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It does seem like a no doubt welcome concession to reality, if not competence in execution.

The part about social distancing on the subway, probably any metropolitan subway system, seems particularly odd.

How could anyone who’d ridden any subway, anywhere compose such a sentence?

I suppose on balance it’s good news.

So congratulations for that much.

Here’s hoping for a rapid return to normalcy.

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Most slogans do not seem to be meant to be taken too seriously. The Chinese government has a long standing habit of releasing slogans which are either new and contorted or old and clichéd. Those in the first category very few people understand. Those in the second category are usually either at odds with reality or so banal as to be meaningless.

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