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ilmucche posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58075743 CCP: "Oh but you allow Western propaganda The Witcher?" 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Ort means "area", ört means "herb". Use the Ö key - it's right between L and Ä. Hey maybe its some subtle chicago joke. Malört=bad herb Malort=bad area 
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Alan Smithee posted:CCP: "Oh but you allow Western propaganda The Witcher?" There's a baddie king with a red colour scheme, pretty sus IMO 
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Hey maybe its some subtle chicago joke. Mal as in "moth".
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Malört is a regular nordic bitter, or bäsk, introduced by a Swedish immigrant iirc. It is good for healthy.
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Shumagorath posted:A half-rear end vaccine and a full-rear end lockdown isn't so bad as long as the testing doesn't also... well, you know. Atlas Hugged posted:Thailand tried going all in on the sino-x vaccines, but they could never even get enough of those to vaccinate the population. Only Phuket got close to full vaccination and as we've seen, the sino vaccines do not stop transmission as was mentioned above. So all the targets or thresholds to keep Phuket open to tourists that the government established have been blown through as daily infections there keep increasing. Atopian posted:They don't work to prevent infection, but they have halfway decent efficacy in terms of hospitalisation/death, so better to have than not. SerCypher posted:Are they even still attempting to vaccinate people with the Chinese made vaccines? etc. There is value in having it, but yeah efficacy was question (and established as weak early on) and even their own people were saying it (much to the chagrin of the superiors) It looks like they will continue with the face saving thing (because - they have invested very heavily (in all capacities), but they will follow up with a third (mRNA) version. https://fortune.com/2021/07/16/china-mrna-vaccine-pfizer-biontech-fosun-doses/ Vietnam and Taiwan both hosed up on hoping for a domestic version to be ready. Taiwan got the help from that problem earlier given it's role in the global economy. Vietnam is now catching up, and the numbers while low are concerning for a country with 'almost no vaccines' in the country to defend itself with. Saigon/HCMC has/is being hammered by Delta, and we are basically under martial law at this point. Its the worst numbers in the country because of the density, and there is a freight train of vaccination going on right now which I am very pleased to see. fwiw: the French and EU citizens have support to get vaccine via their embassies. the UK government: "crickets and tumbleweed" (yay - Brexit) the Viet govt: confirmed my registration to get a vaccine. I remain simply appalled at the UK government actions. But, this is not that thread. While I'm here, hahahaha badminton win - Taiwan #1
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ilmucche posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58075743 First, it's a lovely rule that shouldn't exist and only does because the IOC gets embarrassed. gently caress those guys, they deserve to be embarrassed. Second, Mao may be a political figure, but it's clearly not a significant political statement. He's basically a symbol of China and carries about as much weight as wearing a country's flag. It's stupid to even talk about this. Weird. The IOC is so lovely that I'm taking China's side against them. That's pretty bad.
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SerCypher posted:I guess I should have said 'Don't really work" in the sense they don't have a chance of stopping the virus through herd immunity like the mRNA ones. People I know in China were basically getting forced to get the vaccine for a while, but that has seemed to slow down. Fosun really lucked out and bought the rights to the Pfizer vaccine way back before it had been fully tested and the efficacy rates were known. Then they got sorta hosed over by "needing" domestic testing/etc cuz there have been news stories they've ready to roll it out since like March. I think with how the domestic mRNA vaccine has kinda disappeared combined with Delta clusters appearing in China has finally allowed them to get into production. Do you know where people were forced to get the vaccine? I hadn't heard that and in my experience it's always been voluntary where plenty of people (like at least half of my office, numerous olds in my neighborhood, more than half of my Chinese friends, etc... in contrast to most foreigners being very eager to get vaxxed) opted to not get them because they saw them as not really worthwhile due to the low efficacy and the lack of any real clusters domestically. This is all anecdotal, of course. In fact, vaccination points here are currently mobbed because of the current Delta clusters are scaring those people into finally going to get them. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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I heard of healthcare workers getting told "get vaccinated or don't show up to work until you do" a while back but nothing else. I know a bunch of public-facing roles that haven't been forced into it even though you might imagine they had been, like teachers. Were the forced-vaccination people Party members? When they sign up, they're effectively signing away a lot of rights even as they gain some privileges. Edit: but yeah, this Delta stuff has a lot of the public running scared to the vaccination centres. Previously the attitude was "I don't have an opinion about the vaccine, but we're safe here so I don't need the hassle", but now people obviously don't feel so safe here.
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Scaring people enough to finally go get their loving vaccine already is the silver lining I suppose.
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The fun new term du-jour on Twitter
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url posted:The fun new term du-jour on Twitter
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Shumagorath posted:And unlike antifa they really are to blame for society's ill. FTFY
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Mildly weird story today: An acquaintance was at a train station and saw some guy shuffling along in leg shackles, escorted by two heavies and a guy carrying what looked like a bunch of dried/long-life food. No police/military uniforms, so ???. Acquaintance tried taking a photo, but then the heavies called a couple of police officers nearby to make them delete it. So... wtf? If you've got some super-secret prisoner stuff to do, surely there are... police vehicles for that? Not like an extreme story or anything, but so much doesn't add up. Leg shackles in public, next to plainclothes heavies, obedient police. Weird as hell.
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Ailumao posted:In fact, vaccination points here are currently mobbed because of the current Delta clusters are scaring those people into finally going to get them. I just saw on the news here that Delta's spread to 40 cities, including Wuhan who must be so loving sick and tired of this poo poo by now.
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Grand Fromage posted:Why hide it if you want to make a point? Sure, but then why no photos? It's the inconsistency that's weird. Any aspect of it could easily be explained one way or another, but taken together it's ???
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Maybe they just wanted to quietly humiliate the guy? I got arrested for shoplifting as a kid and the cops took great pleasure in walking me around the store in front of everyone while still keeping people away from me.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I just saw on the news here that Delta's spread to 40 cities, including Wuhan who must be so loving sick and tired of this poo poo by now. 
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Yeah, lots of not-exactly-lockdown going on in my area at the moment. You can technically go where you like, but if anywhere you went subsequently gets identified as a hotspot then you can end up in quarantine for a couple of weeks. So most people don't go places unless they have to. See how it goes over this month I guess. Obviously major disruption if it hits the scheduled back-to-school dates. Government by as already signaled that school opening is contingent on low infection numbers.
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lol how the gently caress is covid moving around, just ban international travel until its over. "But but my sister lives in Australia and I live in China and my dad has a summer house in France and we just have to see each other" lol eat poo poo there's a pandemic.
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Atopian posted:Sure, but then why no photos? ... ... No why.
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Atlas Hugged posted:for herd humanity to be achieved  wake up sheeple
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goblin week posted:
Ah gently caress the Illuminati is going to be furious with me for that leak.
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Happy Father's Day to my fellow Goon Dads. I'm lucky enough to have a patio this year so I can BBQ by myself while drinking beer.
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Yeah feel good being a new dad. gotta go change my 3rd diaper in 2 hours now
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Are you the guy in the Taiwan LINE group posting about your new kid? Anyway, just wait until your kid is five and asking you uncomfortable questions about existence.
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the very same. hey, if my kid doing that, you know you I succeeded.
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Get some sleep then. It's gonna be a rough forever.
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Tnuctip posted:Living in Ohio, it was called Cinci-Nasti I know, I grew up there  Ironically, the first country I went to outside of the US was China in 2001, and it was like "wait, this is cleaner than Cincinnati..."
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When I first came to China, the place/time meant that it had a very rough-and-ready, chabuduo, wild-west atmosphere. Which made it more amusing when one of my earliest conversations was with some US factory manager dude drowning his sorrows in a bar as he lamented that labour here was so much bitchier and protected than back home, that you couldn't just fire people when you wanted, you had to give notice and reasons, and all I could do was smile and nod. But yeah, it's a weird fractured social landscape from my outside perspective. Some things much worse than what I was used to, a few things better, difficult to determine why. Then, society being arbitrary/subjective, I'm sure the reverse must be true for Chinese people going elsewhere.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Are you the guy in the Taiwan LINE group posting about your new kid? my kid was just about five last year when he busted out the line "dad, am I real or not real" before 7am on a Saturday
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The Great Autismo! posted:my kid was just about five last year when he busted out the line "dad, am I real or not real" before 7am on a Saturday I hope you answered "yes", in the finest zen tradition.
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Atopian posted:Yeah, lots of not-exactly-lockdown going on in my area at the moment. yeah, they've pretty much suggested people don't leave their province for this reason. I cancelled a trip to HZ which would've been fine but I don't wanna end up in quarantine. That said, the Pudong cluster seems to be contained and jiangsu is trending down. I think it's mostly bad because Delta is so much more easy to spread, 94 cases yesterday which is a new high. From what I've read a lot of heads must be rolling in Jiangsu rn between the initial outbreaks now stemming from the Nanjing airport (which seems to have been made worse by lax testing/contact tracing initially) and the woman who basically escaped nanjing to travel to yangzhou, and used a fake QR code and go to a mahjong parlor, basically causing basically the whole yangzhou outbreak. Basically all the people checking QR codes rn in Shanghai are asking for you to open the code in front of them probably cuz of that.
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Ailumao posted:From what I've read a lot of heads must be rolling in Jiangsu rn between the initial outbreaks now stemming from the Nanjing airport (which seems to have been made worse by lax testing/contact tracing initially) and the woman who basically escaped nanjing to travel to yangzhou, and used a fake QR code and go to a mahjong parlor, basically causing basically the whole yangzhou outbreak. Mahjong also responsible for a few small clusters/spread in Taiwan as I recall, and I'd bet there was spread from it in SG etc. Motherfuckers just gotta go and game no matter what
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Ailumao posted:yeah, they've pretty much suggested people don't leave their province for this reason. I cancelled a trip to HZ which would've been fine but I don't wanna end up in quarantine. That does sound very Jiangsu. And yes, you could always get through checkpoints with a screenshot of a code, because I did every time the app glitched, which was often.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Mahjong also responsible for a few small clusters/spread in Taiwan as I recall, and I'd bet there was spread from it in SG etc. Time to bring in the big guns if we're to end this mahjong pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCtFcZj4Dc
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Atopian posted:That does sound very Jiangsu. The fact every province or even city uses a different code is pretty annoying. The Shanghai code works through Alipay or Wechat and is very solid, loads fast, and is easy to access. When I traveled last year or earlier this year every city had a new app or miniapp and it was completely random if they worked well or not. Chengdu has an A+ health code app where under the code it shows a panda at home until you get vaccinated when the panda goes on a trip. I thought that was cute and know a couple people who got vaccinated literally to have the cooler panda.
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Ailumao posted:Chengdu has an A+ health code app where under the code it shows a panda at home until you get vaccinated when the panda goes on a trip. I thought that was cute and know a couple people who got vaccinated literally to have the cooler panda. This is good public health policy.
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