Bulletin No. 2, 2020

Coming Closer at a Distance: Snapshots of CUHK in the pandemic 41 prepper , n. A person who believes an apocalypse is coming and makes such efforts as stockpiling food to prepare for it. Possibly coined by believers of a Y2K apocalypse and often used mockingly until the pandemic. I’ve come to respect the preppers ’ ethos of survival and preparedness…We’re right to be angry at the people stripping supermarkets bare and hoarding desperately needed supplies. Those people aren’t preppers, however. Preppers don’t engage in panic-buying. That’s the whole point. That’s why it is called prepping. 7 raise the line , phr. To increase the capacity of the healthcare system, ‘the line’ being the threshold at which the system becomes overloaded. Often used in conjunction with ‘flattening the curve’, the term for curbing an explosion of new cases, which is another way to prevent the system from being saturated. Manufacturing more supplies like ventilators, masks, and gloves— another key element of raising the line —isn’t easy, exactly, but it’s no mystery how the US can do it: by reengineering America’s immense manufacturing power to focus on the current crisis. 8