some parts just don’t perk up to it like they used to.
2600 deaths / 77000 infected = a little over 3 percent death rate among the infected in China, if those numbers are believed to represent similar portions of the real dead and infected there. In western countries, only those who are concerned about the elderly and obese would care much.
http://www.arirang.com/news/News_View.asp?nseq=253034
:)
The raids are a drastic response, but the fears are understandable.
Source: Many Medical Staff Infected at Major Hospital in Wuhan, China, After Treating Coronavirus Patients
https://www.theepochtimes.com/source-many-medical-staff-infected-at-major-hospital-in-wuhan-china-after-treating-coronavirus-patients_3247813.html
It would appear that Moscow’s bus drivers lack the trained eye you mentioned.
That’s given the article is not a baloney. Half of the bus drivers in Moscow are Asians themselves. They sure know the difference between themselves and the Chinese.
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