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WarpedNaba posted:In any event, the flu doesn't seem to be mutating into anything heftier than a boomer bomb. Small miracles, I guess. I'm going to knock on wood for you. Please be more careful in the future. 
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I don't come to the China thread to get my wood knocked.
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No post 90s beauties, only pestilence. Hey btw, China has a natural reservoir of the black plague. Go look it up.
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Sometimes I really wish that it was possible to do a proper study of wildlife dynamics over time in China, but it can't really happen because you'd have to start by acknowledging that the vast majority of even vaguely edible land animals got almost wiped out few decades ago, which is both why it would be interesting and also why it's not allowed.
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ded posted:One of the guys that did this tried to sell the house from under his wife and 3 kids.
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ded posted:Chinese couple, left his chinese wife and kids in the US. Went home to china and married a local 20 year old. Never filing a divorce in the US. Yeeeep. These cases were pretty well known in consulates throughout China and you are right that it's usually men skipping out on their wives. The money is gone unless they left it in their personal accounts where the courts can get to it (this is worth checking) or the person leaves China again to somewhere with enforceable laws.
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I am still alive and not infected for now Home learning is Great, as the schools have been canceled until after Easter. We've got some staff members who just cannot bring themselves to find out how Google Classroom works, and I have a good third of my students who I haven't heard of at all because they are in China and cannot communicate with our g suite accounts. Certain districts in Hong Kong are mask-free. If you go up to the peak or other places where rich expats live, then nobody wears masks.
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Of all the people in Hong Kong rich expats are by far the worst.
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Rabelais D posted:Of all the people in Hong Kong rich expats are by far the worst. Well, at least in the "skip back to China with as much of their foreign spouse's $$$ as they can grab" scenario if they run back to Hong Kong you'd have a decent chance of litigating some money back from them.
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Rabelais D posted:Of all the people in Hong Kong rich expats are by far the worst. Oh here we go ragging on the immigrants 
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Shumagorath posted:Realtalk if the family ever gets advance notice this guy is anywhere outside the CCP panopticon they should get there ahead of time and break his pelvis. Are you OK?
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Did you know? The virus is spreading quicker outside of China, this is because foreigner biology is different, and not due to understated figures from the Chinese authorities. Phlegm beyond measure outlander!
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Why do people still want to invest money in China? Greed, except at this point it's dumb greed
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My husband's employer sent an email to its workers, offering an exclusive discount on some TCM immune boosting crap lol This mystery powder normally retails at 180HKD and we can get it for a mere 60!!
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bones 4 beginners posted:My husband's employer sent an email to its workers, offering an exclusive discount on some TCM immune boosting crap lol This mystery powder normally retails at 180HKD and we can get it for a mere 60!! Is it 双黄连？poo poo pisses me off so much, party acts like their censorship is to protect people from fake news but people (the drug makers?) start spreading that 双黄连 kills the virus and they do nothing, and you know what's in that bullshit? Skullcap, forsythia and honeysuckle. The gently caress is that gonna do? In anyone got sick because they thought that was protecting them, should guillotine every last person responsible for advertising that the drug could do anything at all.
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Why do people still want to invest money in China? if you want to do a pcb with hours turnaround and make the order at 2am and then scale to 100 million orders, your choices for places to do this is basically shenzhen or nothing also for like 1/5 the price of americans same for everything else light electronicsy other stuff, who knows
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Why do people still want to invest money in China? A lot of companies post-2008 saw a huge boost in sales coming from China. Some of them even spent a lot of money to increase their capacity under the assumption that demand from China will stay high or increase. But all this demand from China was going to be temporary because it was a result of a huge growth in debt, and there's only so much debt that can be pushed into the economy before it stops having an effect. So you have a bunch of companies trying to chase the boom they saw a decade ago but are refusing to believe that the Chinese economy is slowing down or naively hoping that the boom years will return again.
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Fojar38 posted:Greed, except at this point it's dumb greed Pretty much this. Unless you're some luxury brand that has very good name recognition in China, you're gonna have a bad time. If you're a product that doesn't have a competitor in China then expect to spend a shitload of money getting established and up and running. Then a few months later all your IP and and manufacturing processes go out the back door and a local company with CCP support starts doing the same thing. Somehow all of your client data and contract info make it to this competing start-up and they undercut you until you have to close shop.
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Rich people think investing in totalitarian countries will make them richer because they have the "the more the worker is oppressed the richer I get" mindset from domestic business and can't break out it.
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WarpedNaba posted:I mean, what am I supposed to see? That the PRC and its members are mass murdering sociopaths? Are the corpses supposed to be footprints? The Covid-19 corpses are hidden in the shadow of Xi's media presence
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Imperialist Dog posted:Certain districts in Hong Kong are mask-free. If you go up to the peak or other places where rich expats live, then nobody wears masks. I mean, it's basically edited for clarity Shrimp or Shrimps fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Atopian posted:I always had a soft spot for the various equine encephalitis viruses (EEVs) - don't much care between EEEV / WEEV / VEEV / etc. Horses are as rare as rich people, with the bonus of being sequestered to farms far away from dumb kids feeding them chocolate, gopher holes, or anything faster/larger than a shopping scooter at 20% charge. The chance they'll get near people poor enough to get sick only happens with jockeys, and those get replaced if they're not 100% healthy Cheesemaster200 posted:Why do people still want to invest money in China? China is "untapped market potential" and that matters when you run the doomsday capitalism of modern American corporations which end up like a massive pyramid scheme hellbent on profit, and you want in on the ground floor for best returns before the poor debt themselves into insolvency.
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So just so I'm not being an ignoramus who deserves death as per usual, Covid-19's a contact disease, yes? Face masks only help if you're trying not to spread it (IE, won't do poo poo to save you).
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WarpedNaba posted:So just so I'm not being an ignoramus who deserves death as per usual, Covid-19's a contact disease, yes? Face masks only help if you're trying not to spread it (IE, won't do poo poo to save you). They remind you to stop touching your ugly face and make you slightly less offensive to the eyes of others.
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WarpedNaba posted:So just so I'm not being an ignoramus who deserves death as per usual, Covid-19's a contact disease, yes? Face masks only help if you're trying not to spread it (IE, won't do poo poo to save you). Masks at great to stop you from spraying spittle everywhere. Eye shields prevent you from mindlessly putting your dirty maws in your eyes. Wash your loving hands.
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If you're in close proximity with someone who is sick for a long period of time, the masks could help you from inhaling any droplets they expel. But you'd need something like an N95 rated mask that makes a tight seal around your mouth and nose, and not those surgical masks that you see everyone in Asia typically wearing. Also, it doesn't do anything to protect your eyes from coming into contact with the droplets, or if later on you touch your mouth or nose without cleaning your hands after being near someone sick.
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The gently caress is that?! I think I need (but probably don’t want) some context.
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I just got yelled at for boarding the bus without a mask here in Korea. I suppose I should have been reading those signs. I guess you need them to enter convenience stores as well. It's a bad time to be in the service industry. I mean, it's never a good time, but now you've got all these potentially infected people to interact with all day too.
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Tarquinn posted:The gently caress is that?! I think I need (but probably don’t want) some context.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:This is a still from the excellent movie "Contagion" where Jude Law plays a snake oil salesman. Don't feel too relieved that it's from a movie though. Actual scammers act exactly like his character. There's already tons of people hawking essential oils, homeopathy, herbs, colloidal silver, etc. as protection from coronavirus, often accompanied by dumb conspiracy theories. Thanks!  Have to look up that movie.
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i started getting a life and going out on the weekends and getting back into the gym and stuff just in time for a dang pandemic. i guess maybe this is all my fault.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:This is a still from the excellent movie "Contagion" where Jude Law plays a snake oil salesman. Don't feel too relieved that it's from a movie though. Actual scammers act exactly like his character. There's already tons of people hawking essential oils, homeopathy, herbs, colloidal silver, etc. as protection from coronavirus, often accompanied by dumb conspiracy theories. lol did someone post the guy claiming that drinking his special bleach will protect you?
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