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Shumagorath posted:Sorceress' conclave? It's a coven or a cabal.
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As someone in South Korea at the moment, (albeit rural Gangwon-do), the response here has been fine. A bunch of stuff in my small town is still open, some stuff is closed, supermarkets have ample supplies of toilet paper etc. I have been teaching online classes for the last 2 weeks and all is well. Also due to CORVID19-unrelated medical issues I have been in an ambulance, and to 2 different hospitals in those 2 weeks, and whilst everybody is wearing masks, (it is enforced at the door along with hand sanitizer), all is groovy. And whilst I am talking about unrelated stuff. I have decided that I am not renewing my contract here. (Nothing to do with the place, just don't like job hours and the owner/boss) My contract runs out in May so I know that I have come to this decision a bit late, but does anyone higher up the food chain than me know if people will be hiring in ESL jobs due to Corona? I mean will employers be willing to take on foreigners due to fear? Or will I be more attractive to them as I am willing to move to Asia/Europe, when possibly they will be experiencing a lack of applicants?
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sticksy posted:Did you know? Covid19 is stored in the balls https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/1238880069457764352?s=21 Well...... Who knew Children of Men would come true.
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BrigadierSensible posted:And whilst I am talking about unrelated stuff. I have decided that I am not renewing my contract here. (Nothing to do with the place, just don't like job hours and the owner/boss) My contract runs out in May so I know that I have come to this decision a bit late, but does anyone higher up the food chain than me know if people will be hiring in ESL jobs due to Corona? I mean will employers be willing to take on foreigners due to fear? Or will I be more attractive to them as I am willing to move to Asia/Europe, when possibly they will be experiencing a lack of applicants? i wouldn't recommend this line of work at the moment. various governments are either currently enacting or preparing to enact a state of emergency, and depending on the country, their emergency policies can also include reduction or up to total suspension of wages for ESL assistant-type teachers (and even normal teachers). being unable to rely on even receiving a paycheck at all because of factors outside of your control isn't fun in your home country, but now imagine that except you're living abroad, you still have to pay bills and rent, and you'll have to pay your company if you say gently caress this and break contract after the third consecutive month of not receiving a wage whatsoever Raged posted:Well...... Who knew Children of Men would come true. "may cause" means they might as well be excluding "all subjects exhibiting impotence also happen to come from prefectures where lead is in the water and the air, and the building materials their apartments are made of contain depleted uranium" Fur20 fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Mar 15, 2020 |
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The White Dragon posted:i wouldn't recommend this line of work at the moment. Thanks for the advice, and yeah, this is one of my concerns. Another is will I be even be able to fly home. Australia is notoriously xenophobic and has a government that gets an erection from the very words "close the borders". So maybe in a couple of months they won't be accepting flights home from Seoul.
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LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!
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A little piece of news that caught my eye: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/chinese-executive-who-called-xi-a-clown-over-coronavirus-response-is-missingquote:Chinese executive who called Xi a 'clown' over coronavirus response 'is missing' Who's the clown now 
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Just saw a breaking news tweet that the virus is still not under control In Wuhan
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Are they saying Wuhan? No, sir...they're saying Woo!!! Han!!!
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Just got "official" word from our school that all foreigners entering china through Beijing must spend 14 days in a "quarantine facility" (cheap hotel?) at their own expense. I guess I'm glad we never left...
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Shouldn't it be Hong Kong SARS-2 China now?
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Mods please change my name to ChinaIsAsshoe
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yaffle posted:Just got "official" word from our school that all foreigners entering china through Beijing must spend 14 days in a "quarantine facility" (cheap hotel?) at their own expense. I guess I'm glad we never left... They say in all the announcements that you'll have to cover the expenses, but there's a place they'll put you in for free in Shanghai. Know a guy locked up in it right now, he says the food sucks and he cant get booze but other than that it's not really too bad. The only other option they gave him was 500rmb a night so gently caress that. It's just a hotel it's not some weird quarantine facility built in 10 days or something.
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Well I mean not like there's a shortage of hotel rooms right now.
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I'm still in Osaka, things are still pretty much business as usual except for the park closures and event cancellations. I'm getting increasingly paranoid though. I'm going to see how this week goes, all my vendors have bailed and theres only so much I can do here without them anyways. But I'm still not sure if I'm better off here or back home in Orlando. All the offices are shut down with strict Work From Home orders for everyone. Its apparently hard to get much food or other supplies. My job is on the construction site though, so not entirely sure what I would be doing if I do bail. I'm just so unsure and trying not to panic.
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Meanwhile, Genesis P-Orridge quietly died without waiting for the sexy virus.
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Absolutely no loving surprise that 'Patient 31', who infected over a thousand people in South Korea, is a 61-year old cultist ajumma. Source quote:The woman didn't take the test for coronavirus. She had not travelled overseas since the outbreak began - she reasoned - and had not been in contact with any confirmed cases of the coronavirus (that she knew of).
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Jeoh posted:Absolutely no loving surprise that 'Patient 31', who infected over a thousand people in South Korea, is a 61-year old cultist ajumma. "Typhoid Myung-hee"
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Jeoh posted:Absolutely no loving surprise that 'Patient 31', who infected over a thousand people in South Korea, is a 61-year old cultist ajumma. It's wild to me that Korea got this under control when dealing with a secret christian cult actively hiding their members very early on, while the UK, Japan, and the US duke it out for which place can gently caress it up the response most.
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Magna Kaser posted:It's wild to me that Korea got this under control when dealing with a secret christian cult actively hiding their members very early on, while the UK, Japan, and the US duke it out for which place can gently caress it up the response most. They treated it seriously and actually threw money and resources at the problem immediately. That's the thing.
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Korea being competent is the wild thing. Their government is usually pretty bumbling, this containment is the most impressive thing they've done in a long time.
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Magna Kaser posted:It's wild to me that Korea got this under control when dealing with a secret christian cult actively hiding their members very early on, while the UK, Japan, and the US duke it out for which place can gently caress it up the response most. Just to clarify. They were hiding their members (as in their members that had infiltrated the various levels of government) or they were hiding members who were infected because they wanted to bring about the "end of days"?
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Magna Kaser posted:It's wild to me that Korea got this under control when dealing with a secret christian cult actively hiding their members very early on, while the UK, Japan, and the US duke it out for which place can gently caress it up the response most. in the US, the Christian cult is running the country
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Grand Fromage posted:Korea being competent is the wild thing. Their government is usually pretty bumbling, this containment is the most impressive thing they've done in a long time. Well, it did come at the tail end of them tossing out a bunch of people for corruption after a gigantic scandal. Probably takes time for the new officials to get comfortable and complacent in their positions and decide they won't be similarly ruined for being ineffective shitheels. In China and the US the incompetent fuckups responsible are pretty well cemented into their positions, at least until the next US election. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 16, 2020 |
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Blistex posted:Just to clarify. They were hiding their members (as in their members that had infiltrated the various levels of government) or they were hiding members who were infected because they wanted to bring about the "end of days"? I can't find the exact news reports I read a couple of weeks ago when it was going on, so I may be getting some details wrong. But if I recall correctly the group had especially intimate services where everyone sat in close proximity which why it spread like crazy. They also told their members Jesus and God protect them so they can't get sick, and when authorities came around asking for who went to the services they weren't cooperative at all. So kind of a boring middle ground between your two scenarios.
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Why is Korea such a haven for weird cult poo poo? Moonies, the president having a personal shaman, Shincheonji, all of North Korea. A lot of it has a heavy emphasis on getting huge groups of people together do do things in sync for whatever reason like moonie weddings, mass games, the shincheonji services, and extreme conformity (apparently like 95% of South Korean cars are black, white, or silver; or the way plastic surgery to make you look like everyone else is the norm). Is there any sociological type thing to read about this, it's kind of interesting to me.   shincheonji, not north korean mass games d0s fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Mar 16, 2020 |
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d0s posted:Why is Korea such a haven for weird cult poo poo? Moonies, the president having a personal shaman, Shincheonji, all of North Korea. A lot of it has a heavy emphasis on getting huge groups of people together do do things in sync for whatever reason like moonie weddings, mass games, the shincheonji services, and extreme conformity (apparently like 95% of South Korean cars are black, white, or silver; or the way plastic surgery to make you look like everyone else is the norm). Is there any sociological type thing to read about this, it's kind of interesting to me. I don't really have an answer, but this article sheds some light about the history of Shincheonji and its predecessor, the Olive Tree movement. Basically these churches got their start during the Korean War as a place for people to find spiritual comfort and meaning while the world around them was falling apart. Then, when South Korea went through rapid industrialization during the Park dictatorship, people that were left out of the economic growth turned to these churches. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/asia/religious-movements-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html
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CIGNX posted:I don't really have an answer, but this article sheds some light about the history of Shincheonji and its predecessor, the Olive Tree movement. Basically these churches got their start during the Korean War as a place for people to find spiritual comfort and meaning while the world around them was falling apart. Then, when South Korea went through rapid industrialization during the Park dictatorship, people that were left out of the economic growth turned to these churches. Another reason was that being a devout Christian was usually a good indicator that you were not a Communist sympathizer or a North Korean agent, so they were seen as more trustworthy (one reason why the Government was full of them), then like every group with perceived special privileges, everyone wanted to hop on the gravy-train. I think there were some stories (not sure if they were true) during the mass executions of potential communists that some people were spared when they pulled out crosses and started praying. Probably a rumour, but it's the kind of rumour that (at the time) would compel people to "find Jesus" in case there was another incident.
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So China's reporting that they've only had 4 new cases since the last report. ... right. Incidentally, the Beeb report that placed that on the live update seems to have disappeared off of the face of the earth. So much for that gag reflex, I guess.
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Re: Korea cults, it feels like a place where Christianity meets all the stuff that was there before, and it all gets taken seriously. Like, Japan is also an interface, but they don't really take it seriously, so it doesn't have quite the same effect.
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Cultures where there is a history of choreographed performance smells like militaristic heritage to me. Its a good way to maintain training in your population for when the northern invaders drop in.
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WarpedNaba posted:Wait, what cultures don't have some version of group dance in? Square dance baby
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WarpedNaba posted:Wait, what cultures don't have some version of group dance in? Electric slide
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Black Friday shopping stampedes are a form of group performance by the poor for the entertainment of the rich.
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