VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

I saw the security guards moving the packages from the entrance to another place.

And tonight one friend visited me.
She told me she found a taxi and she would visit Jing an and asked wether I was at home. It was so sudden.

When we look back we think it was a stupid drama.

Two months ago my friend was responsible to provide vegetables so he knew because it was planned until the end of May. / the planning stopped in May so he guessed it may reopen right after.

The government thought everything might have been under control in June. -> back then / back in April the government thought everything might be under control by June  / everything would be under control by June.

I don’t know if it true that all the sick people are brought to the quarantine center.
There is no middle ground it is all clear / there is no in between the only way to get out of this situations is to have 0 cases.

If some people are not tested positive and are not put in the quarantine center they will spread the virus everywhere . There is no middle ground  / there is no in between.

Some WeChat group leaders have good products and fair price but they earn some money from the lockdown / they profit from the lockdown.

At the beginning they were less free than SH / they had less freedom than in SH.
SH was more lenient in terms of lockdown restrictions.

SH office is part of the subsidiary of the company.
The people in SH office are not so close to the HK people / there is a distance between the SH staff and the HK staff.
I don’t need to go back to the office but I need to go to HK as soon as possible.

I just need to drop by the IT office to get some support.

Later he didn’t employee by any company.  / He was not the employee of any company / later he worked for himself.
He has a consulting firm so he might be invited to similar expert meetings quite a lot. / he is probably familiar with this kind of expert meeting. He is good at elaborating things.

Sometimes I am not fully understand.  -> I don’t fully understand 

They want to do calls. The middle man /agency do / intermediary  does not want us to have a direct contact with the expert.

Web meetings are easier.

We have some similar cases that we can take as a reference. / We can refer to similar cases in the past
Wuxi and Nanjing  started the lock down 2 months earlier than SH.

The shops in these 2 lockdown cities tripled their sales versus last year.

Most of the shops tripled their sales according to last year.

People who get most influenced are lower paid people. / The lower paid people suffered the most from the lockdown.

Most wealthy people own many properties. When the inflation comes the properties also appreciate and they don’t suffer too much.

Now they either need to spend in China or try to find a way to hedge against inflation  / to protect their capital / wealth.

They are lack of stock -> they lack the inventory  / they have very limited productions.

If you exclude China, the rest of the world resumed and business is going back. / the rest of the world is going back to life before Covid.

Vocabulary

Underwater : at a loss (casual)
I am underwater because it dropped 25% 

Capital control (n) when there are measure to limit movement of capital
China has new capital control measure to stop people from sending their money abroad.

intermediary (n) middle man or entity
The agency works as an intermediary between house buyers and house sellers 

Employee (n)
I am an employee of ABC company

To employ (v)
ABC company employs me

employer (n)
ABC company is my employer