[HN Gopher] North Korea Imposes Lockdown on Pyongyang to Fight '...
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North Korea Imposes Lockdown on Pyongyang to Fight 'Recurrent Flu'
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-01-27 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| abracadaniel wrote:
| I assumed that they'd had multiple waves of covid already, but I
| suppose being so isolated to everyone but China, it's possible
| they could only just now be getting the first substantial wave.
| IMSAI8080 wrote:
| They generally had traders bribing their way backwards and
| forwards to China all the time and at least a steady trickle of
| foreign tourists, so it seemed unlikely they wouldn't get it.
| But it does say in the article they had shut their border in
| the pandemic so maybe they clamped down hard on unofficial
| China visits. I hear it's easier to get over to China in the
| winter as the river separating the countries freezes over.
| Maybe traders have been making it over in more recent months
| and brought the latest covid back.
| lmedinas wrote:
| i guess its not hard to do taking into account how the regime
| works. Also having people sick and not having medicine available
| can lead to lots of deaths.
| Guthur wrote:
| [flagged]
| NotYourLawyer wrote:
| That's not what gene therapy is.
| Guthur wrote:
| Call it what you will.
| ChrisClark wrote:
| You need to actually start listening to scientists, not
| crackpots. :D
| Guthur wrote:
| The scientists all paid for by the very companies that
| stand to make billions, I'll stick to the crackpots.
|
| But to each his own, you can follow who you like, I will
| try to find the truth.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| If you're actually trying to find the truth, the
| crackpots are not a very good guide.
|
| And _some_ scientists are paid for by the companies. Not
| all. It 's something you have to watch out for,
| certainly...
| schimmy_changa wrote:
| This is not very relevant to tech / hacking, but is instead just
| world news... Let's keep HN focused, and not let it end up like
| the front page of reddit, etc
| dqpb wrote:
| Everything is a system
| Enginerrrd wrote:
| I emphatically disagree. HN is one of the best places I've
| found on the entire internet to get a pulse on the future. You
| have SME's on almost every subject imaginable that populate
| this sub. I've seen things coming down the pipe anywhere from a
| week to 2-4 months before the news really broke by reading
| through the comments here. That's INVALUABLE to me.
|
| From the guidelines for acceptable posts: >"Anything that good
| hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking
| and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer
| might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
| curiosity."
|
| I'm not sure why you think world news / geopolitics /
| epidemiology / public interventions is something unworthy of
| inspiring intellectual curiosity?
| gerdesj wrote:
| I agree with you. HN has a certain degree of self control
| built in and dang's all seeing eye helps bring people back
| in-line. Only recently, Dan hauled me up for being a bit of a
| tosser and I apologised.
|
| There are world renowned experts on many subjects that hang
| around here and the likes of me who aren't. I too have a wide
| range of interests and they extend way beyond IT. It's great
| when a big hitter sidles on in and gives some insights from
| the front lines.
|
| This is probably the only forum that I have seen discussion
| relating to SARS-CoV-2 that has been close to useful or at
| least somewhat civil, err not a complete flamewar, OK
| slightly civil.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| The top article at the moment is about D&D rules. Is that ok?
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/#:~:text=%7C%20hide%20%7C-,37%C...
| .
| bayindirh wrote:
| Yes.
| VWWHFSfQ wrote:
| where does HN have a rule that requires submissions to be about
| tech or hacking
| jrockway wrote:
| There isn't a rule. The comment you're replying to just
| shares the author's preferences. If you like their way of
| thinking, then maybe you'll think about that when you're
| about to hit the submit button on something not related to
| tech or hacking. If you don't like their way of thinking,
| then maybe you'll submit the top post from r/politics every
| morning. It's up to you.
|
| I will say that I haven't enjoyed the political discussions
| on HN. They get too heated, too quickly. But, I simply don't
| participate much in those. I'm not upset if other people
| enjoy them.
| jonas-w wrote:
| > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or
| sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new
| phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal
| pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-
| topic.
|
| They are probably referring to the off-topic part of the
| guidelines. This article is something that will be very
| likely in the TV news.
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