You aren't supposed to play it for hours at a time. In fact if it is left on for more than four hours you may need to consult a technician.

Good that the international community actions had worked in pressuring them to share some information then. Let's make transparency a regular thing so that we can all be safe.

Because while we do have clear data in the US and what the US variant can do, we do not have clear data on what is happening in China right now. That's the difference. Ana that's all WHO is asking right now, more data so that the rest of the world can know whether to take extra precautions or would that be unnecessary.

And until we have clear data it's reasonable for the rest of the world to assume the worse and try to protect itself. And maybe the collective action of the rest of the world in requiring travelers from China to have negative tests, can help in pressuring the Chinese government to make their data more transparent to avoid the international reactionary restrictions.

Wearing a mask is good practice but it's obviously not foolproof. We don't know whether the new vaccines will be helpful if we aren't even sure of what new variants there may be.

Ethics aside, Human rights violations inside their own country is arguably less important to the rest of the world, than potential new COVID variants that can spread to the rest of the world. These variant may be just like omicron, or it may be weaker, or even more dangerous, but we don't know that, because we don't have the data. This is why the COVID situation in any country anywhere, not just China, is everyone's damn business.

We all "opened up" because there's clear and transparent data on the dominant omicron strain, and we know what it is capable of, and that it's not necessary to control it.

We cannot say the same about the situation in China now because we do not know for sure whether there are new dangerous variants that are unreported.

This isn't asking for much, simply report your data like everyone else and let the world knows it's just the standard omicron variant, and let the world study the numerous new subtype that has been founded in China now so that we know they are not any more dangerous than the regular omicron. Then we can all be safe.

This isn't something strange to ask, this is what the rest of the world had been doing, and that's how we discovered variants like Beta, Delta, Omicron, etc.

The world needs to know the specific types of mutations that had occurred in the outbreak in China, which obviously they can't get from the "five billion" other people "out there" in the rest of the world. And they need to know that because, when these mutations inevitably make their way outside of China, the rest of the world needs to know what may be the potential effects and how to prepare for it.

This isn't a request that is specific to China. This is expected from all other countries when a new variant potentially arises. No country should be allowed to keep their outbreak data secret for the safety of the world.

They are not available. They did not agree to the terms set by the Chinese government that require them to transfer the mRNA technology to China.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-refused-china-request-reveal-vaccine-technology-ft-2022-10-02/