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Grand Fromage posted:This is again one of those things that looks true when you visit Shanghai and write a news article, but is by no means true in general. Only around 55% of the population even have a smartphone. Goons will never acknowledge the existence of the proletariat.
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Speaking of airlines, there are still flights in and out of China mainly on Chinese carriers and at reduced frequencies. Most if not all airlines who have cancelled or reduced their flights to China have set end of April as the target date for when they'll go back to a normal schedule. Two weeks ago the target was end of March.
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fish and chips and dip posted:Speaking of airlines, there are still flights in and out of China mainly on Chinese carriers and at reduced frequencies. Honestly the tourism dollars that are lost from this are going to hurt a lot of people. I was just in Bali and 60-70% of their tourists are from China and that is 0 now. Imagine a country just suddenly losing a huge chunk of its income for months on end.
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MarcusSA posted:Honestly the tourism dollars that are lost from this are going to hurt a lot of people. You're really making me want to get out and travel now, to be honest. Not even the Chinese specifically, but anything that cuts down on tour group types is going to make major tourist attractions way better. Hell, if I'm lucky other countries' tour groups will get paranoid and cancel too.
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Akratic Method posted:You're really making me want to get out and travel now, to be honest. Not even the Chinese specifically, but anything that cuts down on tour group types is going to make major tourist attractions way better. Hell, if I'm lucky other countries' tour groups will get paranoid and cancel too. I’ve heard cruises are pretty cheap now.
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MarcusSA posted:I’ve heard cruises are pretty cheap now. You couldn't pay me to take a cruise under the best of circumstances, to be frank. They're just anathema to my travel style/interests.
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MarcusSA posted:Honestly the tourism dollars that are lost from this are going to hurt a lot of people. Bali is probably better off from a pause in unrelenting tourism.
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Akratic Method posted:You couldn't pay me to take a cruise under the best of circumstances, to be frank. They're just anathema to my travel style/interests. I'm 0-1 on cruises, caught the norovirus the only time I've tried it. Shat my guts out for a few days. With my luck, 100% chance I'd get me some coronavirus.
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This is probably the best opportunity ever to visit Angkor Wat.
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I like cruises and the 80$ doller a day alcohol pass that somehow saves me money
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Atlas Hugged posted:This is probably the best opportunity ever to visit Angkor Wat. Holy poo poo, this and stay in a four star hotel without wumaos stealing your chair and food after you struggle to get something from the buffet
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The chinese character for "crisis" is the same for "opportunity" im told.
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Dandywalken posted:Hell, I love China China could be so good if it wasn't being held back by like two centuries of extremely bad governance
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MarcusSA posted:Honestly the tourism dollars that are lost from this are going to hurt a lot of people. I dunno how true, or in how big numbers this is, but I read an article that was talking about how a lot of Chinese tourism, (especially those in organized tour groups), contributes next to nothing to the local economy. Because the actual tourists paid a Chinese company for the tour, and when there, the tour company herds the tourist to Chinese owned restaurants/gift shops etc. either getting kickbacks or they are also outright ownde by the tour company. So very little money gets put into the local economy. This sounds reasonable to me, but again, I dunno how widespread this practice is, nor how much a percentage of tourists use companies like this.
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Depends on the place and the sector. I know there are stores in Japan that make like half their yearly sales revenue to CNY tour groups, and a lot of places in Korea like Jeju suffered economically when China was butthurt about THAAD and banned travel for a while.
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I'm planning to head to Taiwan in the few weeks, so the lack of chinese tour groups should be a blessing.
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poo poo is getting medieval https://twitter.com/PerthWAustralia/status/1229209836300095488
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Despera posted:The chinese character for "crisis" is the same for "opportunity" im told. I remember the Terry Pratchett take on that. "Mind you, their character for 'wife' is made up of 'woman' and 'slave'."
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One of my favorite bands is from Chengdu and scheduled to play SXSW, would be real poo poo if virus-related travel shenanigans mean they can't actually make it.
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Vegetable posted:Where the hell are you getting that they've restricted the free movement of physical cash  MarcusSA posted:Honestly the tourism dollars that are lost from this are going to hurt a lot of people. So, it's just drunken loving Aussies now? Which begs the question - are even Chinese tourists worst than Australians?
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Nothingtoseehere posted:I'm planning to head to Taiwan in the few weeks, so the lack of chinese tour groups should be a blessing. China had already banned travel to Taiwan over political stuff off and on for a bit, which cut down on the groups overall. It's usually actually not that bad even beforehand, though of course now it should be basically zero.
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I find yobbo Australians when drunk, the most dangerous animal to ever be encountered when angry. Chinese are just super rude and annoying in comparison Psst, wanna buy some blackmarket toilet rolls? Kharnifex fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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Can I get a show of hands, who thinks the Coronavirus situation is much worse than what the official Chinese government statistics say?
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3.6 million infected. Not great also not terrible
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Jerry Cotton posted:Goons will never acknowledge the existence of the proletariat. You're joking around I think. It's true though, because what reason would most goons have to exist alongside China's proletariat. But man, poo poo sucks right now.
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Boiled Water posted:3.6 million infected. Not great also not terrible How many people does each case infect in return in average? 6?
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Please, while shopping for miniature replicas of Japanese guns do not forget. https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32902066969.html
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D-Pad posted:Scimitar Horned Oryx. Extinct in the wild but at the time could be found on Texas high fenced hunting ranches. Then the law got changed and it wasn't legal to hunt them anymore because of their status so most places got rid of them and they just became extinct. that's fascinating. in vietnam they got places where u can blow up a cow with an RPG
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:that's fascinating. in vietnam they got places where u can blow up a cow with an RPG Brb, booking a Vietnam trip. Seriously though, you got a link that sounds awesome.
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Power Khan posted:How many people does each case infect in return in average? 6? The replication number(r0) is estimated about 4+. Flu is 1.28.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:that's fascinating. in vietnam they got places where u can blow up a cow with an RPG I thought that was Cambodia, and like 15-20 years ago. Phnom Penh has come a long way.
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oohhboy posted:The replication number(r0) is estimated about 4+. Flu is 1.28. I enjoy seeing "But flu kills way more people each year! Clearly all this worry is purely based on racism" - articles
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Fojar38 posted:actually I think you'll find that China will easily hit 6% growth and everyone will believe them There are 2 ways to raise GDP per capita, more money or less capita... 
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A deliveryman in Hong Kong was robbed at knifepoint for his toilet paper packages, lmaoD-Pad posted:The CCP is attempting to do with Huawei exactly what the US/CIA did with the swedish Crypto company that got exposed by the Washington Post last week. Except Huawei infrastructure will allow them to do it to average citizens instead of only encrypted government communications. Exactly. Someone in this big European conference about the issue was basically saying the US needs to come up with an alternative to Huawei because they're that much cheaper than Nokia or Ericsson. Almost like inviting the US to subsidize their telecom instead of China, which is totally missing the point that there is a REASON Huawei is so cheap and, surprise surprise, it's not out of the goodness of their hearts. You can either pay a western company the proper amount for the job or you can indebt yourself to China and put your entire telecom operations at their mercy. The cheap prices are a bit of a poisoned chalice, basically. Or at least they have the huge potential to be so. What are the benefits to Huawei and the Chinese state in offering these absurdly low prices? There has to be something . . . Zushio posted:It is really worrying how many people here have Huawei phones honestly. They give them out like candy though. I actually have a Huawei phone, it's not a big deal. They can listen to me grunting on the toilet to their heart's content, I have no data that would really interest them. Telecom INFRASTRUCTURE is another story in my opinion and is sensitive enough to warrant spending any amount of money to ensure that you have proper control over it. I probably won't get another because I don't want to be exposed to lack of updates if this little war gets more serious, but honestly it's been a great phone and if the Chinese government wants to subsidize my mobile phone for me I say let em Also I'm not sure I understand why every country suddenly feels like it needs 5G. Can someone explain that to me, why everyone is so keen? I feel like just making the existing networks stronger would be pretty okay, or at least waiting until installing 5G isn't so expensive
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