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Vietnam, which was under Chinese occupation centuries ago and contests Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea, has particularly fraught relations with China.But it is not alone in the region.Over 60% of respondents to a poll of Southeast Asian officials, academics and other professionals said in a survey this month that they distrusted China. Nearly 40% said they thought China was “a revisionist power and intends to turn Southeast Asia into its sphere of influence”. The survey did not mention the virus.
I feel like this might've been a thing before the latest epidemic out of the PRC:
No doubt. Did you get out okay today? We were worried about you.https://twitter.com/melissahoyer/status/1223003300548624386
The concern is appreciated, but I'm not in Sydney.I think Australia's population is really on edge over this virus even if it's not really spoken out loud. People saying that they're avoiding parts of the city known for large Chinese populations, constant reports in the media about suspected cases, and people wearing masks out on the street.
https://twitter.com/IsChinar/status/1223003513845886976
Can we all admit this is not a happening and it's over? There have been white people get this and survive it without medical attention. It seems to only be effecting Asians and only killing old people with preexisting medical conditions. This was just another fake and gay happening and I'm glad i didn't waste muh sheckles panic buying Bakker Buckets and Tangy Tangerine.
As much as I appreciate the attempt to lend a local flavor to the metaphor I have to protest: a dragon is not a beast of burden. While a camel humping straw must have been an occasional sight in certain areas of the globe (and I suspect it reflects a Western taste for Oriental or faux-Oriental proverbs, like Confucius say and Sun Tzu, and further why a camel and not the ass which was more usual in those parts?) a rice-hauling dragon is a new one on me. I can think of a lot better use for one that proved biddable.I think the Chinese have always had so many people that the use of draft animals was superfluous, and maybe it is simple unfamiliarity that produces this ungainly image. I suppose the rice to be in large baskets rather than sacks, if it can be added by the grain, perhaps one on each side. Didn't Chinese dragons fly? You would have rice everywhere, even if you could persuade one to schlep it for you.
You gotta cut Phd. Harry some slack. His country is coming apart at the seams. Stress of the moment and what not....................
Holy balls - Some damn good trolling out there in the world. https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message4239933/pg1223#77436342
This is certainly nice to know."No, drinking bleach will not ward off coronavirus... "https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2020/jan/30/tweets/no-drinking-bleach-will-not-ward-coronavirus/Especially, if Noory or Clyde start plugging Clorox as a sponsor.
Can't bother with Harvard Boy at this time. Now we got inbound Wuhan Death raids:https://twitter.com/wildgooseLIVE/status/1223032620482732034Plus dudes trying to plug epidemiological models into a spreadsheet. I've never followed one of these kind of things closely before. Jesus. Is it always like this?
I feel like this might've been a thing before the latest epidemic out of the PRC:Anti-China sentiment spreads along with coronavirushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-sentiment/anti-china-sentiment-spreads-along-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZT1B6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufXalgCOBA
I'm thinking that Huawei is behind this whole flu thing as payback for Canada pinching its Chief Financial Officer at the behest of the U.S. Inscrutable oriental minds are at work here. Just sayin'.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdfTl;drHIV virus insertions found in Corona virus - adding to suspicions of virus being man made..
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1aLSvZUfvXZpoZyTL7fkng
So I've gone so far down the virus doom tunnel that I thought I'd check on what The Master's thoughts were on the matter. When I go to his channel in Youtube, my anti-virus kicks in and tries to keep the contagion out. What if it got thru? I'm scared Bellgab. Hold me................It doesn't block other youtube channels. Senda's link has Corona-chan!Code: [Select]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1aLSvZUfvXZpoZyTL7fkng
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-51309347
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxoyQyYxmg
Meh. Why watch an apparently learned gentleman that may actually know what he is about when you can watch this toad live?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgybgrq-_ZU
Often I ignore "new" news and just revisit old Art programs, and others, and when I feel like Nero put on an old Phil Hendrie and laugh as it burns. Guest transporting a monkey "as a favor, to make ends meet" -or something- who got sick due to "contact." "Contact" evolved as bit goes on. During first Ebola scare. Amazing. Nurse call ins. Story develops. Angry callers about public safety. But trucker worried about "guvmint quarantining him" and, later, "embarassment."
It is never a good thing when Arky shows up at the front door[tweet]1223409590739460097[/tweet]
