title: Virus Outbreak: Mexico puts oil deal in doubt

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UNEXPECTED SETBACK:
 The central American nation was willing to reduce output by 100,000 barrels per day, far less than the 400,000 barrels per day proposed by OPEC+

A historic multilateral deal to lower global oil production and stabilize prices, led by record cuts from Saudi Arabia and Russia, is at risk as Mexico refuses to agree to the proposed curbs.

The impasse threw into doubt efforts to revive the market from a debilitating COVID-19-induced slump.

The deal by OPEC+, which dwarfs previous interventions and has been encouraged by US President Donald Trump, is also aimed at ending the price war between Riyadh and Moscow that helped pushed crude oil prices down to the lowest level in almost two decades.

A member of the Austrian Army stands next to the logo of OPEC in front of the organization’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday.
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The deal is conditional on the consent of Mexico, which was the only participant not to agree to the proposal, OPEC+ said in a statement released after more than nine hours of videoconference talks on Thursday.

The tentative deal would result in cuts of about 10 million barrels a day during next month and June. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the biggest producers in the group, would each take output down to about 8.5 million per day, with all members agreeing to cut supply by 23 percent, one delegate said.

The refusal by Mexican Secretary of Energy Rocio Nahle to accept the proposed cuts reflects her nation’s determination to keep as close as possible to the production and spending plans it has been pursuing, despite the price slump.

In a Twitter post shortly after leaving the meeting, she said the nation is ready to reduce output by 100,000 barrels per day, far less than the 400,000 barrels per day proposed by the group, and from a higher baseline.

Attention has turned to a meeting of G20 energy ministers yesterday, where nations outside OPEC+, including the US and Canada, could contribute as much as 5 million barrels per day of additional reductions.

The unexpected setback does not change the urgent need for OPEC to reduce production. Crude oil’s spectacular crash this year has threatened the stability of oil-dependent nations, forced major companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp to rein in spending and risked the existence of small independents.

“Mexico can and should join the international community in stabilizing the oil market,” said former Mexican deputy secretary of energy for hydrocarbons Aldo Flores-Quiroga, the who negotiated OPEC+ deals from 2016 to 2018. “The production cut is both necessary and possible. It’s the responsible thing to do domestically and internationally.”

OPEC+ has been put under intense pressure from Trump — who spoke with the leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia by telephone on Thursday — and US lawmakers, who fear thousands of job losses in the US shale industry.

“Both Saudi [Arabia] and Russia were going to have to cut anyway, and these cuts allow them to win political points, too,” Energy Aspects Ltd chief oil analyst Amrita Sen said.

While the headline cut equates to a reduction of about 10 percent of global supply, it makes up just a fraction of the demand loss, which some traders estimate at as much as 35 million barrels per day.

Crude oil prices have tumbled by half this year as the spread of the coronavirus coincided with a bitter price war that saw producers flood the market.

Brent crude on Thursday fell 4.1 percent to US$31.48 a barrel in London, even as the agreement began to take shape.

There was no trading yesterday in New York or London due to the Good Friday holiday.

“COVID-19 is an unseen beast that seems to be impacting everything in its path,” OPEC secretary-general Mohammad Barkindo said in a speech at the online gathering.

“The supply and demand fundamentals are horrifying,” and the expected oversupply, particularly in the second quarter, is “beyond anything we have seen before,” he said.

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Virus Outbreak: Wuhan maintains testing after lifting of restrictions

Wuhan, where the global COVID-19 pandemic began, is still testing residents regularly, despite relaxing a tough two-month lockdown, with China wary of a rebound in cases even as it sets its sights on normalizing the economy.

Concerns remain over an influx of infected patients from overseas, as well as China’s ability to detect asymptomatic patients, and Wuhan has tried to reassure the public that it remains vigilant.

Feng Jing, who runs a group of community workers looking after the Tanhualin neighborhood in Wuhan, yesterday said that during a government-run tour for journalists that they would continue to carry out extensive checks on residents.

A family wearing protective suits waits at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in China yesterday.
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“We carry out comprehensive heath checks every day and keep detailed records of their health condition,” she said, adding that there is no likelihood of asymptomatic cases in her community.

“Currently our neighborhood is an epidemic-free community — it’s been 45 days so far, so we don’t have this situation,” she said.

China yesterday reported a fall in new cases after leaders promised to accelerate the country’s economic recovery, boost domestic demand and put more people back to work.

China’s central government coronavirus task force, chaired by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (李克強), on Thursday said that it would speed up efforts to revive the economy, while simultaneously introducing targeted measures aimed at preventing infected people from entering the country.

China now needs to “actively create favorable conditions” to restore normality in the economy, it said, but added that there was still a risk of a rebound in cases.

In Shanghai, state media have also been deployed to dispel online rumors that the city has now become “the most dangerous place in the country” as thousands of people flood in from Wuhan, including many who are asymptomatic.

With the government now promising to deploy resources to tackle high-risk areas, much of the focus has shifted to Heilongjiang Province, which on Thursday reported 28 new imported cases crossing the border from Russia.

The province has so far found 154 cases of imported infections.

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title: It is now or never for global leadership on COVID-19

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We need a G20 task force to coordinate international support and a donors’ conference to fund global action to stop a health catastrophe

This week, leaders from medicine, economics, politics and civil society are uniting to demand immediate and coordinated international action in the next few days to mobilize the resources needed to address the COVID-19 crisis, prevent the current health catastrophe from becoming one of the worst in history and avert a global depression.

As a letter to the world’s leaders notes, because we are so far behind the COVID-19 curve, many lives are being lost needlessly, other health issues are being ignored, and societies and economies are being devastated.

During the global financial crisis of 2008, G20 leaders worked to coordinate a global response. And in other previous emergencies — such as tsunamis, civil wars, or epidemics — coalitions of countries have convened donor conferences to generate the necessary resources.

Today, we need both: a G20 task force to coordinate international support and a donors’ conference to make that support effective.

A decade ago, the immediate economic crisis could be surmounted when the undercapitalization of the global banking system was addressed. This time, the economic crisis will not end until the health emergency is addressed, and the health emergency will not end by addressing the disease in one country alone. It can end only when all countries recover from COVID-19 and it is prevented from returning on a regular basis.

All healthcare systems and societies — even the most sophisticated and richest — are buckling under the strain caused by the coronavirus. However, if we do nothing as it spreads in African, Asian, and Latin American cities and smaller communities — which have little testing equipment and fragile health systems, and where social distancing will be impossible to achieve — it will cause devastation, persist and perhaps inevitably fuel other outbreaks worldwide.

PUBLIC FUNDING

The only way we can end the crisis sooner rather than later is to do what we have omitted to do for years: fund the public health, scientific and economic agencies that stand between us and global disaster.

World leaders should immediately agree to an initial commitment of US$8 billion — US$1 billion for the WHO to continue its vital work this year, and the remainder to support the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to coordinate efforts to develop, manufacture and distribute effective diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. These advances, with equitable access for all countries, are vital if we are to end this pandemic and prevent future tragedies.

Funding must also be provided to meet the global need for ventilators and personal protective equipment. Rather than having each country, state, or province scramble for a share of output from existing capacity, with all the cost-inflationary competition that would bring, we should be vastly increasing capacity by coordinating the global production and procurement of such medical supplies. And, if a vaccine becomes available, sufficient funding must be allocated to deliver it, through existing organizations such as Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance to the poorest countries.

According to even the most optimistic estimates from Imperial College, London, there would be 900,000 deaths in Asia and 300,000 in Africa. Developing countries not only lack modern health systems; they also have wholly inadequate social safety nets.

At least US$35 billion is needed to provide vital medical supplies, recruit staff and strengthen national resilience.

And yet, despite the looming danger, almost 30 percent of countries have no COVID-19 national preparedness and response plans, according to the WHO, and only half have a national infection prevention and control program. Many lack adequate water, sanitation and hygiene standards in their healthcare facilities.

While it is estimated that richer countries would have only one-seventh of the hospital beds they need for critical care, poor countries would have far, far fewer, and many would have none at all.

FISCAL STIMULUS

National governments are also attempting to counter the downward slide in their economies. However, to prevent a liquidity crisis from turning into a solvency crisis, and today’s global recession from becoming tomorrow’s depression, better-coordinated fiscal, monetary and trade measures are urgently needed.

The fiscal stimulus packages now being implemented in some countries will be much more effective if all countries in a position to do so join in. However, if we are to limit mass redundancies (which are already occurring on a frightening scale), it is also vital that banks follow through rapidly on government loan guarantees and provide the cash support that companies and their workers need.

The poorest countries need special economic assistance. The international community should begin by waiving this year’s developing-country debt repayments, including US$44 billion due from Africa. But the reality is that at least US$150 billion in new funds will be needed to protect developing economies.

The World Bank can scale up country support while still meeting its lending ceiling — but that would not be enough. In 2009, during the Great Recession, World Bank spending went from US$16 billion to US$46 billion. A similar expansion of available resources should be guaranteed now.

The IMF has said it would mobilize all its available resources. It should allocate about US$500 billion to US$600 billion in Special Drawing Rights.

Time is short. Ideally, all this should be agreed and announced this week and be formally confirmed by the IMF and the World Bank Development Committee when they meet on Friday to Sunday next week. This might be the most viable exit strategy available to the world. If the price seems high, the consequences of not paying it could well be catastrophic.

Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, is the UN special envoy for global education and chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. Erik Berglof, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health.

Copyright: Project Syndicate

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Without Masters, Woods to battle son for green jacket

Tiger Woods should have been trying to keep his Masters green jacket out of the clutches of the world’s top golfers over the next four days, but instead he plans to battle his 11-year-old son Charlie for it over putting competitions.

The Masters — which Woods won in a magical fashion for a fifth time a year ago, claiming his first major since 2008 — has been postponed until November due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shut down world sports on an unprecedented scale.

Like his rivals, Tiger Woods, 44, has been trying to stay busy at home, as he waits for the day that the PGA Tour can restart.

While he has enjoyed the family time, including 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzles and cupcakes, Tiger Woods said that being “wired” to play, but not preparing for Augusta’s first tee has been difficult.

His local course — Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida — has remained open, but playing against Charlie has meant that he can sharpen his competitive instincts.

“We’ve been able to go out there and compete,” Tiger Woods said in an interview with Discovery-owned golf streaming service GOLFTV. “He’s got a lot better at throwing the needle at me now, and he’s accepting it faster and reversing it back. We have a deal: In the backyard generally every night, we’ll play putting matches and the winner gets to keep the green jacket in the closet.”

“Occasionally, it’s gone into his closet,” Tiger Woods said. “Primarily, it’s stayed in mine, but the fact he’s been able to earn it off me — because there are no wins that are given in this family. It’s been fun to see him tease me about beating me, and being able to wear the jacket and have it in his closet, where he says it belongs.”

As a defending champion, the build-up to the Masters is unique, and not being able to host the Champions Dinner, or enjoy the par-three event held the day before, has left a void.

Tiger Woods held instead an improvised Champions Dinner at home, with partner Erica Herman and children Charlie and Sam.

“We had exactly the same. We had steak and chicken pieces, sushi and sashimi,” he said. “We had cupcakes and milkshakes for dessert, so it was exactly what I was going to serve — as I said: ‘Masters Dinner quarantine style with my family.’ It got a little bit interesting at the end, a little ugly, where icing was flowing across people’s hair and faces. We had a little bit of fun at the end.”

However, joking aside, Tiger Woods said that the Masters postponement has been tough.

“This is not the way that I would’ve wanted to keep the jacket for a longer period of time,” he said. “I wanted to get out there, and compete for it and earn it again. I’m wired — I’ve been doing it for 25 years now, and so it’s hard to find the wire, those circuits now. I do feel a little edgy. I want to get there and play — I want to compete.”

“Fortunately, we potentially could have a Masters in November and play it then,” he said. “I guess I’ll be defending then and hopefully that all comes about.”

The long injury layoffs that have snagged his career have also helped him deal with the current situation he describes as “a war with an invisible enemy.”

“I’ve been through episodes like this in my career because of my back, where seconds seem like months — you have to slow things down and do things at a different pace,” he said. “I know it’s frustrating, it’s boring at times, but in the end we are trying to save lives, flatten the curve. It’s not a normal world. My dad used to say: ‘Take it one meal to the next’ — so you go at it until the next meal.”

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Virus Outbreak: Singapore to stop teachers using app over security issues

Singapore has suspended the use of videoconferencing tool Zoom by teachers, the Singaporean Ministry of Education said yesterday, after “very serious incidents” occurred in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.

One of the incidents involved obscene images appearing on screens and strange men making lewd comments during the streaming of a geography lesson with teenage girls, local media reports said.

Zoom Video Communications has been plagued with safety and privacy concerns about its conferencing app which has seen a surge in usage as offices and schools around the world shut to try curb COVID-19 infections.

“These are very serious incidents. [The ministry] is currently investigating both breaches and will lodge a police report if warranted,” Aaron Loh of the ministry’s educational technology division said without detailing the incidents.

“As a precautionary measure, our teachers will suspend their use of Zoom until these security issues are ironed out,” Loh said.

It would further advise teachers on security protocols, such as requiring secure logins and not sharing the meeting link beyond the students in the class, he said.

Taiwan and Germany have already put restrictions on Zoom’s use, while Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday banned the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops. The company also faces a class-action lawsuit.

Concerns have grown over its lack of end-to-end encryption of meeting sessions, routing of traffic through China and “zoombombing” when uninvited guests crash meetings.

To address security concerns, Zoom has embarked on a 90-day plan to bolster privacy and security issues, and has also tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser.

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title: EDITORIAL: Letting a wolf in the sheep pen

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Politicians and human rights advocates have expressed disappointment over the UN’s decision to appoint China to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council’s Consultative Group. The council monitors the human rights record of all member states, making observations and providing advice, and the consultative group is specifically tasked with evaluating candidates for UN posts that investigate human rights abuses.

China has been criticized for framing development issues from a state-centric perspective, which privileges the “sovereignty of states over groups of people and communities,” an article published on Wednesday by The Diplomat said.

The article said the council had received letters of support for and opposition to China’s camps for Uighurs in the Xinjiang region, suggesting that opposition in the world body to human rights abuses in China is being steamrollered by Beijing’s influence in some member countries. China’s appointment to the group will only exacerbate this problem.

“There is no justification whatsoever in empowering a Chinese government official, Jiang Duan [蔣端], to investigate human rights abuses until there is a reckoning with regard to China’s own record,” US Representative Chris Smith, a ranking member of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said in a news release.

“Passport holders of Taiwan, the 2nd freest country in Asia, cannot enter @UN buildings; but China, a country that corralled 1 million Muslims into concentration camps, gets to pick human rights investigators who will oversee abuses across the globe. Does this make sense?” Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ding-yu (王定宇) wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

“China was appointed on Wed to a UN Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators... You can’t make this up,” former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wrote on Twitter.

On July 9, 2015, Beijing initiated a crackdown on human rights lawyers, imprisoning many lawyers under charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” extracting forced televised confessions, denying family visitations and keeping the lawyers in inhumane conditions.

One of these lawyers, Wang Quanzhang (王全璋), 44, was released on Sunday last week, but then placed under house arrest at a family property separate from his wife and son, and denied visitation. The “release” appears to have been orchestrated as a show for international media. Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Amnesty International China researcher Doriane Lau (劉尹渭) as saying that Wang’s release offered “merely the illusion of freedom.”

Numerous human rights advocates remain in Chinese prisons, including Taiwanese Lee Ming-che (李明哲), who was sentenced by a Chinese court in 2017 to five years in prison. Lee was accused of cooperating with Chinese national Peng Yuhua (彭宇華) in disseminating articles critical of Beijing.

On Thursday, Chinese property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang (任志強), who has been critical of the Beijing government, was placed under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law.”

“Ren disappeared from the public eye last month, shortly after penning an essay that was fiercely critical of [Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平)] response to the COVID-19 outbreak,” an AFP report said.

The UN council’s membership includes countries where human rights abuses are known to have occurred, and the US and other nations have left the council in protest. The US this week threatened to cancel funding to the WHO, citing Chinese influence, but, as University of Hong Kong researchers Courtney Fung (馮康雲) and Lam Shing-hon have said, China will simply fill the vacuum left by countries that leave.

Taiwan, the US and other like-minded nations should seek to continue their roles in world health and human rights outside of UN organizations.

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The Canadian government on Thursday said that it had renegotiated the terms of a US$14 billion light armored vehicles contract with Saudi Arabia, paving the way for exports to recommence.

Vehicle sales had been on hold since 2018 due to tensions between Ottawa and Riyadh over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the war in Yemen.

The move marks a shift for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had indicated in December 2018 that he was looking to end the agreement.

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks at a news conference in Riga, Latvia, on March 2.
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However, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement that Canada had “been able to secure significant improvements to the contract.”

Canceling the deal “could have resulted in billions of dollars in damages to the government of Canada, with potential damages amounting to the full value of the contract,” Champagne said.

The move would have put thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, not only in “southwestern Ontario, but also across the entire defense industry supply chain, which includes hundreds of small and medium enterprises,” he said.

The vehicles are made in Canada by a subsidiary of US contractor General Dynamics.

Among the “improvements” were financial protections for Canada if it chooses to delay or deny export permits in the event the vehicles are not used for their stated purposes, Champagne said.

“Under our law, Canadian goods cannot be exported where there is a substantial risk that they would be used to commit or to facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law, international human rights law or serious acts of gender-based violence,” he said.

“We have now begun reviewing permit applications on a case-by-case basis,” Champagne said in the statement. “As always, we will ensure that they comply with the aforementioned legal requirements under Canadian law” and the UN Arms Trade Treaty, he said.

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title: Canada looks to reinstate arms deal with Saudi Arabia


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A : A long time ago, fire was forbidden on the Cold Food Festival: people would go for hikes and sweep the tombs. As the festival and Qingming were separated by only one day, the two customs merged together.

B : As well as the fresh spring rolls, the markets would sell traditional “red rice cakes” and herbal rice cakes. They are cold foods, too.

A : You only remember things about food!

A : 古時候寒食節不能生火，所以主要的活動是踏青跟掃墓，可是因為寒食跟清明往往只隔一天，所以習俗就混在一起了。

B : 除了潤餅以外，這幾天市場上還會賣「紅龜粿」和「草仔粿」，也算是冷食的一種吧。

A : 沒錯，但你的記憶都是跟吃的有關耶！

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Virus Outbreak: Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter

Church doors are to be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown.

Fear and confusion in the face of a disease whose toll has unrelentingly climbed toward 100,000 are reshaping society and transforming the way religion is observed.

Even such hallowed traditions as the pope’s messages to the faithful on Saint Peter’s Square are being replaced by livestreamed prayers that Francis reluctantly records from the seclusion of his private library.

The Vatican has been closed to visitors for a month and the 83-year-old pontiff — beloved for breaking stuffy customs and mingling with the people — has complained of feeling “caged.”

“We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity,” Francis said in an interview published by several Catholic newspapers this week.

“We can either get depressed and alienated ... or we can get creative,” he said.

The pope’s virtual prayers are just the starkest example of religious improvisation in the age of social distancing and confinement.

Others abound worldwide — from the archbishop of Panama blessing his nation from the air in a helicopter to the faithful in Spain blasting religious music from their balconies during Holy Week.

The scale of the unfolding tragedy has seen a New York City cathedral replace rows of wooden seats with hospital beds in case of overcrowding in surrounding emergency wards.

The powerful Catholic Church in the Philippines is urging the faithful not to kiss the cross and its Orthodox counterpart in Greece is planning to hold mass behind closed doors for its Easter on Sunday next week.

“Seven out of 10 Greeks enjoy roasting lamb for Easter,” Greek meat trader Angelos Asteriou said in Paris.

“That’s not happening this year,” Asteriou added.

Jews across the world did their best by using Zoom or other videoconferencing apps to “seder-in-place” when the eight-day Passover holiday began on Wednesday evening.

Westminster Abbey in London is following the technological trend by releasing Easter podcasts for the faithful of the Anglican Church.

Prince Charles — the heir to the British throne who was briefly quarantined last month after testing positive for COVID-19 — recorded a reading of the Gospel for Easter Sunday.

Priests at France’s Roman Catholic shrine in the southwestern town of Lourdes began relaying nine consecutive days of prayers on Sunday by Facebook Live and YouTube.

“Since the pilgrims can no longer come to us, we invite ourselves into their homes,” Sanctuary of Lourdes rector Olivier Ribadeau Dumas said.

The pope previously observed Holy Thursday service marking Christ’s last supper — most famously depicted by Leonardo da Vinci in a mural housed in Milan — by washing the feet of 12 inmates on the outskirts of Rome.

The virus has now made this impossible.

Francis instead said a prayer for the dozens of priests and health workers who have died across Italy while attending to the sick since the outbreak began in the Mediterranean country’s north in February.

“They are the saints next door, the priests who gave their lives by serving,” Francis said.

The Argentine-born pontiff has reportedly been tested twice for COVID-19 since coming down with a cold at the end of February.

He has enjoyed a life of good health despite losing part of a lung as a young man and suffering from sciatica — a nerve condition that causes pain in his hip.

Francis told Catholic newspapers that people across the world can try to spiritually escape their confinement through introspection.

“So: to be in lockdown, but yearning, with that memory that yearns and begets hope,” the pope said. “This is what will help us escape our confinement.”

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title: The East-West divide in COVID-19 control

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The public health response will be decisive in stopping the pandemic in the West — starting with the US and Europe learning from East Asia

East Asian nations are outperforming the US and Europe in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the outbreak began in China, to which the rest of East Asia is very closely bound by trade and travel. The US and Europe should be learning as rapidly as possible about the East Asian approaches, which could still save vast numbers of lives in the West and the rest of the world.

An important starting point for comparison is the number of confirmed cases and COVID-19 deaths per million population. It is as if the two regions are in different worlds.

Europe and the US are engulfed in the pandemic: confirmed cases per million range from 814 (UK) to 3,036 (Spain), and deaths per million range from 24 to 300. In the East Asian countries, confirmed cases per million range from three (Vietnam) to 253 (Singapore), and deaths per million from zero to four.

East Asian countries are not systematically undercounting either cases or deaths relative to their Western counterparts. Both regions have tested a similar proportion of their populations.

Importantly, the differences between the two regions do not reflect firmer economic lockdowns in East Asia. Google has recently published fascinating data on the reduction of activity in various sectors of the economy. The disruptions to normal life (comparing the end of last month with a baseline of Jan. 3 to Feb. 6) are less severe in East Asia.

The disparity between East Asian and Western countries’ public health and economic outcomes reflects three key differences between the regions. For starters, the East Asian countries were far better prepared for a new disease outbreak.

The 2003 SARS outbreak was a wake-up call, and frequent waves of dengue fever in several East Asian countries reinforced the message. In Europe and the US, concerns over SARS, Ebola, Zika and dengue fever seemed far away, abstract and — with the exception of SARS — mainly “tropical.”

The result of this greater awareness was a much higher national alert level throughout the region when China first publicly reported an unusual clutch of pneumonia cases in Wuhan on Dec. 31 last year.

In epidemic control, early action is crucial to containment. Starting in early January, most of China’s neighbors began to curtail travel with China and immediately stepped up testing and tracing operations. China and others have deployed new digital technologies for monitoring the spread of the disease.

Western countries were far less attentive to the novel coronavirus when it first appeared. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was in contact with China CDC’s on Jan. 3.

The first US case was confirmed on Jan. 20 — and yet it was not until Jan. 31 that US President Donald Trump announced travel restrictions with China. Even then, these vital restrictions were not taken seriously.

Recent estimates suggest that 430,000 people arrived in the US from China after the outbreak was disclosed, including about 40,000 after Trump’s so-called travel ban.

The East Asian public is also more aware of the proper precautions to take. Masks are widely used and have been at least since SARS. Western authorities, by contrast, told the public not to wear masks, partly to direct the limited supply of protective masks to health workers, and partly because officials underestimated masks’ benefits for reducing new infections.

Similarly, hand sanitizers, greater physical distancing and less frequent handshaking are all part of East Asians’ daily life.

Lastly, East Asian authorities have dramatically stepped up screening for symptoms as people move about in public areas, offices and other crowded places.

It is routine in many enterprises to screen all workers’ body temperature as they enter the workplace. Temperature monitoring is also used at transit hubs like airports and train stations. This practice is still almost non-existent in the US and Europe.

China’s outbreak was the worst in East Asia, and, in a way, the most instructive for the US and Europe. Unlike its neighbors, China experienced a full-fledged epidemic for several weeks, from the middle of December last year to the middle of January.

By the time China quarantined Wuhan on Jan. 23, there were already 375 confirmed cases in Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located, and probably many more unconfirmed cases (either symptomatic but untested cases or asymptomatic). The virus had also begun to spread across China, with an additional 196 confirmed cases.

At that stage, China took drastic action. It clamped down on all travel and movement in public; quickly implemented online systems to track individuals and enforce quarantine orders; and tested extensively and monitored massively for symptoms. The measures were undoubtedly very drastic and were widely criticized. Yet they were also remarkably effective.

China brought a full-fledged and rapidly spreading epidemic under control in just a few weeks — a feat many experts thought was impossible.

Many question whether China’s stringent controls can work or be acceptable in the US. Yet the US must learn from China’s success, and from East Asia’s success more generally.

As US National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins has cogently put it: “The approach we should be taking right now is one that most people would find to be too drastic because otherwise it is not drastic enough.”

Europe and the US do not yet have the epidemic under control, and shortages of life-saving ventilators and deaths of health workers lacking basic protective gear compound the tragedy.

The public health response will be decisive in stopping COVID-19 before it devastates entire populations in the West and around the world. And the right approach in the West requires that we learn what we can from East Asia as rapidly as possible.

Jeffrey Sachs, professor of sustainable development and health policy and management at Columbia University, is director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Copyright: Project Syndicate

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title: Barr says Russia probe was begun ‘without basis’

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The Russia investigation of US President Donald Trump was started without any basis and amounted to an effort to “sabotage the presidency,” US Attorney-General William Barr told Fox News Channel in an interview that aired on Thursday.

Barr, who has appointed attorney John Durham to scrutinize the origins of the Russia probe, said that the US Department of Justice has evidence that there was “something far more troubling” than just mistakes during the investigation that was eventually taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller.

“I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history,” Barr said in the interview with Laura Ingraham.

US Attorney-General William Barr attends an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington on April 1 last year.
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The FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia “without any basis,” Barr said.

“Even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president to sabotage the presidency,” he said.

Mueller concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election, but his investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The inspector general’s report identified significant problems with applications for warrants to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016 and 2017.

Department of Justice Inspector-General Michael Horowitz has said that the FBI failed to follow its own standards for accuracy and completeness in wiretap applications provided to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The report detailed 17 errors and omissions in the application process, including failing to tell the court when questions were raised about the reliability of some of the information it had presented to receive the warrants.

Those mistakes prompted internal changes within the FBI and spurred a congressional debate over whether the bureau’s surveillance tools should be reined in.

Barr said he believes that they were more than just mistakes.

“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,” he said. “There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

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VIRUS-WARY:
 Asked about North American leagues resuming play before a vaccine, 12 percent of respondents said they would only attend if there was social distancing

North America’s sports leagues might be itching to return to action, but 72 percent of respondents to a Seton Hall University poll said that they would not feel safe attending games until a COVID-19 vaccine is developed.

Asked what they would do if leagues resumed play before there was a vaccine, 12 percent of respondents to a poll that was released on Thursday said they would attend, but only if social distancing could be maintained, while only 13 percent said they would feel safe.

The poll, run by the Sharkey Institute within Seton Hall’s Stillman School of Business, was conducted from Monday to Wednesday with 762 respondents.

Over the past month, the pandemic has shut down world sports on an unprecedented scale.

“This virus has the attention and respect of the nation,” Seton Hall sports poll director Rick Gentile said. “Those who identify as sports fans, at all levels of interest, line up closely with the general population in regard to their own safety and that of the players.”

The NBA suspended its season on March 11 after a Utah Jazz player tested positive. This was quickly followed by the NHL, MLB and other sports postponing or canceling events.

While respondents said that they were in no rush to fill stadiums and arenas, they clearly miss sports, with 76 percent saying that they would watch broadcasts of the games with the same interest as before, while only 16 percent said that they would be less interested.

In what could be a worrying sign for the leagues, only 29 percent said that they very much missed having the opportunity to watch live sporting events.

Many of North America’s major leagues have been brainstorming scenarios that would help them to return to action as soon as possible — even considering playing games in empty stadiums before the coronavirus is completely under control.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday last week during a conference call told sports commissioners that he hoped leagues and competitions, suspended by the pandemic, would soon be back in action.

“I want fans back in the arenas,” Trump said later at a news briefing. “Whenever we are ready — as soon as we can, obviously.”

Trump also said he believes that the NFL season, which is due to begin in September, should start on time.

However, most Americans, according to the poll are not as enthusiastic, with only 6 percent of respondents saying that the NFL should start up as planned, while 70 percent said that the league should not begin play if social distancing still needs to be maintained.

As for the Tokyo Olympic Games, the year’s biggest sporting event, 84 percent of respondents said that the International Olympic Committee acted appropriately in postponing the Games until 2021, while only 14 percent said that it acted too quickly.

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title: No vaccine, no US fans in stands: poll


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Virus Outbreak: US unemployment to hit post-Depression record: economists

Economists expect the US to suffer its largest-ever contraction this quarter and the unemployment rate to soar to a post-Great Depression record, followed by a recovery that would be moderate and drawn out.

GDP is to plummet an annualized 25 percent from this month to June after a smaller setback in the first quarter, while the unemployment rate is to reach 12.6 percent, the highest since the 1940s, median forecasts in Bloomberg’s monthly survey of 69 economists showed.

That is dispiriting given a massive US government fiscal relief effort and Federal Reserve actions aimed at shoring up the financial system, as health experts urge social distancing to combat the spread of COVID-19.

San Antonio Food Bank volunteer Veronica Hernandez, wearing a mask and sunglasses, on Thursday organizes vehicles parking at Traders Village to get food from the bank. The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous strain on households and their food budgets across the city.
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The downturn looks likely to be deemed as the first recession since 2007 to 2009 by business-cycle arbiter the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

The second half of the year is to see a resumption of growth, the survey showed, although a snap-back is unlikely.

The Fed is expected to keep interest rates near zero until the first half of 2022.

“Even if the economy starts to reopen in mid-May, more than 20 million Americans will have lost their job, with the economy likely having contracted around 13 percent peak-to-trough, more than three times deeper than the global financial crisis,” ING Financial Markets chief international economist James Knightley wrote with his forecast submission.

“It will be a gradual reopening of the economy, so a return to ‘business as usual’ is many months away. Throw in crippling financial losses and a legacy of defaults and it means we estimate US economic output won’t return” to the peak late last year until mid-2022 at the earliest, Knightley said.

The Bloomberg survey was conducted from Friday last week until Thursday, when a report showed that another 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits, suggesting the unemployment rate is already approaching 15 percent.

A separate survey by the US National Association for Business Economics released yesterday showed similar projections for first-half GDP and average unemployment.


title: Rally champ Loeb tackles new hurdles in lockdown

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Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb said that he has no trouble finding ways to lift his spirits and pass the time under lockdown.

Dirt-biking through the kitchen, driving Formula One on a games console and embarrassing codriver Daniel Elena on social media are among the diversions that Frenchman Loeb has found under lockdown at his home in Switzerland.

Loeb last competed in the Monte Carlo rally in January, the opening round of the World Rally Championship.

France’s Sebastian Loeb drives his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC [RC1] during the shakedown of the Rally Chile in Talcahuano, Chile, on May 9 last year.
 Photo: EPA-EFE

Since then, with the season on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he has not been behind the wheel for his Hyundai team.

With time on his hands, Loeb has adopted new pursuits.

These include riding his dirt bike around his swimming pool, up the garden steps and through his kitchen.

The video has been seen more than 141,000 times on Instagram, giving a glimpse of how he passes his time when away from his chosen sport.

“I don’t do too much. A little bit of sport, PlayStation, I look after my daughter, a bit of trampoline and some dirt-biking at home,” Loeb said earlier this week.

As well as his biking video, fans have been following the banter between Loeb and teammate Elena on social media.

On Sunday, a well-toned Loeb posted photographs of him working out with the caption: “My [first] punishment for driving my bike in the house: 250 press-ups every day.”

A less buff Elena fired back a day later with photographs of himself matching Loeb’s efforts, saying: “The success of a team is its complementarity.”

Loeb denied that he was in competition with Elena.

“With ‘Danos,’ it’s not a challenge that I’ve started. It’s him who starts the challenges himself by doing the same thing as me,” he said. “It’s not always a success, but you have to make the effort to try.”

As well as interacting on social media, Loeb said that he has traded his rally car for a Formula One motor on a games console.

“It’s a bit of a change,” he said. “In rallying, it’s pure driving. We’re not in a peloton, so it’s a bit different. On the track, I think there’s more to gain from being on PlayStation, or whichever simulator. For me it passes the time.”

Loeb is contracted to compete in six rallies this season, which could restart in July, but the Frenchman has more questions than answers about the rest of the campaign.

“The next three legs have been postponed,” Loeb said. “Will they take place? Will we be out of the lockdown and will the situation stabilize, so activities can restart in three weeks? One month? Two months? I don’t know anything. I don’t think anyone does really. We’ll see — we’ll deal with it.”

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title: Virus Outbreak: Tokyo asks firms to close for a month

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BAD LEADERSHIP?
 Masayoshi Son joined critics of Shinzo Abe’s cautious approach to closing businesses, asking ‘why has Japan put its economy minister in charge?’

Metropolitan Tokyo yesterday asked some businesses to close and the ancient capital of Kyoto warned tourists to stay away as Japan battles a fast-spreading outbreak of the novel coronavirus, amid fears that the government’s measures are too little and too late.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said that she was targeting a range of businesses for shutdowns from today during a month-long emergency through May 6, after resolving a feud with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s team over the extent of the closures.

Koike had wanted to move sooner, but Abe has resisted measures likely to put greater pressure on an economy that is already tipped to fall into a recession, fueling concerns that the central government is putting business ahead of people’s lives.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks at a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo yesterday.
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“This will be tough on residents, but if we act swiftly, the pain will be short and the outbreak contained quickly,” Koike told a task force meeting yesterday.

Businesses including pachinko parlors and Internet cafes were being asked to close and restaurants to shorten their hours. Department stores, home furnishing centers and barber shops would be exempted, in a concession to the central government.

Abe on Tuesday declared an emergency for Tokyo and six prefectures, but the details and timing of how life would change in the capital were thrashed out in tense intergovernmental talks.

“I thought governors would get authority akin to a CEO but ... I feel more like a middle manager,” Koike told reporters, in a sign of frustration over central government pressure.

Abe’s move came after a jump in COVID-19 cases in Tokyo sparked concern that Japan was headed for the sort of explosive outbreak seen in many other countries.

The number of cases in Japan on Thursday rose to 5,548, with 108 deaths, Japan Broadcasting Corp said.

Tokyo accounted for 1,519 cases, heightening concerns about sluggish action.

Aichi Prefecture in Japan’s industrial heartland, home to automaker Toyota, yesterday declared its own state of emergency and has asked to be added to the government’s targeted regions.

Local media reported that Gifu Prefecture in central Japan was also poised to issue an emergency declaration and at least one other prefecture was set to do the same.

The governor of Kyoto Prefecture and the mayor of the ancient capital also asked to be included in the national emergency, and urged tourists to stay away from the city’s famous palaces, temples and gardens.

“I call on all people who love Kyoto and tourists from all over the world — until this situation is ended, to protect yourself and your families, please refrain from visiting Kyoto,” Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa told a news conference.

Critics have said that the Abe government’s cautious approach to business closures would undermine his goal to cut person-to-person contact by 80 percent to slow the spread of the pathogen.

Softbank Group CEO Masayoshi Son took to Twitter to question the government’s handling of the outbreak.

“Why has Japan put its economy minister in charge?” Son asked, comparing the Japanese government’s response to the leadership of US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.

Koike last month warned that Tokyo could face a full “lockdown” if infections surged, although Japanese law does not mandate penalties for residents who refuse to stay home or businesses that stay open.

Koike also said that businesses that met her requests to close would receive between ￥500,000 and ￥1 million (US$4,614 and US$9,227) from a fund set up by the metropolitan government.

Abe has rejected calls to compensate such businesses from the central government’s purse.

The coronavirus has pushed 51 Japanese companies into bankruptcy, with a spike in new cases seen this month, Tokyo Shoko Research said yesterday.

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A volunteer holds a placard to raise awareness about the coronavirus on a street during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, in Chennai, India on Wednesday.
印度政府為防堵武漢肺炎冠狀病毒而在全國實施封城之際，一名志工在清奈街頭手舉標語牌，以加強民眾對冠狀病毒之認識。攝於週三。
 Photo: AFP

圖片：法新社

A fire-damaged telecom tower, reported in local media as being a 5G network mast, stands in Birmingham, UK on Monday. Telecom masts that enable the next generation of wireless communication were set on fire in the UK in recent days, apparently by people motivated by a theory that the technology helps spread the coronavirus.
位於英國伯明罕、據當地媒體稱提供5G網路信號而被燒毀的電訊塔。攝於週一。英國近日發生多起5G電訊塔遭縱火事件，因有人認為提供新一代無線通訊服務的5G技術會助長冠狀病毒的傳播。
 Photo: Bloomberg

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men maintain social distancing, following the government’s measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, and pray in the Jewish quarter overlooking the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem’s Old City, on Tuesday. As a modern pandemic afflicts the globe, Israeli Jews are being forced to scale back or cancel beloved traditions and rituals marking the start of Passover, the holiday celebrating Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian bondage and referencing biblical plagues. Communal preparations have been canceled. Police are enforcing stay-at-home orders and a general lockdown on intercity travel through Friday morning.
數名猶太教超正統教派男子，週二在可俯瞰西牆〔又名哭牆〕的猶太區禱告，同時遵守政府規定保持社交距離，以避免冠狀病毒傳播。哭牆為猶太人在耶路撒冷舊城最神聖的禱告地點。在大流行病肆虐全球的當今，以色列的猶太人不得不取消其鍾愛的、為逾越節揭開序幕的傳統與儀式，或是縮小其規模。逾越節是慶祝猶太人脫離埃及奴役，且與聖經有記載的瘟疫有關。聖餐禮的預備已被取消。警方強制執行禁足令，並全面封鎖城市間之通行，直至週五早晨為止。
 Photo: AP

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The Eiffel Tower is pictured through rain drops on a car window in Paris during a lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus in France, on Monday.
在雨中透過車窗所見之巴黎艾菲爾鐵塔，攝於週一。法國正實施封城，以減緩武漢肺炎傳播。
 Photo: Reuters

圖片：路透

French chocolate maker Jean-Francois Pre displays Easter eggs shaped as coronavirus in his pastry shop ahead of Easter celebrations in Landivisiau, as the spread of COVID-19 continues in France on Wednesday.
武漢肺炎疫情仍在法國蔓延之際，巧克力師傅尚-馮索瓦‧普雷，在法國朗迪維肖舉行復活節慶祝活動前之週三，展示其糕餅店中的冠狀病毒形狀復活節彩蛋。
 Photo: Reuters

圖片：路透

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events: COVID-19 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

countries: 英國 以色列 印度 埃及 法國


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The lockdown might have left plenty of Britons ready to scale their walls in frustration, but runner John Griffin has put his pent-up energy to better use: by climbing the height of Mount Everest up his staircase.

It took Griffin four days to climb 41,000 steps at his three-story house in West Sussex, England, equivalent to the 8,850m that the world’s highest mountain measures.

His effort has so far raised ￡3,500 (US$4,366) for the Trussell Trust, a charity that supports more than 1,200 food banks.

John Griffin runs up the stairs at his home in West Sussex, England, on Thursday last week as part of his “indoor Everest” challenge.
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“As a result of the coronavirus panic, people have been stealing food [collected in supermarkets] and so this charity had its input of food effectively cut off,” the 53-year-old said.

Using a computer programmed by his neighbor to track his progress, he almost came unstuck on day three when his knee began to hurt, but he took his wife’s advice and taped frozen peas to it, which enabled him to push on, finally reaching the “summit” after 29 hours of “climbing.”

His family, including dog Houndslow, were waiting on the rooftop terrace when he ran up the stairs for the final time.

Unfortunately, due to social distancing, they were the only people there, Griffin said.

“Carb loading was absolutely essential,” he added. “I was probably burning about 6,500 calories per day.”

“[Now] I’m going to swim the English Channel in my bathtub,” he said, laughing.

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title: British runner ascends ‘indoor Everest’ on stair


title: Kicker possibly greatest of 2010s

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When it came time for the NFL to name its all-decade team for the 2010s, it was no surprise that Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker was a unanimous choice. One could argue that of all the players selected for the team, the best of the lot was Tucker.

However, people might quickly clarify that statement: No one would argue that they would rather have Tucker on their team than other unanimous picks, such as Tom Brady.

Was Tucker a better kicker in the 2010s than Brady was a quarterback, or Aaron Donald a defensive lineman? It is certainly not hyperbole to suggest that he is the greatest of all-time at his position.

Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, top, kicks a field goal against the Tennessee Titans in their NFL American Football Conference playoff game at the M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, on Jan. 11.
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After all Tucker is the most accurate kicker in the history of the NFL, one of eight NFL records that he owns. Tucker not only makes kicks, but he makes them when they matter.

That might well be why only Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning have earned more Player of the Month awards.

Even Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who has coached two elite kickers in Stephen Gostkowski and Adam Vinatieri, has gone on record to call Tucker the best player at his position.

Yet, there is that caveat: “at his position.” There is an element of damning with faint praise here. No matter how skilled he is at his craft, Tucker will always be “only” a kicker.

Kickers are a vital part of any NFL team, yet there are many who refuse to count them as “real football players.”

Part of the problem lies within the sport itself. Like an elite relief pitcher in baseball, kickers are only brought in when the situation calls for them.

While offensive and defensive players play together as a unit, a kicker comes into a game with all eyes on him.

Football briefly mutates into a radically different — and much less physical — game. That is the other thing, too. While they are vulnerable during kickoffs, kickers mostly have the luxury of avoiding the violence that defines the sport.

The life of a kicker in comparison to, for example, that of a running back is a relatively tranquil one: The pressure they face tends to be more of the internal variety.

Because of this, it’s easier to overlook just how talented kickers such as Tucker are.

NFL games and even seasons can come down to a single kick.

When a kicker misses in a key spot, there is usually nobody else to blame and their previous successes count for nothing.

It does not matter what kind of career the kicker has had up until that point, it only takes a handful of misses for a team to move on to another candidate.

As of right now, there are only two players who are in the Hall of Fame who were exclusively kickers during their careers: Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen.

Tucker is in a position to not just join them, but to solidify his position as the best kicker of all time.

This distinction should force people to mention his name when discussing all-time great players — even if he is “only” a kicker.

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title: Rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon dies at 95 in California

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Civil rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon, who was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California in 2008, has died at her San Francisco home. She was 95.

Lyon lived life with “joy and wonder,” said Kate Kendell, a friend and former executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Lyon and her wife, Del Martin, were activists and mentors long before there was a movement or community, Kendell said.

“Before cell phones they always had their phone number listed in the phone book in case any young or terrified LGBTQ person needed help or support and they fielded dozens of calls over the years,” she said.

Lyon died on Thursday of natural causes, she said.

Lyon was a journalist who met Martin while working at a magazine in Seattle. They moved to San Francisco in 1953. They cofounded with others the Daughters of Bilitis, a political and social organization.

California Governor Gavin Newsom referenced her death at his daily briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic, calling her one of his heroes.

Newsom was a newly elected mayor of San Francisco in 2004 when he challenged California’s marriage laws by issuing licenses to same-sex couples. His advisers suggested Lyon and Martin to be the public face of the movement.

They exchanged vows before a tiny group of city staff members and friends, reports said at the time.

Later that year, the California Supreme Court voided the unions before overturning the state’s ban on gay marriage in 2008. They wed again, among the first couples to do so in the state. Del Martin died weeks after their second wedding at age 87.

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title: Tips on surviving — even enjoying — life under lockdown

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Missing the pub? Invite friends to online cocktails. That’s just one tip from experts on how to make the most of enforced downtime

COCKTAIL HOUR

One of the nastier aspects of the pandemic is that it turns your friends and all that you do to show them affection — hug and kiss; share meals and drinks — into a deadly threat. And yet, in this appalling moment, we need our friends more than ever, and it is probably true that our immune systems do, too. Isolation is bad for a species addicted to social intercourse.

My solution has been to start a cocktail hour on a video conferencing site, sending one or two friends every day an invitation to drinks in front of their laptop (or phone) at a time when we might normally meet in a pub or at each other’s homes. It’s surprising what a difference it can make to a day of isolation, and to your spirits in general, to see your friends’ faces in the evening and hear them talk and laugh.

Shoppers examine fresh herbs while wearing masks at the Farmers Public Market in Oklahoma City last month. Why risk buying herbs at a market, when you can grow them at home?
 Photo: Reuters

The scale of COVID-19 and what it’s doing to us is very worrying, but an hour with different friends every evening really helps reduce anxiety, and of course you can make much more effort than I do — dress up, light candles, provide nibbles (crisps make too much noise).

Whatever joy is released when you see your pals in the flesh is also present in these video cocktails, and the beautiful thing is that for a small charge the host gets unlimited conference calls and guests pay nothing.

Clearly, this can be expanded to talking to neighbors you may not know very well, or people you believe are really suffering from enforced isolation and loneliness. It may even be a good way of meeting people.

Each participant might invite a person no one else knows. It’s certainly great for new mothers, book clubs, football supporters — anyone who is missing out on regular contact.

Despite the remoteness of the interaction and the occasional annoyances of the technology, I find that people really talk in the video cocktail hour. Maybe that has something to do with the ambiguity of the interaction — you are neither alone nor really in company. You are half-way between the two and perhaps that makes you more candid.

Sites I have used include Zoom, BlueJeans and Whypay? And my daughter has just introduced me to the Houseparty app.

— Henry Porter, novelist and Vanity Fair editor

GROW HERBS

I genuinely think gardening is what will keep us sane through this. It connects us with the outdoors and the gentle satisfaction of watching things grow brings a unique positivity. If you’ve no garden, there are plenty of ways to grow indoors.

You’ll need a sunny windowsill, inside or out. I always advise beginners to grow herbs. They’re easy and delicious — and when supermarket supplies are low they become increasingly worthwhile. The plastic trays that tomatoes and mushrooms come in will do — just make some holes in the bottom for drainage.

Fill with, ideally, peat-free multipurpose compost (most nurseries deliver and will be grateful for the custom). Parsley and basil rub along happily next to one another, but mint’s a bit of a thug and better in its own pot. You can also chuck in some salad leaf seeds: pea shoots, rocket and nasturtiums germinate quickly and are tasty at any point in their growing cycle. Sow according to packet instructions: you’ll need a fraction of what’s in the packet.

Keep the soil moist — an old spray bottle is perfect for this — before and after shoots appear. If you harvest no more than a third of the plant at a time, all should bounce back.

— Alice Vincent, urban gardening columnist and author

EXERCISE

We are creatures of habit in what we eat, when we work, what TV shows we watch. Right now, all those habits have been shoved out of the window.

There’s a lot of confusion, but this is an opportunity to create new habits. So what to try? What’s your new routine? It may be fluid and can change, but what do you want to try?

There’s lots of great online content available. Equinox’s Furthermore platform offers a variety of workouts, but search the web to find a trainer or teacher you like and trust. John Berardi, a nutritionist I work with, is often asked, “What’s the best vegetable to eat?” His answer is that it’s the vegetable you like and will eat regularly. Exercise is the same.

There is a run on home gym equipment right now, but dumbbells, ropes and other useful products are still available online. Choose what’s right for your space. I’ve just ordered some competition kettlebells because they’re something I really enjoy.

There’s copious anecdotal and scientific evidence showing how important fitness is for mental health: so during this very stressful time, it’s even more important. It also boosts the immune system.

But exercise isn’t just about health — it’s often a social activity, too. I’m using FaceTime more than ever before because I’m not having regular social contact. Work out with a friend on FaceTime or have an online dance party with your family. Last night I watched a band I like called Sofi Tukker DJ live on Instagram. That was a new experience. Find something like that and dance for half an hour and your cardio will be done.

— Justin Jacobs, manager, Equinox fitness clubs

PICKLING

In times of food scarcity and uncertainty, we have to make do with what we have. I haven’t been so much panic-buying — not having a car limits that — but I have been guiltily hoovering up scraps from the reduced cabinet late in the day, to save them being discarded. This week’s haul included three boxes of chestnut mushrooms, a withered bunch of wild garlic and a pile of French purple garlic, a little battered around the edges.

I will dry the mushrooms, peel and pickle the garlic cloves, and knock the wild garlic with some nuts into a sauce aillade. This will keep for a month past the sell-by date that consigned it to the bargain bin in the first place. Preserving food is not going to get us too far in a pandemic, admittedly, but pickling what we have now is an investment in future dinners. I am also pickling a slow cooker’s worth of dried white beans in oil and vinegar, to use until tinned ones come back into stock.

Sweet-sour cannellini beans

Makes a large jar

400g dried cannellini beans

a small onion

100g frozen peppers

80ml vinegar — red, white or cider

1 tbsp white sugar

100ml oil (any)

Soak the dried beans overnight and then rinse thoroughly. Drain and rinse your beans, then pop them in a pan of cold water. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 15 minutes then drain thoroughly then return to the pan.

Add the onions and peppers, along with the vinegar, sugar and oil.

Thoroughly clean and sterilize a large jar and its lid. Bring the pan to the boil very carefully. Do not take your eyes off it for a moment as you are dealing with hot oil, which poses a fire risk if unattended. As soon as bubbles start to form, remove it from the heat immediately.

Allow to cool for a minute, stirring well, then pour into the sterilized jar, filling it as full as possible. Turn the jar upside down and allow to cool completely before placing in the fridge. Resist sampling them for at least seven days, as the flavor will develop in this time. In a clean and sterile jar, these can keep for a few months unopened.

Once opened, use within a week.

— Jack Monroe, food writer and activist

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title: 大同3C黃金周滿千抽百萬獎 50型液晶顯示器萬元有找

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大同3C黃金周今（10）日開跑。至4月19日大同3C全台直營門市，除限時限量多款商品優惠外，消費滿1,000元即可獲得抽獎券1張，滿3,000元送4張、滿5,000元送6張。獎品總價值超過百萬，現開立即中獎。

此外，抽獎券可加碼再抽黃金條塊，市值破萬元的黃金條塊瑞士PAMP時尚金銀條塊系列-斑馬（5公克黃金條塊），無論增值或珍藏都相當適合。

大同3C表示，全台直營門市舉辦中的「黃金周 大同3C酬賓盛典」活動，活動期間消費滿額贈抽獎券，獎品包含國際變頻六門冰箱、大同70吋液晶顯示器、大同雙流新風機、夏普清淨除濕機、大同DC變頻元祖桌扇等超多大獎。

大同3C指出，最殺首選為大同50型液晶顯示器，直降5,000元，以萬元有找的優惠價來打開買氣；這款50型液晶顯示器（TA-V5000A），三年全機保固，黃金周限定超特價9,888元。

獨家BLF濾藍光技術，有效降低藍光傷害；杜比音效、包覆式音箱設計，放大聽覺感受層次，在家就能體驗如同個人劇院般的影音效果。

大同變頻洗脫烘滾筒洗衣機（TAW-R120DA），黃金周限定超特價19,900元，加贈BIALETTI多納泰羅32cm不沾導磁平底炒鍋，洗脫烘一小時完成，高溫洗淨可除蟎抗菌。

大同3C強調，購買大同指定空調好禮雙重送，搭配政府補助最高省4,600元。4月底止是空調早春優惠活動，是結束前最後入手機會。例如，大同晶采變頻冷專（R-362DDHN／FT-362DDSN），黃金周限定價33,900元，購買除享早春優惠好禮三選一外，另外加碼再送大同空氣清淨機，負離子清淨功能、紫外線燈有效殺菌及HEPA活性碳濾網。搭配節能補助（依各縣市公告為主）、貨物稅等政府補助，最高可以省下4,600元。

大同
 3C
 黃金周


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最新數據顯示，今年 Q1，用戶透過 App Store 和 Google Play 應用商店消費超過 234 億美元，創下新紀錄。iOS 占 150 億美元，Google Play 占 83 億美元。

Q1 用戶遊戲支出超過 167 億美元，同期相比上季增幅達 5%。其中 iOS 遊戲類應用軟體支出占總體支出 65%，Google Play 為 85%。

（Source：App Annie，下同）

報告指出，對 Google Play 來說，美國、日本和南韓是 2020 年第一季用戶支出的主要貢獻者。而 iOS 部分，中國是最大用戶支出市場，與 2019 年第四季相比增長 15%。

Google Play 方面，用戶本季在角色扮演類和策略類遊戲花費最多。iOS 市場，角色扮演類、動作類和策略類遊戲是增長幅度最大種類，策略類遊戲相較 2019 年第四季達最大幅度增長。

下載量方面，今年 Q1 新應用軟體下載量超過 310 億次，比 2019 年第四季增長 15%。遊戲類應用軟體占全部下載量 40%。行動遊戲的下載量持續增長，與 2019 年第四季相比，2020 年 3 月週均遊戲下載量增長 30%。

數據顯示，Google Play 遊戲下載量在 2020 年第一季達近 100 億次，同期相比增長 25%。iOS 新遊戲下載量達 30 億次，同期相比增長同樣達 25%。遊戲應用軟體占總體應用軟體下載量方面，Google Play 表現優於 iOS，兩者占比分別為 45% 和 35%。

Google Play 下載量最大市場是印度和巴西。在 iOS，中國和美國是下載量最大的 2 個市場，且是該季下載量增長的主要驅動力。從遊戲類別來看，益智類、模擬類和動作類下載量同期相比增長速度最快。

報告最後，App Annie 盤點 2020 年 Q1 熱門遊戲榜：

下載量榜單，《腦洞大師》（Brain Out）登頂，來自 Voodoo 的《超級木旋 3D 版─Woodturning》增長速度飛快，於 2019 年 12 月發表，一躍成為下載量排行榜第 3 名。類似機制的遊戲，如《Wood Shop》和《Soap Cutting》同樣於 2019 年底推出，且在第一季下載量也激增。

用戶支出榜單，《和平精英》名列第一，《劍與遠征》排名漲勢明顯，此外，去年 Q4 推出的《天堂 2》（Lineage 2）也迅速攀升至第 6 名。

（本文由 遊戲葡萄 授權轉載；首圖來源：Designed by Freepik）

title: 2020 年 Q1 全球手遊消費超過 234 億美元，創下新紀錄

taiwan-subdivisions: 和美 和平

countries: 美國 印度 中國 日本 巴西


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電信三雄中華電信、台灣大哥大、遠傳電信 10 日公告 109 年度 3 月營運成果，其中台灣大以 EPS 每股盈餘 0.37 元，勝過中華電的 0.35 元與遠傳的 0.22 元，蟬聯電信 EPS 冠軍寶座。

台灣大本期自結合併營收 105 億元、年增 5.8%，營業利益 14.2 億元，稅後淨利 10.5 億元，每股盈餘 0.37 元；第一季自結合併營收 318.5 億元、年增 6.6%，營業利益 44.8 億元，稅後淨利 33.1 億元，每股盈餘 1.18 元。

台灣大受惠於旗下 momo 富邦媒的電子商務持續表現亮眼，momo 網路購物營收年增 41.1%；電信業務方面，雲端服務、物聯網以及數據專線業務營收持續成長。獲利方面，第一季合併營業利益年增 6%；單季合併營收與營業利益已連續三季呈現年成長，第一季合併稅後淨利達成全年財測 30%。

中華電本期自結合併營收 155.8 億元、年減 9.4%，營業利益 34.2 億元，稅前淨利 35 億元，每股盈餘 0.35 元；累積 1-3 月自結合併營收 481.5 億元、年減 6.2%，營業利益 105.3 億元，稅前淨利 106.9 億元，每股盈餘 1.07 元。

與去年同期相比，中華電本期合併營收下滑主要由於手機銷貨收入、資通訊專標案營收、國際網路營收以及行動服務營收減少。相較第一季財測達成率，營業利益、稅前淨利以及每股盈餘達成率皆超過預期。

遠傳本期自結合併營收 63.4 億元、年減 9.6%，合併 EBITDA 23.6 億元，稅後淨利 7.3 億元，每股盈餘 0.22 元；累積 1-3 月自結合併營收 193.9 億元、年減 6.9%，合併 EBITDA 70 億元，稅後淨利 21.7 億元，每股盈餘 0.67 元。

遠傳行動通訊業務表現大致穩健，除了漫遊業務受疫情影響衰退；數位轉型效益顯現，受惠於政府、大型企業合作案，使 3 月新經濟營收穩定成長。由於手機供應鏈受武漢肺炎疫情影響出貨，連帶影響遠傳第一季整體營收，財測達成率為 97%；每股盈餘則超越財測目標，達成率為 103%。

（首圖來源：台灣大哥大）

title: 電信三雄財測達標，momo 電商助台灣大蟬聯電信獲利王


countries: 日本 英國

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「Google 藝術與文化」（Google Arts & Culture）的 App ，推出了一個新功能，使用起來非常簡單。

▲ Google Arts & Culture 應用的主介面。（Source：Google blog，下同）

打開 App 底部的「相機」按鈕，選擇「Art Transfer」，意思就是拍一張照片，然後將它轉換成經典作品的風格，這時候可以選擇拍照或者上傳照片，接著從數十種畫作裡選擇一幅作品的風格，比如梵谷自畫像的風格，馬上系統就開始運行，一邊執行還會一邊介紹作品的歷史，不用 10 秒，你的照片立刻變成梵谷風格的油畫。

▲ 傻瓜式的選擇藝術風格，照片即可變身。

如果不想整幅照片都應用，還可以用剪刀圖標選擇任何一部分來應用風格樣式。

製作完之後，可以點擊分享按鈕，這時可以靜態圖片方式分享，也可以動態 GIF 圖片方式，顯示變化前後不同的 2 張照片，呈現魔幻般的效果。

所有這些藝術畫作，都是由真正的美術館提供的，例如英國國家美術館和日本 MOA 藝術博物館。在 Google 藝術與文化 App 裡，蒐集了全球各地一流藝術館館藏的數位化作品，還可以進行線上展覽和 VR 遊覽。

新推出的「Art Transfer」，由 Google AI 創建的演算法模型提供支援，它有 2 個神奇之處，一是操作完全在手機上進行，無需藉助雲端或者線上處理圖像；二是它實現的不是疊加圖像，而是對照片進行特定藝術風格的演算法重現，這是目前最令人興奮的深度學習進展，即藝術風格的遷移，基於 2 個輸入圖像，創建新圖像，用 AI 生成仿作。

（Source：TensorFlow，下同）

如上圖所示，第 1 張是普通的照片，第 2 張是藝術風格的畫作，生成的照片將基於藝術風格進行重現。

使用此技術，我們可以生成各種風格的新作品。

美術作品是人類創造出的獨特視覺體驗，圖像的內容和風格之間有著複雜的組合，很難用演算法來表達創作過程，但是可以採取類似物體辨識和臉部辨識的深度神經網路技術，重新分離和重組任何圖像的內容和樣式，再用神經網路演算法仿照出藝術作品來。

目前這個原始碼已經被放入 Google 的 TensorFlow Lite 的框架中，做為「藝術風格遷移」模型，在 GitHub 上開源，可以很方便地將模型應用到自己的 App 中。

同時，還可以使用不同的參數來重新訓練模型，例如，增加內容層的權重，使得輸出圖像看起來更像內容圖像。TensorFlow 的官方網站上詳細介紹了使用模型的方法。

有了這麼方便的模型和工具，任何人都可以創作出類似 Google 這樣的應用和工具了。

▲ 最近很紅的 AI Gahaku 網站 。（Source：AI Gahaku）

日本一位剛剛學習程式設計的前端工程師，最近就開發了一個很紅的應用程式：AI Gahaku，連 App 都不用安裝，直接點開網頁，可以把個人頭像生成一幅文藝復興時期的繪畫。短短時間，網站的獨立用戶訪問量居然達到了 100 萬人。

（本文由 雷鋒網 授權轉載；首圖來源：Google blog）

title: 來張文藝復興風格的藝術照？Google 讓你把任何照片秒變大師作品


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任天堂 Switch 新遊戲《集合啦！動物森友會》暴紅，一開賣就創下 Switch 軟體銷售最快紀錄，連台灣口罩地圖開發者、「好想工作室」創辦人吳展瑋（Howard）也加入動森行列，還為此寫了一個 side project（編外專案）：「在線等！動森揪團工具」。

由於《動森》的內容是由用戶自己決定島名，種菜、工作賺錢來購買素材和道具來布置房子，不同島主也可以透過社群軟體彼此邀請、比較各自的小島、買賣物品，但不管是揪摸家具、找菜價，或是邀請其他玩家都很「厚工」：要監看排隊名單、配發密碼、即時溝通、通告訊息等，常常搞得玩家手忙腳亂，就激發了吳展瑋撰寫線上等揪團的工具。

於是，4 月 2 日「在線等！動森揪團」就出現 Beta 版，4 月 6 日 正式上線，不到一週使用者已超過 2 萬 2 千人，網頁瀏覽量超過 10 萬，以一個 side project 來說相當不錯。

現在進入工具頁面後，每個人都可以開一個揪團的房間，像是「收 DIY 機票 代工特大熊」、「大頭菜」，等待有興趣的玩家加入，就能在房間內即時傳訊息，方便玩家邀請、揪團。吳展瑋笑說，其實他對《動森》並沒有很入迷，反而是寫 side project 比較入迷，都寫到沒時間種大頭菜了。

一經推出，引發玩家興奮暴動：「口罩國家隊神隊友連這個也寫！」「根本就是虛擬世界的跨島貿易平台！」吳展瑋表示，這個不會像口罩地圖那樣燒錢（超商口罩地圖剛開始 Google 圖資使用費向他收費 2 萬美元），縱使不放廣告也應該沒太大壓力，而且玩家很支持，所以他正在申請第三方支付的收款方式，只是需要一些時間申請。

（本文由 財訊 授權轉載；首圖來源：Flickr/charming meiler CC BY 2.0）

延伸閱讀：

國外玩家很會玩，把《動物森友會》玩成恐怖遊戲了
3 天賣出 188 萬套，《動物森友會》比《寶可夢》新作還熱銷
防疫只能待在家裡，《動物森友會》成為玩家的「避難所」
武漢肺炎帶動「巢籠消費」，任天堂等遊戲股飆漲

title: 《動森》暴紅！口罩神隊友也為它開發線上揪團工具


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除了極紫外光（EUV）微影、3D 封裝，台積電還有哪些延續「摩爾定律」的絕招？看一個登上《自然》的材料研發成果，如何替台積電取得 3 奈米以下製程的發展優勢。

今年 1 月，三星高調宣布已成功開發 3 奈米晶片製程，就在三星叫陣的同時，台積電反將一軍，直接從材料領域關鍵環節大步超前。

頂尖學術期刊《自然》（Nature）3 月刊物，一篇由台積電與交通大學成員合作發表的文章，揭露「晶圓級單層單晶氮化硼」生產技術，這是台積電技術研究處團隊與交通大學特聘教授張文豪的重要研發結晶，不僅領先全球，更能有效提升 3 奈米以下晶片效能。

這一篇期刊文章刊出後，廣受半導體界關注，主要原因在於，全球科學家已面臨傳統半導體材料的物理瓶頸，突破瓶頸的方法之一，就是利用二維材料解決電子傳輸干擾問題，這個集結化學、物理、電子三大領域人才研發出來的結果，巧妙地成為台積電在先進製程上的優勢。

登上《自然》期刊受矚，突破半導體材料的物理瓶頸
台積電技術研究處處長李連忠說，這項研究計畫是要解決製程微縮後出現的電子干擾難題，能有幸刊登在《自然》上，靠的是團隊實驗精神，找出過去未曾發現的新理論。

研究的起點，在於 2017 年底李連忠離開學界，加入台積電主持技術研究部門的那一刻。

「我比較實際，不做太理論的東西。」原本在中研院鑽研材料領域的李連忠，加入台積電後，便著手研究新材料。第一步，就是找上有多年交情的張文豪，「他（張文豪）本來是做物理的，他說我讓他轉變了領域。」

過去，張文豪專注研究光譜分析材料中的電子行為，與李連忠所熱中的新材料研發，是兩個不同的專業領域。既然兩者專業不同，為什麼找上張文豪？

「他（李連忠）那時離開中研院，我就接手他的研究。」張文豪說，當時李連忠也交給他一批化學氣相沉積（CVD）設備，這讓交通大學開始有了生產二維材料的能力。

正是生產二維材料的能力，讓李連忠進入台積電開啟相關研究後，回頭找上張文豪。「二維材料有一個好處，它是平面的、非常平整。」李連忠說，二維材料的特性能避免上下端其他材料干擾、確保電子傳輸效率，這對奈米尺度的電晶體效能表現極為重要。

談起二維材料，一般大眾相當陌生，不過，早在 2010 年就有一個二維材料備受關注，就是獲得該年度諾貝爾物理學獎的「石墨烯」。石墨烯強度是鋼的兩百倍，卻和橡膠一樣柔韌，導熱、導電效率皆高。

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巧合的是，社會記者出身的資深媒體人陳揮文，昨晚也在直播節目中回應了這問題，他說一般來講30多歲的小姐已是「北風北」，其實很多都轉幹部了，「但是你要倒過來想說，如果她30幾歲她還有辦法坐檯，那就表示她的這個顏質、外表、身材、歌聲，或是她的手腕、社交、交際能力可能是一流的，不然她沒有辦法30幾歲還在坐檯。」

陳揮文說去酒店的客人百百種，有人連小姐的手都不碰，只是純唱歌的客人大有人在，所以不要以為去酒店都是想要性交易的，也有小姐堅持不做S，但憑良心講這種小姐很少，「為什麼？我剛跟你解釋她的檯費是她的收入之一，可是光靠檯費，你不用去酒店啦，第一你日夜顛倒，第二你喝得半死，第三個這些客人生張熟魏，你以為這樣很好玩嗎？其實一點都不好玩。」

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陸媒報導，針對疫情的影響，余承東表示，對任何公司都是挑戰，而海外的疫情持續時間會比大陸長，到年底都會有很大的影響，華為將力拚今年的銷量不下滑，並在大中華地區大幅成長。

針對市場傳聞華為手機庫存嚴重，余承東反駁：「說庫存那是胡扯。」，稱華為手機沒有庫存，而是嚴重缺貨，春節期間的生產受到了疫情的影響，天天都在打電話催貨。缺貨缺的一塌糊塗，有庫存反而賺了。

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（中央社記者黃旭昇新北10日電）新北市新莊區壽山路今天傍晚發生死亡車禍，李姓女子騎機車下山時，在轉彎處跨越分向線，撞上對向車道的黑色轎車，又碰撞後方的白轎車。女子重傷經送醫不治，肇事原因將調查。

市府消防局表示，10日傍晚5時15分許接獲交通事故救護案件報案，前往新莊區壽山路救護時，31歲的李姓女傷患已經無呼吸、心跳等生命跡象，送醫急救後仍不治。

新莊警分局表示，初步調查，李女在車禍發生時，騎機車沿壽山路下山行駛，期間因跨越分向線，先與壽山路往林口上山方向的黑色轎車左前方發生碰撞摔倒。

李女再與黑色轎車後方的白色轎車左前保險桿發生碰撞。女傷患頭部重創送往林口長庚醫院急救。兩名汽車駕駛並未受傷。

警方說，初判車禍肇因為機車女騎士跨越分向限制線行駛，導致車禍死亡。不過，真正肇事原因將進一步調查確認。（編輯：張佑之）1090410

journalist: 中央社記者黃旭昇新北10日電

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title: 新北女騎士下山跨越分向線 連撞兩轎車身亡 | 社會


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（中央社記者張茗喧台北10日電）WHO否認台灣曾警告武漢肺炎可能人傳人，指揮中心晚間回擊「WHO斷章取義」，台灣雖未明確說出「會人傳人」，但強調非典型肺炎特性且病患均隔離治療，已強烈暗示人傳人可能。

武漢肺炎疫情全球大流行，中美兩國為了病毒發源地爭論不休，美國國務院發言人歐塔加斯（Morgan Ortagus）日前向中國嗆聲，強調台灣在12月31日便試圖警告世界衛生組織（WHO）武漢肺炎（2019冠狀病毒疾病，COVID-19）可能人傳人，但中國卻直到1月20日都還否認疫情已發展為人傳人。

WHO繼秘書長譚德塞指控台灣對他歧視侮辱後，今天又宣稱並未忽視台灣對武漢肺炎疫情的示警，辯稱當時台灣的電郵並沒有提到「人傳人」的危險。

指揮中心發言人莊人祥今天晚間接受中央社記者電訪時表示，「這是被WHO斷章取義」，WHO並未揭露台灣通報的完整內容。疾管署去年12月31日透過社群媒體得知中國武漢發生至少7例非典型肺炎病例，中國向來習慣將SARS（嚴重急性呼吸道症候群）稱為「非典型肺炎」，SARS本身就是一種由冠狀病毒引起的嚴重人傳人疾病。

莊人祥說，看到這項訊息後，疾管署基於SARS的防疫經驗，對這項疫情訊息相當警惕，因此12月31日立即以電子郵件通報WHO國際衛生條例的聯繫窗口，要求提供更多有關疫情的訊息。

莊人祥指出，由於當時疫情資訊不明朗，各種傳聞不斷，雖未在電郵中明確說出「疫情會人傳人」，但有特別提及非典型肺炎的特性，以及中國的病患均隔離治療，強烈暗示病例有人傳人的可能性，以利世衛高度警覺，尤其疫情爆發時，中國正值有大量人流移動的春節期間，更需要警戒；但事後僅收到WHO回信稱：「已將資訊轉給專家同仁」。

因疫情源自中國，疾管署除聯繫WHO，也同時聯繫中國疾病預防控制中心，希望取得更多資訊，中方僅提供一則國家衛生健康委員會的新聞稿。

莊人祥說，台灣當時強烈懷疑此疫情有人傳人現象，但中國、世衛組織都無法透過既有管道釐清，因此12月31日當晚6時立即召開記者會，針對當天即將抵台的武漢直航班機進行登機檢疫，就是基於疫情有人傳人可能性的前提下進行的防疫措施。

莊人祥表示，1月中旬台灣派專家到武漢了解疫情狀況、防疫作為以及病患暴露史，驚覺當地早已出現群聚事件，也正是那一次才讓外界才了解到，疫情早已出現所謂「有限度人傳人」。

有關電郵的部分，莊人祥說，明天可能會在指揮中心記者會公布。（編輯：王思捷）1090410

journalist: 中央社記者張茗喧台北10日電

countries: 台灣 美國 中國

events: COVID-19 武漢肺炎 冠狀病毒

title: WHO否認台灣曾提人傳人 指揮中心：斷章取義 | 生活 | 重點新聞


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（中央社日內瓦10日綜合外電報導）世界衛生組織遭指控，在中國去年底爆發武漢肺炎疫情後，對台灣提出病毒能人傳人的警告置之不理。但世衛今天否認這項說法，宣稱台灣所發電郵未提人傳人一事。

法新社報導，世界衛生組織（WHO）遭美國指控「政治擺第一」，忽視台灣去年12月底的警告，藉以協助北京隱匿2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，俗稱武漢肺炎）的疫情嚴重性。

美方昨天指出，世衛2020年1月14日發表聲明稱，相關病毒沒有人傳人跡象，這種隱瞞台灣所提供資訊的作法令人深感不安。

但總部設在瑞士日內瓦的世衛組織今天寄發電郵給法新社，否認此一指控。

世衛表示，去年12月31日收到台灣所發電郵，內容提及媒體報導，武漢有非典型肺炎病例；而武漢當局認為，這不是嚴重急性呼吸道症候群（SARS）。SARS在2002與2003年曾奪走全球774人性命。

世衛組織堅稱：「這封電郵沒有提到人與人之間的傳染。」

世衛組織並說，已要求台灣當局說明，曾以何種方式「告訴我們」他們對病毒傳播的懷疑，「但我們沒有收到回應」。

「據我們所知，台灣僅發出上述一封電子郵件，其中並未提及人傳人現象。」

世衛秘書長譚德塞（Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus）呼籲全球領袖「別把病毒政治化」，聯合國秘書長古特瑞斯（Antonio Guterres）也表達支持，還說現在不是批評「重要組織」的時候。

世衛組織與台灣的關係在疫情爆發前就已陷入緊張，過去3個月更加惡化。（譯者：楊昭彥、陳彥鈞/核稿：張佑之）1090410

journalist: 譯者：楊昭彥、陳彥鈞/核稿：張佑之

countries: 台灣 中國 美國 瑞士

events: 武漢肺炎 冠狀病毒 COVID-19 發電

title: 世衛否認台灣曾警告武漢肺炎會人傳人 | 生活


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記者劉宛欣／綜合報導

南韓人氣團體HIGHLIGHT隊長尹斗俊在2018年8月入伍，粉絲在經過長時間的等待，終於在10日退伍，並且立刻就開了直播與粉絲互動，透露了近期的工作計劃，表示「很感激也很感概，還在想這是不是在作夢」。

▲尹斗俊為HIGHLIGHT首位退伍成員。（圖／翻攝HIGHLIGHT IG）

據悉，因為新冠肺炎的關係，南韓軍方為防疫調整了部分規定，因此尹斗俊在放完年假後，便直接退伍，無須再回歸部隊。他在10日開啟直播與粉絲互動，說道：「因為到今天為止還是軍人身份，已經有向部隊取得許可，所以開了V Live，想對爽快允許、並且祝福我退伍的部隊相關人員們說聲感謝。」

▲尹斗俊開直播與粉絲開心互動。（圖／翻攝V Live）

期間有粉絲留言稱讚尹斗俊頭髮可愛，他也笑著回應道「頭髮可愛吧？我現在看畫面也覺得非常可愛」。此外他向粉絲分享了近日的心境以及未來演藝工作的計劃，透露會發行SOLO曲，也預計在7月生日時舉辦粉絲見面會，但會視疫情狀況進行調整。

journalist: 劉宛欣

title: 國民男友尹斗俊退伍了！　直播被粉絲讚「頭髮很萌」：我看也覺得可愛


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▲「戈爾什科夫元帥級」護衛艦（Admiral Gorshkov 22350型）。（圖／翻攝自環球網）

記者林彥臣／綜合報導

俄羅斯最新護衛艦「戈爾什科夫元帥級」護衛艦（Admiral Gorshkov 22350型）正是在黑海部署，艦上還搭載了鋯石（Zircon）巡弋飛彈、「口徑」（Kalibr）巡弋飛彈等主要武裝，俄羅斯前腳才完成黑海的部署，美軍的RC-135W偵察機馬上到。

根據俄羅斯媒體《消息報》報導，國防部消息人士指出，已經做出了在黑海艦隊中部署22350型護衛艦的初步決定，為了容納這些船隻，黑海艦隊基地將預先配備沿海基礎設施，包括軍港和軍火庫等等。

軍事專家指出，黑海艦隊將充分發揮地緣政治的作用，因為新的護衛艦將大幅提升海軍的能力，但最重要的是，它們的出現將從根本上改變該地區的軍事結盟，護衛艦的巡弋飛彈，將能夠瞄準羅馬尼亞的美國基地，這將使其成為黑海地區的強大威懾力量。得益於獨特的區域防空系統，船隻將在地中海（例如敘利亞沿海）必不可少。

▲「鋯石」反艦導彈。（圖／翻攝自推特@NavyLookout）

據了解，22350型護衛艦的設計秉持高度創新的原則，具備了至少30%的新科技和元素，艦體設計新穎簡潔，隱身程度高；採用單煙囪設計，只配置一個大型的封閉式塔狀桅桿，並採用封閉式主桅桿，桅桿上部整合四面固定式相控陣雷達天線，是俄羅斯最新開發的多功能防空相控陣雷達，四面5P-20K陣列天線組成的塗金膠料（Poliment）雷達系統，採用C波段操作，最多能同時追蹤400個空中目標與50個水面目標。

另外，22350型護衛艦的最高速度 29 節，續航距離 4000 海里以上（14 節），可載乘員180到210人，以及艦載機卡-27 反潛直升機。武器包括1座 A-192M 130mm艦炮；32單元 3K96「多面堡」防空導彈垂發系統（32-128枚9M96、9M96D、9M100導彈的各種組合）；16單元 3R14 通用垂直發射系統（P-800「縞瑪瑙」超音速反艦導彈，3M-54亞/超雙速反艦型，3M-14對陸攻擊型，91RT超音速反潛型彈）；2座「佩刀」近迫防衛系統以及2具「紙包-NK」4聯裝330mm反魚雷/反潛魚雷發射器。

▲美軍偵察機RC-135W。（圖／取自免費圖庫pixabay）

根據《自由時報》報導，許多紀錄航空軌跡的推特，都指出美國空軍RC-135W偵察機、美國海軍P-8A海上巡邏機等軍機近來多次繞飛黑海海域，其目標不言自明。

►酒精乾洗手特惠組！～防疫殺菌神器來囉～

journalist: 林彥臣

countries: 羅馬尼亞 敘利亞 海地 美國 俄羅斯

title: 俄最新「戈爾什科夫元帥級」護衛艦部署黑海　美軍RC-135W偵察機馬上到


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▲世界衛生組織秘書長譚德塞指控台灣對他人身攻擊和歧視。（資料照／達志影像／美聯社）

記者王致凱／綜合報導

美國近日批評世界衛生組織「政治化」，無視台灣去年底就曾就疫情風險對世衛的示警；世界衛生組織（WHO）則反駁，當時台灣發送的電子郵件中並未提到有「人傳人」風險。對此，中央流行疫情指揮中心回應反擊WHO「斷章取義」。

根據法新社報導，美國9日公開表示，世界衛生組織2020年1月14日公開宣稱新冠病毒疫情沒有人傳人跡象，顯示台灣的通報被排除在全球公衛系統之外，美方對此深感不安。美國總統川普更揚言，將會凍結金援世衛組織。

世衛組織10日以電郵向法新社回應，否認美方指控。世衛表示，2019年12月31日收到台灣的電郵時，內容只提到武漢地區爆發非典型肺炎，而武漢當局認為並非SARS，但「沒有提到人傳人」。

世衛還說，已經要求台灣當局表明，台灣是「如何向我們傳達他們對傳染性的疑慮」，並堅稱「我們只知道有這封電子郵件，內容沒有提到人與人之間互相傳播。」世衛聲稱，至今仍未收到台灣當局答覆。

法新社指出，台灣與世衛組織的關係早在疫情爆發前就已緊張，但過去三個月以來又進一步惡化。批評者認為，世衛組織秘書長譚德塞（Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus）太過偏向北京當局。

譚德塞先前呼籲各國領袖「勿將疫情政治化」；聯合國秘書長古特瑞斯（Antonio Guterres）也支持譚德塞的說法，稱「現在不是批評的時候」。

對此，中央流行疫情指揮中心反擊WHO斷章取義。中央社報導，指揮中心發言人莊人祥表示，疾管署去年12月31日得知武漢發生至少7例「非典型肺炎病例」後，由於中國習慣將SARS稱為「非典型肺炎」，而SARS本身就是一種由冠狀病毒引起的人傳人疾病。疾管署基於SARS防疫經驗，立刻於當天以電子郵件通報WHO聯繫窗口。

▼疾管署長周志浩、副署長羅一鈞、莊人祥，12月31日傍晚召開記者會說明防疫因應做為。（圖／記者洪巧藍攝）

莊人祥說，由於當時疫情資訊尚未明朗，雖未在電郵中明確說出「疫情會人傳人」，但有特別提及非典型肺炎的特性，以及中國患者均隔離治療等，已經強烈暗示有人傳人風險。

莊人祥表示，由於疫情爆發時正值春節期間，有大量人口流動，特別需要警戒，因此通報世衛應高度警覺，但事後僅收到回信稱，「已將資訊轉給專家同仁」。

他說，台灣當時強烈懷疑疫情有人傳人可能，但世衛與中國疾病預防控制中心，都無法透過既有管道釐清，因此當晚6時便召開記者會，針對當天即將抵台的武漢直航班機進行檢疫，就是基於有「人傳人可能性」而進行的防疫措施。至於該封電郵，指揮中心考慮11日在記者會上公布。

►酒精乾洗手特惠組！～防疫殺菌神器來囉～

▼疾管署1月份就已派人向旅客進行衛教宣導。（圖／疾管署提供）

journalist: 王致凱

events: 新冠病毒 冠狀病毒

title: 「無視台灣警告」！　世衛反駁：電郵裡沒寫「人傳人」


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▲79、83、90期等3個重劃區，面積大小很適合三井開發。（圖／翻攝自高雄市地政局網站）

記者陳建宇／高雄報導

日商三井不動產今天到高雄拜會高雄市長韓國瑜，看好高雄未來發展，希望能將投資觸角延伸到高雄，並表示將比照台中的投資規模，房地產業界人士指出，若要比照台中5.4萬坪土地規模，三井最有可能的投資地點仍是在亞洲新灣區，特別是夢時代旁的79、83、90期重劃區，面積大小也非常適合。

日商三井不動產董事長兼總經理下町一朗今天到高雄拜會高雄市長韓國瑜，表達欲投資高雄的想法，韓國瑜也指示經發局、都發局以及地政局組成專案小組，協助後續相關作業，希望為高雄城市轉型注入新思考，帶來新商機。

下町一朗表示，投資高雄的第一站，將會比照台中的投資規模，並先尋找大型商業設施的開發投資機會。當時三井租用台灣港務公司5.4萬坪的土地，投資金額達25億元，對照高雄，哪裡有這樣大面積的土地呢？

▲三井進軍高雄，將採複製台中三井的模式進行。（圖／業者提供）

目前看來，最有可能的區段仍是亞洲新灣區，高雄市房屋市場調查協會理事長廖致傑表示，在目前高雄要找到5萬坪以上的土地，亞洲新灣區應該還是首選，畢竟這裡同樣也有港務公司的土地，此外如台肥、台塑、統一、中石化都有土地。另外，緊鄰夢時代購物中心的第79、83和90期等3個重劃區，可用建地近22公頃，換算面積約6.6萬坪，也能符合三井OUTLET的需求。

不過三井的投資計劃處於剛起步的階段，屋比房屋總監陳傑鳴表示，目前三井只是表達了開發意願，確切的形式都還未確定，加上北高雄仍有許多重劃區土地，因此要推估三井的投資落腳何處，可能需要計畫更明確之後才會明朗。

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▼ 日商三井不動產集團拜會高雄市長韓國瑜 。（圖／記者翁進忠攝）

journalist: 陳建宇

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 高雄市

title: 三井進軍高雄有望　比照台中投資規模！專家直指一區機會高 | ETtoday房產雲


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記者蕭雅玲／台北報導

哈孝遠日前帶著老婆瑄瑄上台視《綜藝3國智》錄影擔任守關人，錄影前一天哈孝遠還在眉毛上動了手腳，被眼尖的夥伴們一眼看出來，直笑說眉毛變得很奇怪，沒想到一旁的老婆瑄瑄爆料：「他交代不要講昨天有去紋眉這件事」，全場立刻大笑。

▲哈孝遠日前跟老婆瑄瑄一起出外景。（圖／台視提供）

哈孝遠馬上澄清是「霧眉」，不過因為剛做完霧眉還有些不自然，讓張立東直笑說：「我看根本是『誤』眉吧，真的是個錯誤。」隨後瑄瑄拿著一條繩子準備闖關，張立東又虧哈孝遠：「好像在牽豬公」，瑄瑄趕緊跳出來為老公說話：「你們不要這樣子對他，每次回家他都很受傷，說今天又被笑。」

其他人聽了不以為然，哈孝遠平時在節目裡形象有如漫畫人物「胖虎」，動不動就對同伴出手，納豆表示：「那是在討拍啦，他平常講我們才難過吧！連『身體』都難過了。」

journalist: 蕭雅玲

title: 哈孝遠臉上「動手腳」　老婆瑄瑄鬆口：他昨天去紋眉


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記者李湘文／綜合報導

美國舞台劇演員派蒂穆琳（Patti Murin）自爆疑似感染新冠肺炎！她在百老匯演出《冰雪奇緣》安娜一角，9日突發文感慨「即使是迪士尼公主也會生病」，透露近日開始發燒、感到非常疲累，尤其頭痛到像要裂開一樣，被醫生視訊判斷應是新冠肺炎，但無法接受檢測，現在只能憑自己的力量康復，還得照顧好7月即將出世的寶寶。

▲派蒂在《冰雪奇緣》舞台劇中飾演安娜。（圖／翻攝自派蒂穆琳Instagram）

派蒂無奈表示，雖然醫生判定是新冠肺炎，但除非她開始有嚴重的呼吸困難問題，否則沒有辦法得到篩檢機會。不過，她轉念一想，能篩檢出確切結果固然很好，但也不想為了滿足自己的需求，就帶著病毒走進醫院、傳染給其他人，所以還是決定乖乖待在家裡，多睡覺、多喝水、吃成藥來對抗病毒。

▲派蒂目前懷孕約7個月。（圖／翻攝自派蒂穆琳Instagram）

派蒂現在連笑都會導致咳嗽，但身為一位孕婦，還是努力保持樂觀的心情，照顧好自己和肚子裡的女兒，「這個病毒無法穿越胎盤，所以現在我的子宮對小胚胎來說就是最安全的地方。我好好的吃飯、喝掉世上所有的水，而她幾乎每個小時都會踢我，讓我知道她一天天變得更強壯。」

▲派蒂在老公陪伴下，正努力對抗病情。（圖／翻攝自派蒂穆琳Instagram）

所幸，派蒂得到親友滿滿的愛和幫助，尤其老公科林唐納（Colin Donnell）極富耐心又有拍醫療劇的經歷，在這段時間成為她最好的夥伴。她自認已經相當幸運，呼籲大家多關心那些條件沒這麼好的病患，也不要忘記感謝那些還在維持社會運作的工作者、醫護人員、商店服務人員和外送員，「現在的世界很瘋狂，但它不會永遠這樣。」

journalist: 李湘文

title: 《冰雪奇緣》女星懷孕7個月疑染疫！　發燒、頭痛在家自救「睡覺吃成藥」


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▲疫情嚴重影響許多人的生計。（示意圖／pixabay）

圖文／CTWANT

中央流行疫情指揮中心9日下令，全國酒店和舞廳全面停止營業，消息一出，業者哀鴻遍野，擔心將面臨無薪假、失業的窘境。而除了酒店遭殃外，經常在林森北路酒店附近販賣口香糖為生的「口香糖伯伯」，政府9日晚間聯合稽查時，他獨自坐在酒店門口，神情相當落寞，非常擔心未來的房租和生活費，考慮到附近錢櫃販售。

根據《聯合報》報導，這名60歲的郭姓男子在中山區林森北路、錦州街酒店林立一帶販賣口香糖，他中年時曾開設印刷廠，不過當時沒有好好存錢，還借了親戚一大堆債務，之後印刷廠倒閉，錢也沒拿回來。他曾換過好幾個工作，但都做不久，後來才和母親一起賣口香糖維生，生意好的時候一個月可以有2萬左右的收入。

不過現在酒店暫停營業，讓他相當煩惱，之後每個月1萬多元的房租以及生活費不知道從何而來，只能「剉咧等」，考慮轉移到附近的錢櫃販售，希望不要連錢櫃都暫停營業，否則他真的很難生存。

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▲永和樂華夜市自治會舉牌提醒大家要戴口罩。（圖／記者黃士原攝）

記者黃士原／新北報導

為防止潛在傳染鏈威脅國內防疫安全，中央流行疫情指揮中心宣布，夜市、傳統市場及商圈管制，除了攤商及消費者應全程佩戴口罩，記者10日晚上直擊新北市永和樂華夜市多數民眾都佩戴口罩，僅零星幾位民眾沒有戴口罩。

永和樂華夜市自治會副總幹事林順正表示，配合政府政策，樂華夜市自治會不定時會請人舉著「公共場所請戴口罩」與「保持社交距離」的牌子來回走動，不過他們也只能勸導，並沒有強制力，他就說傍晚時請民眾戴起口罩就被罵「神經病」。

▲多數民眾逛樂華夜市都佩戴口罩。（圖／記者黃士原攝）

另外，中央流行疫情指揮中心也指出夜市及寺廟等，4月10日起人流管制，並且提出總量管制計畫。不過記者發現，以往週末的樂華夜市是擠滿了人潮，一遇到排隊攤位就是寸步難行，但受到疫情影響人潮大減超過5成，多數攤位只有老闆們，僅少數人氣攤位還有人排隊，其中一個販售手機殼攤位一整晚上營業額只有100元。

▲以往星期五晚上的樂華夜市是不可能出現這種空景。

journalist: 黃士原

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 新北市 永和

title: 直擊新北樂華夜市！多數民眾都佩戴口罩　自治會還舉牌提醒


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2020年1月中旬，中國官方開始向外公布感染武漢肺炎的人數，世界各地的人懷疑要在數字後加幾個零才是真實。武漢城外的人摸不透真實疫情，城內身在其中的人又如何？ 在武漢市居住的內地社工郭晶鐵定地說：「我覺得幾乎沒有人相信（官方的感染數字）吧！」

率先揭發武漢肺炎的李文亮醫生及其他醫護被指造謠、 官媒只在讚好等、到近來官方指感染數字歸零，郭晶向眾新聞說： 「大家都會懷疑，這個歸零會不會為了一些政治， 後來前幾天有人說，無症狀感染的人不算在裡面， 有很多現實是不透明、不公開，我覺得大家都會有一些疑惑。」 身處武漢，也是一隻迷途羔羊。

《武漢封城日記》近日出版，作者是29歲內地社工郭晶。

29歲的郭晶是內地社工，是「074職場女性法律熱線」 的發起人之一，專門為求職和工作中遭受歧視、 性騷擾的女性提供資訊和法律支援。她老家在河南， 2016年到廣州居住，去年11月隻身搬到武漢為法律熱線工作， 怎料到了當地2個多月，就遇上肺炎及前所未見的封城， 武漢方言她還未聽懂。

1月23日，武漢市宣布封城， 郭晶當天早上8點多起床，睜開雙眼，打開手機， 就彈出朋友傳來封城的訊息。封城對大家都很陌生， 郭晶也同樣陷入慌張，驚惶失措下， 只顧聽朋友的勸籲趕緊囤積食物、日用品。 原本她沒有出門意欲，然而打開雜貨外送應用程式， 發現都已經不提供即時送貨，不安感湧上心頭。

她於是戴上口罩，穿了鞋子，加快腳步到超級市埸。 她居住的武昌區，平日交通方便、人流多， 但當天街上霎時變得蕭條，幾乎看不到途人及車， 去到超市才重見人群在排隊買東面，她也趕緊撿些米、 麵條等最能充饑又能收藏的食物加入隊伍。

封城會持續多久、裡面的人怎麼辦？當時沒人曉得， 未知的不確定性帶來恐懼。武漢裡有些人拼命地逃， 開着私家車奔馳，火車站水泄不通， 猶如想抓緊漫漫大海中最後一塊浮木；然而， 郭晶自覺沒有離開的本錢，沒有人脈網絡幫助， 即使搭上車也不知道會否半路上被遣返，決定留下。 惆悵中的郭晶，於是執筆寫下日記，記錄封城所見所聞和感受， 放上個人微博帳號。

1月23日封城實施之日，也是郭晶開始寫日記的首天， 自此她日復日每天寫然後放上微博。

1月23日官方宣佈封城，郭晶馬上到超級市場買食物， 當時已有人搶購。受訪者提供

郭晶公開日記，對她而言不是易事， 總覺得個人感受赤裸裸曝露於人前，但她仍堅持， 因為自覺有一分社會責任，「那天開始封城，當時就覺得， 從來未有想過會發生類似的事情，我有一定的寫作能力， 也是一直很關心社會議題，覺得這個記錄也是一種社會責任， 作為一個社會工作者，我處於這樣的時期，寫作成為一個特權， 能夠讓別人去了解或是關注事件。」

城外的人進不了來，城內景況人人好奇， 郭晶的日記成為探視的渠道， 漸漸儲了一群忠實讀者每天追看，同時吸引了台灣出版社的青睞， 把封城以來至3月1日的日記結集成書《武漢封城日記》出版。

郭晶每篇日記約長2000字，收錄的事件挺隨心：出外的所見所聞、工作上的事情、疫情下的反思、個人心情變化、 和朋友的閒聊等，都是她的靈感來源。然而， 作為一個關心社會的社工，她筆下記錄的小人物、 反思或多或少揭示社會上的問題，見微知著。

封城期間，郭晶每天維持規律的生活。8點多起床，在家中做約半小時的運動，之後就會工作、寫日記，社工工作上有些計劃要擱置， 但還會有人在線上求助，因此她負責的工作還要繼續跟進。 封城初期，她幾乎每天都會出外逛逛， 特地跟疫情下還在工作的清潔工人、外賣員、超市收銀員聊天，希望了解他們的工作情況、保障等，「 因為他們在這個社會，是比較邊緣的人。」

她遇到一位清潔大姐，其丈夫、兒子、媳婦也是清潔工人， 每人一天的人工只有70多塊人民幣，不工作則要扣150塊，「他們的生活沒有保障，沒有收入生活不下去， 他們沒有不工作的權利，有人可以擔心病毒就不工作， 但是他們不可以。」郭晶說，清潔大姐一家沒能力買口罩， 清潔公司也不會派發很多口罩， 還有更多基層工人只是用布和圍巾把口和鼻蓋着就算。

清潔工人在武漢沒人的街道上打掃。郭晶在封城之初，到街上了解他們的工作情況。受訪者提供

郭晶很記得有一天，在市政府門口看到一個女人站在外面， 大喊說要見領導，說自己20年來經歷的不公， 郭晶沒辦法聽懂那女人的武漢話，但是疫情也無阻她在門口等。郭晶不禁駐足看了幾分鐘，然而，一直沒人理會那女人，她如同透明的空氣。郭晶淡淡地說：「 一個普通人沒有影響力的時候，很容易被忽視。」

郭晶表示，1月底、2月， 很多疑似感染的病人都無法進醫院得到治療，只好在網上求助， 靠義工幫他們四出張羅，反映他們的需要。她遇到一個大叔， 他父親有慢性病，每個月要去醫院拿處方藥， 但當時公共交通停駛，安排不到車，出門近乎不可能； 還有一則接一則觸目驚心的新聞，揭示多人在家裡死亡都沒人發現。她沒有親眼目睹因疫情死亡的人，但網上流傳的新聞、訊息，根據她個人對社會的了解，覺得不是造假，加上有時官方會回應事件，她認為，這也是間接承認，「就是一個社會悲劇，覺得傷心，也覺得特別荒謬，但是社會就是容許這樣的事情發生，可能在這個時間發生更多悲劇，可是他們根本沒有互聯網沒人知道， 我當然也有憤怒，覺得這樣不可以再發生。」

郭晶說，那些都是沒資源的老百姓，疫情下更顯他們的無助。「 我沒有任何體制內的資源和人脈，如果我生病， 必然跟很多普通人一樣無法得到救治。因此， 我的目標之一是盡量不讓自己生病，我要堅持鍛煉。」 她在日記寫道，提醒自己。在病情下，她也就是一個普通人， 也會成為被忽視的一群，惟有靠自己維持健康才最可靠。

2月中旬，郭晶居住的小區實施限制出外措施，小區出入的門口被封了一半。受訪者提供

到了2月中旬，郭晶居住的小區（指住宅區）實施限制出外措施， 每隔三天才可以出外一次，每次需拿出入證。 她未能夠再每天出門跟基層工人聊天。想要舒展筋骨，只可到樓下繞個圈。買菜、日用品也要靠小區的團購送貨，通常每次訂購只有套餐，你要吃一款菜，就要順道買另一種瓜。「有人覺得封鎖小區是為了控制疫情，可我更加覺得是控制人。」

郭晶在日記表露她的不樂意，「終於我們都被指定監視居住了。 指定監視一般是針對犯罪嫌疑人的，而現在很多人都在享受此待遇。」她所居住小區的聊天群組， 有人呼籲住客不要常常在小區閒晃，免得傳染病毒。 每次官方發出的「無疫情小區名單」總會引起街坊一番討論， 追問表上為何未見他們的小區，到最後，被認定「無疫情小區」 人們就放心下來。

縱然疫情在中國大陸看似有好轉迹象， 郭晶覺得市民還需要一段時間才可走出陰霾，「人民生活有好大的影響，有很多人失業，面臨經濟的困難交不起房租，怎樣回復生活也有很多擔憂。有些地方開始復工，但復工也有很多困難，譬如有些湖北人出去工作之後又不許回小區， 或者不許進公司，遇到歧視；之前失去親人的人現在哀悼， 但是有人去領骨灰都要有社區的人陪同，這也是一種監控。」

得悉李文亮醫生病逝的消息當日，郭晶的手機滿滿是李文亮的消息，有人特意佩戴寫着「不明白」的口罩拍照， 諷刺李文亮在官方的告誡書中要說「明白」，郭晶一直忍不住哭泣， 淚流多了，累了就倒頭大睡，「這是一個荒謬。」還有艾芬醫生， 同樣因為在疫情前期告誡病情的嚴重性而受限制， 艾芬醫生的人物專訪談及她是發哨子的人，刊登後，引起廣泛關注。

不斷躍升的感染數字令人擔憂， 荒謬的事件如潮水般湧來更添無力感。訪問中， 郭晶說得最多的詞語是「荒謬」，她甚至在日記中問：「我要怎麼在如此荒誕的社會生存呢？」 輕輕的文字突顯沉重的無力感。郭晶指，市民都知道李文亮醫生、 艾芬醫生，但是終究這些都是體制內的問題，她明白要改變很難，但很高興看到民眾，最起碼試圖發聲尋求改變。

郭晶有感李文亮醫生的離世，令民眾試圖發聲。資料圖片

郭晶說：「李文亮醫生這件事引起了很大的憤怒，確實也有無奈，他付出了生命的代價，市民也希望追究，希望政府去調查。」 最後當局把責任歸咎於當地公安，「 當然也有人對這個結果不滿的地方， 但其實這也是民眾表達不滿的一個結果，如果沒有人講話， 這個事情就更加差，人民也不斷嘗試去問責， 希望受到不公平對待的人，得到相應的認可。」

艾芬醫生的人物專訪遭刪除， 網友則用不同方法把文章儲存成其他檔案，再不斷轉發，避開網絡管控。郭晶在日記形容：「人們轉發的不再是文章本身， 而是在表達情緒，有對審查的憤怒，有對發哨人的敬佩， 有堅持發聲的不屈。」

郭晶提到，有人說疫情過去，人們就很快會忘記， 不是忘記疫情帶來的後果，這創傷沒有人可以輕易忘記。她擔心的是， 社會不能因為這場疫情有所改善， 下次發生類似災難的時候依然沒有完備的體系，依舊會有人作出無謂的犧牲。

李文亮醫生離世後一個月， 郭晶翻看李文亮在2月1日一則公告自己確診肺炎的微博帖子 ，看到有人至今仍在留言，有的祝願他家人平安， 有的告訴他艾芬醫生的專訪被刪，郭晶看得淚留滿面，「 我覺得人民不會輕易忘記。」她再次因為李文亮醫生流淚， 但今次少了份傷心，多一份感動。

郭晶為李文亮醫生，流了不少眼淚。受訪者提供

封城期間，中國作家方方同樣每天撰寫封城日記上載至網絡， 但經常被刪除文章，甚至有人在網絡對她人身攻擊， 及向警方檢舉她。郭晶未有如同方方般受網絡攻擊， 或被人帶去談話。惟她的日記偶爾會被刪除及限制觀看流量，她只好把日記變成圖片發布， 試圖避開監視。

有次她的日記發了三、四次，不是發不出來，就是被刪掉，她想放棄， 但有素未謀面的讀者跟她說日記看不到， 她頓時有動力堅持下去。「我覺得堅持表達非常重要， 很多人不再在微博上發聲，可能因為網絡攻擊，可能因為封鎖， 但是不發聲就是放棄了。表達聲音很重要， 令人看到有人在堅持表達。」發聲是她一直堅持的信念： 早於2014年，她當時求職時因職位「僅限男性」而遭拒絕， 後來告上法庭，打贏了中國第一個就業性別歧視的官司。

郭晶不是一個高調的人，本來社交帳號也甚少更新，惟她覺得有必要在社交平台表達聲音，才不時轉發文章，表達個人感受。出書的決定，也是她覺得可以藉此發聲、 連繫別人的渠道，「書裡面有日常生活，也有反思的部分， 希望人們看完有更多的啟發，希望在過程中傳遞力量。 雖然我自己也有很多複雜的感受，有過恐慌、也有過無力、 也有很多憤怒，但我也嘗試繼續堅持日常的生活， 和對社會的信念和行動，實現個人價值，希望對其他人也有啟發： 我們在任何情況下也可以嘗試，去找到自己的力量。」

countries: 中國 台灣

events: 死亡 性騷擾 武漢肺炎

title: 眾新聞 | 內地社工記錄武漢封城　反思如何在荒誕社會生存：民眾試圖發聲求變


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飛行傘 體驗 +伯朗咖啡城堡躲雨
自從之前的沖繩行，在知念岬看到很多人在飛飛行傘，就很想試試看，想不到原來台灣也能飛呢就在 外澳 也能做 飛行傘 體驗！有這次的行程是因為在FB上看到朋友發文說兒子去玩了之後自已也很想去，我就留言說>走丫！想飛就去吧~~結果，就有這次的行程了...

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這天到外澳時下著雨，所以先到伯朗咖啡躲雨(離飛行傘據點約200M距離)，不過躲雨過程很擔心雨下不停飛不了，又擔心可以飛了還沒吃完，所兩個人都不想點東西吃。

幸好，雨在十一點左右停了，陽光還稍稍的露了一下臉，所以，我們終於要飛啦~~~~YA！！

朋友先飛~準備中...

準備起飛，後方的工作人員會把傘拉起來

傘立起來了，聽到工作人員喊~~跑跑跑~~~

換我了~~~YA~~

↓↓↓飛行影片↓↓↓

飛在天空中看風景的感覺真的很棒，雖然說這天天氣並不是很好，不過感覺像飛兒在空中飛，看到海浪一捲一捲的到岸邊的感覺，真的好神奇，這次飛行的過程在我的錄影時間總共是四分多鐘(每次飛行的時間不一定喔！要看風的情況)

吃完飯之後能看見藍天了！

不過風也大了，所以往回走到飛行傘的據點時，都在收傘了！要下班了因為飛不了了。
所以說不是好天氣就能飛呀！我們這天有飛到真是好幸運~

再看一眼美麗的海景然後說再見囉！這天很滿足了

外澳飛行傘基地FB點這裡
另外在屏東也有飛行場可以飛>賽嘉飛行傘FB點這裡
再連結一下我在沖繩知念岬看到的飛行傘>知念岬旅行日記點這裡

預訂宜蘭頭城沖浪體驗：KLOOK、KKDAY
預訂宜蘭龜山島登島賞鯨：KLOOK、KKDAY

還好下雨的時候可以在這裡聊天躲雨，這裡也很適合拍照。

不過一度雨下的好大呀！

飛完飛行傘之後我們回到這兒吃飯，吃飽之後雨也不在下了，有些陽光出來，我們走到最上層的露台(這個樓梯很有FULL呢)

往下看真的蠻漂亮的！

風天大難拍照，來個側臉好了，看不見最美~~哈哈(感謝同行美女提供照片)

交通資訊
從台北去宜蘭的交通很方便，搭國光客運的1877號(在頭城站下車)，終點站是烏石港(客運資訊：圓山->烏石港 | 烏石港->圓山)，與飛行傘業者約好時間來接駁，所以不用開車也可以很方便的到達目的地。

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countries: 阿聯 台灣 卡達

taiwan-subdivisions: 宜蘭 屏東 龜山 頭城

title: 外澳飛行傘體驗+伯朗咖啡城堡躲雨．宜蘭-說走就走．Erica的旅行筆記-欣傳媒旅遊頻道