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Blistex posted:Because they are irreparably broke-brained? I remember you talking about that guy in one of the last threads. I think you said he had a very bad case of culture shock and just acted like he was in prison. Did his time and went home.
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Read an nice little op-ed from Rest of World. https://restofworld.org/2022/chinese-internet-chatter-on-ukraine/ It makes a great point about how looking at Chinese social media will not give you an accurate picture of public sentiment, as both government pressure and a grassroots ultra‐nationalist online community lead to liberal voices being suppressed. I often read articles from Western publications about China and there's often a part where the writer goes "...and this is what Chinese netizens think about this development!" and includes a smattering of random posts from Weibo. Kevin DuBrow fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Ups_rail posted:I remember you talking about that guy in one of the last threads. Yeah. He was from some flyover state and this was the first time venturing more than a state line from his birthplace. I think dropping him in your average white-bread state capitol would have had similar effects.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Read an nice little op-ed from Rest of World. I loved chinasmack for trying to at least present inclusive views into Chinese internet culture.
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BrainDance posted:I have, on more than one occasion, gotten nachos that replace the sour cream with sweet yogurt. My favorite example of this was when a Korea goon got a baked potato with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Same goon also got tacos with whipped cream once.
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adhuin posted:That why you go to Europe for authentic cuisines. It's like taquerias in California. The best ones are the ones in the barrio that look like they're about to fall down.
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sticksy posted:https://twitter.com/EVYSTADIUM/status/1507146289926086665?s=20&t=Rpx6RCxyVT_84lHxiqSYNQ Lmao virgin chicken
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sticksy posted:https://twitter.com/EVYSTADIUM/status/1507146289926086665?s=20&t=Rpx6RCxyVT_84lHxiqSYNQ
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Grand Fromage posted:My favorite example of this was when a Korea goon got a baked potato with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Same goon also got tacos with whipped cream once. I ordered chips and salsa, but received taco-flavored doritos with thai sweet chili sauce ;_______;
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Shanghai is loving up their COVID response. As of 5am tomorrow morning, local China time, the districts of Pudonf and Puxi will lock down. I expect other districts to follow suit. How long before the National CCP comes in and busts heads ala Wuhan? Lol, the Expat subreddits are so whiny. They are like that one kid throwing a tantrum because the other countries let their citizens play outside.
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Grand Fromage posted:My favorite example of this was when a Korea goon got a baked potato with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. Dammit, that might actually work. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
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Forceholy posted:Shanghai is loving up their COVID response. As of 5am tomorrow morning, local China time, the districts of Pudonf and Puxi will lock down. I expect other districts to follow suit. How long before the National CCP comes in and busts heads ala Wuhan? a lot of the entitled expats in shanghai are p infuriating & funny rn. in my time in shanghai i met several who are p much anti vaxx (not just the chinese ones, over the summer I had a scottish dude who worked in finance simultaneously try to sell me NFTs and tell me the mRNA ones are actually the worst ones cuz brain control or whatever) and enjoyed the fact shanghai was open and had basically no covid for the last 2 years and are now freaking out. It's not cuz they have to lock down tho, as they're in swanky serviced apartments and have no real scarcity issues for food/etc, but for reasons like their ayi cant come to their apartment to watch their kids and cook or they can't go out to a bar. for the lockdowns themselves it seems to be like everything in china where you get 3 different stories from 3 different people depending on what street they live on. i have friends who are freaking out about it, friends who say their local shops were hosed up for like 1 day and are now p much normal, and people who basically say it's nbd and they aren't seeing anything like what the viral videos being shared are showing. weirdly its a friend of mine in pudong where the lockdowns were pretty sudden that is saying its all p fine, and in puxi where people have time to prepare people are being nuts.
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sticksy posted:https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1507128557000085515?s=21&t=aolJEvYzJ3x3rtwbWLQ4Uw Sorry for him. That airport is a loving dump.
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Ailumao posted:weirdly its a friend of mine in pudong where the lockdowns were pretty sudden that is saying its all p fine, and in puxi where people have time to prepare people are being nuts. Quite often the people make the crisis.
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I’m in Puxi and it’s pretty tough to get fresh vegetables. I’m waiting in a line that wraps halfway around the supermarket to weigh my two giant heads of cabbage, and most fresh stuff is already gone. I’ve seen a number of videos of fights in wet markets and delivery has been messed up to impossible for the whole time. Originally we were supposed to go into lockdown on the 1st, but shops around here apparently all got the order to close this afternoon, so I’m not sure whether that will happen early with residential communities as well.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:I’m in Puxi and it’s pretty tough to get fresh vegetables. I’m waiting in a line that wraps halfway around the supermarket to weigh my two giant heads of cabbage, and most fresh stuff is already gone. I’ve seen a number of videos of fights in wet markets and delivery has been messed up to impossible for the whole time. Originally we were supposed to go into lockdown on the 1st, but shops around here apparently all got the order to close this afternoon, so I’m not sure whether that will happen early with residential communities as well. expect it to start early, so you are not screwed if it does happen this is how incompetent gov officials create unnecessary fears with their own mistakes. reduce to zero case ya rear end.
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There are no lockdowns in Beijing yet, but apparently, we're getting weekly tests now. I'm teaching hybrid classes, so it is kind of a shitshow right now.
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Since we had the flood, I always act like poo poo could go down in an hour in China. After a trip around the block for supplies took hours, soaked, getting whatever scraps were left in a dark, hot supermarket. And I think that's a good way to do things wherever you are, you could get your whole block quarantined with a text message, fill a closet with those instant hotpots that cook themselves like MREs and ramen or whatever. We supposedly only had 2 cases with the last update but I got a text message that one place is now "code red immediately quarantine everyone" so, I guess it doesn't take much with COVID zero.
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I think that's pretty much every country outside of China anymore Deaths are acceptable as long as number goes up
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I think that's pretty much every country outside of China anymore i mean, that's sort of how we've rolled with influenza every year. difference by an order of magnitude, but it was hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. would be cool if we decided that we don't want even that many folks dying, but i think a lot of folks in charge just don't care as long as they can sell enough of the populace on it. btw, flu cases and deaths in japan were way down for the first year of the pandemic, dunno what it was like for the last one. masks and social distancing and sanitation are p drat effective.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Thailand has basically just decided to roll with it. So whats their policy? and will it affect tourists?
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Ups_rail posted:So whats their policy? and will it affect tourists? think you need proof of vaccine to get on the plane, but they dropped the PCR requirement pre-flight. You need to do one night of quarantine when you land while you wait for your PCR result to come back. I think you have to do an ATK a few days later. If you test positive it's still quarantine town for tourists. For everyone else is mostly just whatever you feel like. My school has us do ATKs twice a week, but if we're in close contact with someone who tested positive, including coworkers or students in our classes, they don't give a poo poo. You're only hospitalized at this point if your symptoms are extreme. Everyone else just stays home, but there's no real enforcement mechanism. Most poo poo in Bangkok is open as usual. Masks are still ubiquitous. Nightclubs are hopping. The concerning thing is that cases are still going up, or at least not coming down. The government seems to have decided 70-90 deaths a day is acceptable so long as they're mostly old and everyone else can recover at home. The goal seems to be herd immunity through universal infection. There's no thought to long-term consequence or effects from infection as far as I can tell.
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Is there any indication that travel bans were effective in any way, except for countries that did it right at the start and could stamp out homegrown cases? In my country they were always weeks too late and amounted to statistical tweaking of when a new wave would arrive in force
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For Thailand, yes to a degree, but once omicron hit it was game over. Exhaustion had set in and the economy was in shambles so welp.
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Grand Fromage posted:This is the most important thing I have ever or will ever post in this thread. I think it's the most important thing you will ever post.
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Vesi posted:European restaurants suck rear end, every place you go to has the same stuff; Pizza, Borscht and Crème brûlée I'm just so tired of it You mean "plain burgers, lovely pizza, and completely mystifying 'salads'"? I just spent a week in France and was overjoyed at the chance to actually eat a salad without an entire can of tuna slopped over it. e: oh my bad I read your post as complaining about generic restaurants in Europe. BUT STILL.
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Strategic Tea posted:Is there any indication that travel bans were effective in any way, except for countries that did it right at the start and could stamp out homegrown cases? They worked for a while for some island countries that were able to fully quarantine. But no, travel bans are popular whenever there's a disease going around but always ineffective. We went through this with ebola and swine flu and etc etc. The only real chance was if the Wuhan authorities had acted decisively as soon as it popped up instead of covering it up. It might have been possible to contain. After that if China as a whole had sealed the borders (really sealed, zero travel at all--one of those rare instances being authoritarian could've been useful) until it was contained then maybe. Once it got out into the wider world that was it. And it's possible it was so contagious that even those initial quarantines wouldn't have worked, but since they decided to lie about it instead of try we'll never know.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:You mean "plain burgers, lovely pizza, and completely mystifying 'salads'"? Extremely accurate for places that don't do good burgers (UK maybe), pizza (Italy) or salads (France or Greece). e: Kebabs are also everywhere but that's more street food than a restaurant meal. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Grand Fromage posted:They worked for a while for some island countries that were able to fully quarantine. But no, travel bans are popular whenever there's a disease going around but always ineffective. We went through this with ebola and swine flu and etc etc. The only real chance was if the Wuhan authorities had acted decisively as soon as it popped up instead of covering it up. It might have been possible to contain. After that if China as a whole had sealed the borders (really sealed, zero travel at all--one of those rare instances being authoritarian could've been useful) until it was contained then maybe. Once it got out into the wider world that was it. And it's possible it was so contagious that even those initial quarantines wouldn't have worked, but since they decided to lie about it instead of try we'll never know. Somewhere I read a very good article about the first case of SARS and how the World Health Organization director had a plan, got information from chinese doctors outside of the state. Then behind closed doors told china they would make an announcement or china could make it first. Also it seems the cities were the out breaks were happening and the WHO was advising people not to go to had the mayor of Vancouver saying "hey your stepping on my toes here telling people this stuff" Sadly for Sars part deux we had the WHO and The CCP do the whole face saving culture thing, plus the whole chinese new year travel. Honestly the Good who had the "movers just walked out story" from years ago really help me seeing how covid19 could be bungled.
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Ups_rail posted:Honestly the Good who had the "movers just walked out story" from years ago really help me seeing how covid19 could be bungled. The exact same thing happens over and over in PRC history. They bungled SARS the same way, we just got lucky that it wasn't all that contagious and didn't get out of control. But like the Great Leap Forward was exactly the same thing, local authorities lying and covering up because they don't want to get in trouble by reporting mistakes and it spirals out of control. It's a feature of authoritarian systems. E: PRC was unnecessary there, imperial China had the same problems. Any system will if you don't reward people for honest information instead of telling the boss what he wants to hear. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Lockdown stuff just Escalated Quickly where I live. Went from "be careful, but mostly normal and some students in schools" to "major roads closed stranding people between cities, entire communities walled off" within a few hours. All feeling very early 2020 right now. Fortunately, because this has been in the wind for a while, I'm all stocked up.
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The Great Autismo! posted:seems like a totally normal way to run a country for the next few years well, america
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