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The Word from Wuhan (lrb.co.uk) 63

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
An excerpt from a piece on the situation at Wuhan, where many are quarantined: Schools are suspended until further notice. With many workplaces also shut, notoriously absent Chinese fathers have been forced to stay home and entertain their children. Video clips of life under quarantine are trending on TikTok. Children were presumably glad to be off school -- until, that is, an app called DingTalk was introduced. Students are meant to sign in and join their class for online lessons; teachers use the app to set homework. Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me.'
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  • Downmodded into oblivion (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    If only the App Store had meta moderation!

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      If only the App Store had meta moderation!

      If only people bothered to meta moderate!

  • It's Not Just Wuhan (Score:3, Interesting)

    by buravirgil ( 137856 ) <buravirgil@gmail.com> on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:05AM (#59810972)
    This article presents a scope seemingly particular to the epicenter and is tailored propaganda by omission for nerds. China, the nation as a whole, shut down...that's right...snarky Madagascar reference...everything.

    Exactly what the US seems on edge about, China did. Schools. Jobs. Transportation. And the exceptions and mechanisms and procedures of exception that were made to arrest any futher advance of clusters should be reported, but are not. Incrementally returning a prioritized range of enterprise from construction to shopping is vital information to be shared, but is not given frame.

    You know the motel converted to a hospital that collapsed? Its reportage is as though it's a crisis within a China returned to normalcy. It's still ghost-towns throughout the nation.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      It's not the whole nation. A lot of factories in Shenzhen are back up and running and fulfilling the backlog of orders. Handling the situation has been passed down to local authorities in most places and they will decide when it's safe to lift any restrictions that they imposed.

      • It's not the whole nation. A lot of factories in Shenzhen are back up and running and fulfilling the backlog of orders. Handling the situation has been passed down to local authorities in most places and they will decide when it's safe to lift any restrictions that they imposed.

        The factories in Shenzhen were the first enterprise given exception two weeks ago. I have lived for six years in the near-interior of Jiangxi and coastal Fujian provinces.

        The article frames Hubei's enforced quarantine excluding any context of advisory quarantines still in effect for the whole country. Are schools and vehicular/mass transit "up and running" in Shenzhen? They are not. Those factories are monitored to safeguard any resurgence of advance because the risks of habitual congregation are being as

      • There is a big difference between opening a factory (only requires a guard) and restarting production in a way that would fulfill the backlog of orders. That requires travel restrictions to be lifted, and supplier factories to also be running.

        Also, international shipping is not back to normal yet. Things like Jasmine rice from Thailand are running out in US stores. Thai restaurants are serving up California rice for the first time. Production in Thailand is unaffected, nothing is closed there. But shipping

        • There is a big difference between opening a factory (only requires a guard) and restarting production in a way that would fulfill the backlog of orders.

          A national work stoppage has not been lifted, but enterprise vital to stability and objectives of regaining productivity are excepted and given daily evaluation to inform evolving protocols. For example, employees of enterprise related to food were excepted (risked) since the beginning to prevent panic hoarding. Social distancing and reduction of congregational exposure was immediately prioritized: Take-out orders only; Shopping only during the day.

          China's work stoppage and advisory quarantines across the

    • My mother in law is a teacher at a private that is on break this week. They told all the faculty to take home everything they needed to teach in case the school was closed next week for a few weeks. My sister is a teacher as well and they've mentioned virtual classes at her school, but she is a special needs teacher so not sure how that would work.

  • Calling future customers as "little brats" is a bit harsh.

    • I really doubt this was some concerted effort. They probably were just honestly rating their experience with the app as a substitute for the biggest control force the government had on their lives.

    • Naah, brats they are. But cunning brats. The species is tough. They give me hope: we and the will survive. Meanwhile in the UK we have people fighting in the arena for packs of toilet rolls. They will probably survive too, but I am less happy about that.

  • I aprooooooove! (Score:3)

    by SirAstral ( 1349985 ) on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:23AM (#59811422)

    This is hilarious stuff... way to go youngsters!

    yarghhh har harrrrrrrrrrrrr!

  • Caves of Steel.... (Score:3)

    by Jhon ( 241832 ) on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:30AM (#59811464) Homepage Journal

    Sounds like the dawn of Spacer culture...

  • Wow! Chinese kids, Way to go (Score:5, Insightful)

    by 140Mandak262Jamuna ( 970587 ) on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:23PM (#59812046) Journal
    The Chinese kids spontaneously coming together and working out a way to defeat a system they feel is unjust is extremely gratifying. This is the next generation of Chinese leaders and proletariat. These kids will game the social score system to death. If they can make this app get 1.5 stars, they will figure out a way to give every chinese citizen a 5 star social score.
    • Difference is the kids are reasonably sure that the government won't raid their home at night, send their family to a work camp, and execute them for rating an app 1 star. Taking a stand when you have nothing on the line is meaningless. What matters is whether or not you're willing to take a stand when it could cost you everything.
    • I think you might be reading too much into what is really just kids trying to get out of school.

  • Worth noting that this article is dated February 21st. It may or may not be representative of the situation today.

    • Good thing no one bothers to read articles anyway. We just like to discuss the summary and even that's only a precursor to our normal political bickering.

  • I don't think we should ever forget, downplay, or help cover up that fact. The virus came from a primitive, unsanitary, and inhumane "wet market" that shouldn't exist in the modern world, and spread because the Chinese government is a pack of corrupt liars.

    China's government could have shut down these markets, the same ones that caused previous outbreaks and pay poachers to slaughter endangered animals, but chose to protect them instead. They could have told the truth about what was happening so the re

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