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I was in Fuzhou, China when the Wuhan outbreak happened. I was working a English language center job that went online for five months. I thought it was peaceful. I learned how to cook, played a ton a video games and got back into reading. I was going to go back to the US to study, but then I got a job at a bilingual school where I also got my teaching license, which I used to get an even better job last school year. Living in the Zero COVID bubble wasnt bad at first. Sure, you had to get tested every few days and God forbid if you were unfortunate enough to be at the same place as a positive case, but it truly felt like it was 2019 at times. Then, it got dropped last December and your boss gets pissed if you don't show up to work despite coughing up half a lung every few minutes. Covid has helped me grow personally, but it's made me more distrustful of other people and individuals. It's amazing how folks will hold the simultaneous beliefs that it is just the flu while also being a bioengineered viral weapon that justifies hostility towards China.
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Toxic Mental posted:Didn't they nuke the English teaching scene in China though? The Language Center Scene, yes. Dancing English monkey jobs are extinct in China now. A lot of those centers are now after school programs and they employ either Chinese or foreigners outside of the big 7. Hell, even online English supplemental programs are banned. Bilingual and International schools are fine for now, but the pandemic and government interference have had impacts. Because of double reduction, We're not supposed to give written homework to grade 3 or below. This has caused writing levels among students to just drop like a stone.
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Jul 22, 2023 20:52
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Every zombie movie from now on has to have zombie denialists. The now canceled show, Avenue 5, aired this scene weeks before the first COVID cases were found in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXaeucDYHo
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Jul 24, 2023 03:58
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Toxic Mental posted:Literally anyone who dies from now until all the people who ever lived during covid are going to be blamed on vaccines. I once saw a retweet of an escort on Twitter who said that she would stop taking vaccinated clients because their "shedding" was making her sick. Incredible. So the pandemic has turned my dad from a somewhat conservative immigrant guy to a full blown small business tyrant libertarian. Opposes vaccine mandates, wants to move out of a California due to regulations and taxes (the way he runs the family business is a little shady), believes that immigrants should come here legally (nevermind that my mom and him crossed the Mexican border without papers). He had a LOT of free time during the pandemic and he disappeared into the Facebook/Youtube conspiracy hole. It's like the Leopards eating Faces party meme was made for him. Many such cases.
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Jul 26, 2023 09:54
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The lockdowns in China did break some brains out there. I wasn't in Shanghai, but those lockdowns last spring could have been better. The government dragged it's feet on food distribution and they could have used that time to vaccinate their citizens or implement HEPA filtration in public places, but no. One effect of the lockdowns, anti mask and "Immunity Debt" theories, from what I see, have a stronger hold in China than in the US. Hell, a Shanghai Daily reporter posted that flawed cockrane review on masks.
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Jul 27, 2023 01:28
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Mistle posted:Alex Jones was the original inspiration for "conspiracy theory nut on the radio" from Deus Ex, it's kinda his shtick, so I don't know if his brain broke or not over covid. Nah, it was just a new grift for him.
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Aug 2, 2023 20:55
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:anti vax guys seeing people on the news die and thinking immediately "oh wow, bet he was vaxed... wonder if that had anything to do with it Shoutout to r/hermancainaward
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Earwicker posted:well they did but like, factionally. i mean the way wearing masks and social distancing was immediately turned into a political/culture war issue was absolutely loving insane Denial is a virtue now
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