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That wasn't the only apparent effort at discouraging turnout that voters faced in the City of Brotherly Love.

To avoid discouraging students, some school districts did away with D and F grades.

When Trump asks the question, however, he is zeroing in on the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — before stay-at-home orders were initiated and vaccines were rolled out — when the Trump Administration was discouraging mask wearing and toying with the idea of trying to reach herd immunity while public anxiety went through the roof.

Earlier this month, some business owners who run coffeeshops, bookshops and bars in Shanghai received government notices discouraging Halloween events, the BBC understands.

The BBC has also seen a notice from another university in Shanghai issued to students in mid-October discouraging them to "reduce participation in big and small gatherings in the near future".