Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. "Fewer tanks than Switzerland; fewer naval ships than The Netherlands" That is an astonishing statement!
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  2. Hello from Shanghai. My community went under lockdown starting Apr.30 afternoon. We're now on day 13. In my community, we can walk around outside, but not leave the community. Covid testing every 48 hours. Things are obviously tight. No restaurants or shops do deliveries. Community groups are being set up to try and order basic necessities. We have to do this, because you can only order in bulk due to the lack of delivery personnel. Yesterday, we ordered 1800 eggs to be delivered, the minimum order the seller would accept. This all happens on WeChat chat-groups. We've received two hand-outs from government of basic foods: Carrots, onions, some rice, some frozen chicken. It's enough to keep you alive, but that's it. I'm slowly running out of drinking water (tap water is not great), cooking oil, and Western food items like butter, coffee, milk, cheese, cream, etc. Forget about snacks and candy, or condiments. I still have some spaghetti, but no tomatoes, some flour for bread making, but nothing to put on it. Apparently, we still have at least 14 days to go of this....
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  3. This was a great segment from BBC! On the scene, with real people, no questions about 'how do you feel' but showing a real process of practical asylum with some optimism and hope in all the chaos and despair. Great report!
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  4.  @northboy7996  Yes, but if I test positive, it gets even worse: Forced removal to a quarantine center, bleak cells with bare walls, a lightbulb in the ceiling, bland food. At home I at least have internet so I can watch some YouTube.
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  5. Fascinating! Primarily, this documentary made me want to go to Argentina, sit in one of their cozy cafes, watch people walking by, and just contemplate life.
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  6. I've only been in lockdown 17 days, but I understand how you feel. Like you, my worst fear is to test positive. The whole thing is insane! 220,000 cases in Shanghai now. Only 4.4% have any symptoms at all. The rest don't even know they got infected. According to Xinhua News, only 9 people in Shanghai are seriously ill. No deaths. At least let those without symptoms quarantine at home.
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  7.  @tommacintyre8489  or space-
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  8. Finland is part of our Nordic brotherhood and we'd like to keep it that way. Greetings from Denmark
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  9.  @cannabistalk4164  "Amazing what happens without slavery". Shouldn't be that amazing to you, since we have lived in an age free from slavery for the last 150 years. What happens can be seen all around you. What happened WITH slavery, however, is harder to know. We only have history to help us.
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  10. It's not that are hoping to find human-like creatures, we're just hoping to find the smallest, simplest, little bacteria. Of all the possible environments in space, only a tiny amount would even be able to support that.
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  11. Generally, China has really ramped up security around kindergartens and primary schools in recent years, with high fences, gates, ID check, security guards. But it is probably impossible to guard against every scenario, especially if the perpetrator attacks right outside the main gate.
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  12. Nobody is at fault here. It just turns out that the Taliban is a popular movement that no army could hold back, no matter how long we tried. Now we can only lean back and observe what the next 20 years will bring Afghanistan under a different regime. Best wishes to the people of Afghanistan.
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  13. Hello from Shanghai. Of the roughly 220,000 cases in the city so far this month, 95.6% have no symptoms at all. They have no idea they're infected until they get the test results back. Then it's out the door to some filthy quarantine center with zero facilities, in some cases just mattresses on the ground in a large factory building.
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  14.  @happydoll2899  Believe what you want about bio labs, but it takes more than just belief to convince me. Put some evidence on the table if you want to convince anyone. Otherwise, we can all just make up our own conspiracy theories and live in our own little fantasy world.
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  15. Foxconn may be on to something here. Viewing auto manufacturing as just assembly didn't make much sense in the past, but it may make good sense with EVs.
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  16. I think it'll be covered by about one meter of gravel and sand, so you'd need a pretty big anchor to get to even the top of the tunnel.
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  17. I'm running out of semiconductors to dip in my ranch dressing.
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  18.  Griffin Taimer  Your resentment is not helpful to anyone.
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  19. Interesting theory, but we have to remember that by the time of this incident, the make-up of the new Politbureau had already been decided and the entire Central Committee likely had the names on paper. So Hu wouldn't have read anything that surprised him.
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  20.  @中央山脈-c4i  Ok, perhaps I misunderstood you. You mention a 'deal'. What kind of deal, if not a deal about the future Central Committee? So far, you are hypothesizing. That's interesting, but it's not proof of anything. Personally, Hu looks very confused to me, like someone with dementia. I would say he is halfway between Joe Biden and an assisted care facility. Sad, though, as he is still relatively young, only 79. My dad is over 90 and still clear headed. Also note that Party elders are mostly there out of respect. Hu doesn't have any official position or membership of any political organ (apart from being a party member). If Jiang Zemin had been healthy enough, he would likely have attended, too.
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  21. Like an old man on Viagra, they finally got it up.
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  22.  @whatwhat3432523  Not improve yourself. Improve your living standard. Those are two different things. Up until 30 years ago, people lived perfectly happily without computers and mobile phones. You can do this, too, but you choose to spend money on these things because they improve your life. It doesn't take much thought to understand that.
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  23.  @meagancarmichael3892  Money is not the problem and there's nothing you can do, but thanks for asking. There's plenty of food but we can't get to it. The problem is getting food and necessities from shops to our community. Imagine walking around a full supermarket, but you have no arms. That's basically our situation.
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  24. That's weird, considering kowtowing was invented in China.
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  25. (Not so) fun fact: The desire for sugar was a large part of the reason for the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the first place. Before then, Europe practically had no sugar whatsoever. Sweet foods were for the rich only. And a large part of the reason why slavery ended when it did was that European growers/farmers developed the sugar beet in the first half of the 19th century, thereby voiding the need for slave labor in the tropics.
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  26.  @JC-hl9nu  "most Chinese can afford to have second home abroad". I wonder what socio-economic circles you move in. Most Chinese? More likely a tiny, tiny minority. Here in Shanghai, it's probably less than 10% who own a second home abroad.
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  27. It's the appropriate weapon in a war that's a complete clusterfuck.
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  28. In my community there are many elderly people who have run out of insulin for their diabetes. They're calling for help on WeChat for new supplies. It's a tragedy!
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  29. There's a lot of talk about China's production overcapacity these days, but that doesn't seem to extend to babies.
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  30.  @JamescwMansfield  "we have pissed a lot of countries off. As a Brit I did get a few digs and insults" It's all part of life. Nothing much you can do about it. I'm from Denmark and we also did a number on you a thousand years ago. I hope you've gotten over it.
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  31. He probably lives on the Upper West Side now and his main concern has changed from illegal logging to 'where can I find the best espresso roast'?
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  32.  @alm777  Sorry, March 30
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  33.  @drippingout6154  Sure, it probably won't make me sick, it just doesn't taste very good. Don't worry, no one is saying we are facing starvation. I think we'll all survive.
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  34. This reminds of the old Grace Jones song "I'm Not Perfect, But I'm Perfect For You". This solar system is in no way 'perfect', if you could even label any solar system in that way, but it is perfect for the scientists who study it because it is relatively easy to study. It's like a bathroom without corners for a cleaner: So easy to clean.
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  35. Rain is God pissing on humanity. These floods are the result of God taking a big piss after four quick beers.
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  36. It appears his people condone inherited titles and leadership positions. I wonder what he thought about USA getting rid of that at its inception.
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  37.  @AdrianArgen7o  I guess that's why they named it Buenos Aires.
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  38. "It will take more than a local engineering solution to fix it". That is true, but it is also true that it will take local engineering solutions to mitigate the problem until it has been fixed on a global scale.
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  39. I see a future with legalized cannibalism. Exciting times!
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  40. It'll be interesting to learn all the details once the inquiry is complete.
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  41.  @PHlophe  "you'll forget about this in 10 minutes". I don't think I will. I have Greenland Inuit family.
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  42.  @redkop510  My praise is specific to this particular segment. Should be easy to understand.
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  43. You can only wonder how China became so big in the first place.
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  44. The other two survivors were neither girls nor teenagers, so they didn't matter to The News.
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  45. Great report! This is top quality war reporting.
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  46. "lost of translation of languages". What do you mean? The entire interview is conducted in English. There is no translation going on.
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  47.  @dttra566  I've lived here for many years. I have a good understanding of the water quality. Judging by your comment, my understanding is better than yours.
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  48.  @dttra566  I'm not an American, and I don't know why you would think that.
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  49.  @theproducersnote  "Why isn't vaccines still being pushed hard". This is the most mind boggling issue. Considering the massive coercive power the govt. has over the people, why didn't they press the vaccination drive? Apparently, lots of older people were wary of the vaccine, and the govt. just said 'ok, no problem'. And that brings us to today, with huge human and economic cost. I don't think anyone can explain it.
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  50. Did you know we use fossil fuels to grow vegetables? Not so green as they make them out to be!
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