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- d_gitale1
@monospace replying here because too much to write. quarantine is required at point of first entry. that is Shanghai for me. 'Hotel' staff is in hazmat-style suits, as was all cabin crew on the Air China flight by the way. My Quarantine hotel is in the middle of nowhere. far outsite of the city. I am not sure if it is a badly designed new construction or a hastily converted building. It feels unfinished and messy. when I arrived last night after traveling for 16 hours with only airplane snacks I was told 'no dinner tonight - you want instant noodles ?'
I also realized the room was cold so I complained about it. I was offered an additional blanket as the aircon heating is off. So I slept last night with socks and a sweater. Upon arrival I was given a thermometer to measure and report my temperature twice a day. In the morning I found some crappy breakfast pack in front of the door. apparently provided by China Eastern Airlines. One of the worst. I was just able to eat the yoghurt. When I went downstairs to ask for a solution regarding the heating they threatened me to call the police if I leave my room again. I have been in this hotel for less than 18 hours and I can only advise everyone: Do not come to China while quarantine is a requirement. At least QBN is accessable, even though it is missing a lot of embedded links eg Youtube. I have worked in China before and I already regret coming again.- haha well duhdeathboy
- yeah db it is shit. but the reward is normal life (and business) after quarantine. while other countries will bounce between social distancing and lockdown ind_gitale
- the forseeable futured_gitale
- Noticed it says in your profile you lived in BKK, that's where I am right now. They seem to have controlled the virus here almost without trying.yuekit
- ha shit ukit you not even US! Go wear short short and protest your leader in germany!
d-gitale ill wait to hear more. I think you may be a little to optamisticdeathboy - Not sure your standard of normal life. but i cant see most countries keeping it up. I actually wonder how many people copying the US and with US mainly doing itdeathboy
- for political reasons.deathboy
- monkey see monkey do. china trolled the shit out of us with the WHO for lack of infodeathboy
- I'm US just didn't see much value in flying back there when it's such a shitshow right now lolyuekit
- I love how Americans can't believe any country could have possibly done a better job than them.yuekit
- well i think us copy catting response to china was pretty shitty. same with most nations.deathboy
- for once i will say the swedes have done the best job. may eat shit in some stuff, but they have my blue ribbon as most rationaldeathboy
- and us is anyday more stable than thailand. shits a paradise. thailand is great for like a camping trip. gonna have to forego some typical necessities for advendeathboy
- ture. but nothing like the US conveniencesdeathboy
- @yuekit I have lived in Thailand for 7 years. in fact I am still renting a small house there right now. Love the placed_gitale
- Nice. I spent most of the first half of the year on Koh Phangan/Koh Samui. Kind of surreal place to be stuck during all of this craziness, but can't complainyuekit
- probably the best place on the planet to be stuck during all of this in my opinion :)d_gitale
- whatthefunk0
Exceptions From Wearing Face Masks Adopted In Romania
(Graf, you seem misinformed about the status of your own country, should spend more time reading up about your own region ffs)...People who are going out for a drink or to eat on the terraces, as well as those smoking, are allowed to take off their face mask.
At the same time, those who are doing individual sports activities (jogging including) are not compelled to wear the mask...
- lol well it would be pretty hard to eat or smoke with your mask on...
but I see what you're doing, nice try LOLgrafician - but to put everything in perspective for you, here even the homeless people wear masks ! comparing the US with Romania on the covid response is just silly for ugrafician
- also a friend of mine in Amsterdam he just tweeted he got a 100 euros ticket for riding his bike without a mask, show me the same in the US and I'll bite lolgrafician
- Curiously, one of the main groups of people here who I see not bothering with masks here in LDN is Romanians.
So. Ma-cho.Nairn - Admittedly they're not the sort of middle class cosmopolitan Romanians you probably associate with..Nairn
- Nairn send those macho Romanians back home, I bet they will wear masks here, you get stopped by the police if you're not wearing your mask, no joke!grafician
- Also is not about being cosmopolitan, it's about being decent, I guess in the US and the UK ppl don't bother, but in most of Europe...grafician
- @Nairn if you see those idiots not wearing masks just say to them "coae, poarta masca sau te trimitem acasa!"grafician
- which means in ruff translation "wear a fucking mask or we'll deport your ass back home!"grafician
- @graf NYC and other states in US fine for no mask for public and businesses. NYC homeless are wearing masks. Do you only read Fox news?!? Ya seem under informedwhatthefunk
- @wtf dude I'm telling you stop comparing US response to other countries, it's not even a comparison, you know it. NY or Cali reasonable states, but the rest?grafician
- Here wearing a mask in public transport and indoors is mandatory for months! common!grafician
- also I'm not being against the US on this, but the entire world is watching, you guys are not doing anything anymore, you won't get thru this like everybody elsgrafician
- stop being against me on this, vote Trump out, get Biden to do something, you have over 200k deaths commongrafician
- @graf Your experience is the worst, Romanians suffered more than anybody, ur life is most difficult - keep up the gate keeping, thoughts & prayers! Carry on...whatthefunk
- lol take care of yourself dude, cheers!grafician
- If you can breathe through a mask, you can smoke through a mask!! :)nb
- Hey graf...what city are you in? My mother was born in Bucharest.BusterBoy
- lol well it would be pretty hard to eat or smoke with your mask on...
- d_gitale6
just arrived in China and started my 14-day quarantine. All the actions I have seen being taken in western countries are dwarfed by what is going on here. It is of course horrible and feels like a dystopian nightmare, but it seems to be working.
- Interesting, how you can go to China right now? You have a job there?yuekit
- yes starting a new job with a company i worked for in the past. getting the visa was already difficult these timesd_gitale
- Where are you living for 2 weeks and what is it like?monospaced
- what part is "dystopian?" what part "seems to be working?"
thanks for reporting back! and stay safeKrassy - tell us more, pics?renderedred
- dystopian because you are surrounded by hazmat style suits. from boarding to quarantine. By friends, chinese and westerners, I am told that once you haved_gitale
- completed quarantine, there are no more restrictions. except masks on public transport. shops, clubs, cinemas etc. operate normally.d_gitale
- i would upload pictures, but internet is still shit where I am. I have not yet installed any VPN.d_gitale
- sted5
- Geez. Last I checked the Rona was 0.3umayport
- I note — with some disappointment, I'll admit — that fart particles aren't in that otherwise actually gorgeous infographic.Continuity
- I had no idea blood cell is comparable to the size of a grain of sand.yuekit
- not accurate. sand grain doesn't look 22x bigger than a blood cell.Beeswax
- that's because it's 8-9x bigger, which is what this shows, accuratelymonospaced
- white bloodcells way bigger than I expected.monNom
- grafician-3
"US pulls plan to give early vaccine to Santa Claus"
"The US has cancelled plans to offer Santa Claus performers early access to a coronavirus vaccine in exchange for their help in promoting it publicly.
Those who perform as Mrs Claus and elves would also have been eligible for the jabs.
The festive collaboration was part of a $250m (£192m) government campaign to garner celebrity endorsements of vaccinations once they are approved.
But health authorities confirmed the advertising campaign had been scrapped.
Ric Erwin, chairman of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas, called the news "extremely disappointing.""
- putin already gave his russia-approved vaccine to the actual santa claussarahfailin
- No Santa this year, thanks Trump.utopian
- grafician-1
"Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old as well as young adults"
"LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world’s leading COVID-19 experimental vaccines produces a immune response in both young and old adults, raising hopes of a path out of the gloom and economic destruction wrought by the novel coronavirus."
"The vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, also triggers lower adverse responses among the elderly, British drug maker AstraZeneca Plc, which is helping manufacture the vaccine, said on Monday."
- BusterBoy9
For all the garbage our Premier has copped, we've gone from over 700 new cases per day not too long ago to this.
But sure...America is rounding the corner beautifully.
- Holy smokes.nb
- The Victorian effort has been amazing.thumb_screws
- And this despite the Murdoch scum attempting to derail the process.BusterBoy
- Ultimate taking one for the team with lockdown.thumb_screws
- crazy how people accept such pointless draconian rules. lock down until what exactly? be interesting to see how much you sacrificed for nothing this winter anddeathboy
- next few yearsdeathboy
- So we can open up without fear of killing thousands, fuckboy.BusterBoy
- The dumb fucking American's will pray to their fake Gods and this will all go away like a miracle in 10 years or so.utopian
- Lock down to stop spread. It's that simple. DB wants to go to Applebee's because that's freedom.garbage
- FCK YEAH VICTORIA!!!! Smashed it!!!RoyBoyII
- What's fuck boy on about? lolpango
- I can finally go to the pub at 1am tomorrow for a beer! Better be no lineup!Sellies
- Oh and Deathboy, the lockdown was to better help with backtracing any infected people while keeping the numbers down. Look at the latest stats, its working!Sellies
- open up buster? exactly how do u think a germ just goes away. especially one of this nature? so exactly what is your gov plan? and at what cost?deathboy
- are we talking starvation to fight this disease (which data shows almost a nuthin burger)? What is the end game?deathboy
- and exactly how do you quantify the sacrifices of the many for the few?deathboy
- sellies looking at the latest stat and the "new waveers" after all protocol and lockdown it was just delaying the inevitable... which should have been obviousdeathboy
- it basically sounds as adaptable or more than a regular influenza. something which has had vaccines and pretty much nothin works. but sticks around. why is thisdeathboy
- different? you would think this common reasoning, but it seems it is not.deathboy
- what data shows the coronavirus is a nothing burger?monospaced
- whatthefunk0
Just a bit of history for you Graf...jfc
- dude chill, this is barely a lockdown, remember those militia boys taking over the Gov building demanding haircuts?!grafician
- Compared to Italy or Spain or even us here in Romania, the US lockdowns were a joke, how many states still impose them now in any capacity?grafician
- Here now we need to wear masks at all times, everywhere! Does any US state has mandatory mask wearing now? Enforced by police? Right.grafician
- Also, https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- "White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'"
So get a grip, stay safe!grafician - Graf - some states in the us have half the population of Romania and twice the number of cases and 3x the deaths. Maybe focus on yourwhatthefunk
- own little country with your own PSD disinformation with 41 percent of Romanians believing COVID-19 is a U.S.-made biological weapon...lolwhatthefunk
- Your global lack of understanding is juvenile, shortsighted, and frankly just dumb as shit. In NYC and the rest of the North East of the US we've flattened thiswhatthefunk
- curve b/c of lockdowns, so much shit is still closed, your level of ignorance is stunning, then again, I'm not surprised considering.whatthefunk
- So you chill with your dumb af posts, jfc already, give everyone a rest with your dumb shit, it's getting tiring to say the leastwhatthefunk
- zaq2
18 of the top 20 states with the highest cases per million residents voted for trump in 2016
- Where did you find that list? Looks different when I look (missing CA for example).formed
- https://www.worldome…. click "Tot Cases 1 m pop" to sortzaq
- Totesnb
- From 220,000 dead to 230,212 dead in less than 4 days. - USA #1utopian
- Chris Christie didn’t wear a mask around Trump because he is a bootlicker and he didn’t have the courage to because he knew Trump wouldn’t like it. That’s theneverscared
- death cult. Self interested. Stupid. Reckless. Shameless. And their behavior leads to mass casualties.neverscared
- Voting for Hillary was basically a wash, to be fair.section_014
- Liberal hoaxmonospaced
- aka stupid peoplemekk
- BusterBoy8
The school in Melbourne that has sparked a new cluster won't have hand sanitiser on site because it contains alcohol and is not compatible with their religious ethos.
Get fucked then and close the school. I don't care about your fairy beliefs.
- grafician-7
"Last month, artists @heidihankaniemi and @plannedalism took personal protective equipment to the next level when they crafted their own face mask formal wear for a performance that took them all over New York City."
via @artnet
- shellie1
There were actually disinfectant wipes at my grocery store. I have some lysol wipes I bought on the internet for the second surge for way too much, so I took the opportunity to stock up because I have a feeling there will be a rush on supplied in a month or two and prices will go through the roof. I hate what this pandemic is doing to my general buying habits.
On the flipside, my building gave each apartment a gallon of hand sanitizer. although its more watery than I would prefer, I couldn't be more thrilled.
- Don't forget to stockpile on toilet paper.utopian
- I'm not kidding!utopian
- I never buy toilet paper by the 4 pack anymore. just bought a 16 pack. if toilet paper starts disappearing, I'll have plenty if runway to order onlineshellie
- I just finally ran through all the TP I bought in March which took me from March to October. Crazy!shellie
- utopian0
Grocery stores are preparing for a second wave of panic buying — you should, too
Some grocers say they're starting to experience round two of panic shopping.
- NBQ003
This second wave is going to be even worse than first one. Already high numbers and not even winter yet. Going to be a rocky winter. Cannot imagine countries not doing lockdown’s again.
- on a good note, a lockdown during winter is easier as people already spend lots more time at home, pretty sure we'll see nightly lockdowns after 9-10PMgrafician
- Living in New York I’m hopeful that this area will not go as high as it did early on.OP31
- Gonna be a right cunt if there's tight lockdown for xmas and families can't get together.microkorg
- At the beginning of a 6 week lockdown in Ireland. Only essential shops open. No travel more than 5k from home. No visitors from other families to home / garden.mort_
- here we go again...grafician
- hyggejonny_quest_lives
- I think there will be civil unrest in a lot of countries. Already happening in Italy
https://twitter.com/…yuekit - America is in wave 3
https://i.imgur.com/…drgs - We should move Xmas to the summer. Would be better on so many levels. I’d rather work through the winter and take time off in summer.shapesalad
- lol shape, can never tell if you are seriousfadein11
- I genuinely despise Christmas so it’s the last thing I’m thinking about wrt covid.mort_
- Gardener3
- Jesus Cruisin' Christ.Continuity
- Thank jebus christians have a sense of humour_niko
- Someone's going to get beheaded for this.BusterBoy
- Either the buttock's in the wrong place or signs your getting oldFax_Benson
- Turning the other cheekdrgs
- Must ... resist ... 'shopping ... set's face ... on .. there ...Continuity
- Ramanisky25
On HULU
- Is it really worth the watch? As in, is there anything new about the virus or how they handle it that we don't know?Maaku
- If you’ve been following the news and press conferences on the daily since Feb then no not really. But all in all, it’s a well made Doc.Ramanisky2
- Which news are u following is a better questiondeathboy
- neverscared0
- Uff, Czech Rep ...
And Lichtenstein, wtf?Continuity - Well Liechtenstein only has about 36k citizens. Lot of cross pollination via Austria and Switzerland. They're shutting down once again. Das Volk is anxious.dasohr
- Countries that posted record cases this week: USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, Swiss, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary...yuekit
- Yeah. This winter is going to suck giant horse cocks. I can't see us not having lockdowns again.Continuity
- Err ... it's everywhere, pango ...Continuity
- Oops. Wrong thread.Continuity
- Uff, Czech Rep ...
- yuekit1
USA reported 74,000 cases yesterday, France reported 41,000.
And actually many countries in Europe are seeing record number of cases. Meanwhile here in Asia the numbers are still very low.
Is it safe to say the weather does have a significant impact as people guessed early on? If so I wonder how bad it will get during the really cold months.
- When it's cold, you stay home weekends + evenings... so less people mixing might actually reduce cases.shapesalad
- Looking at things from France, I wouldn't say weather makes any difference. Most people around me wear masks where mandatory but are super lax otherwisespl33nidoru
- They will meet friends for dinner or drinks (hence the curfew now), no masks during most meetings as considered inconvenient, and companies don't encourage WFHspl33nidoru
- Hardly ever see anyone washing their hands unless made to, they'll touch everything though and keep messing with their masks, they don't get simple instructionsspl33nidoru
- ^ yeah it's almost like the mask become a virus collecting surface which the user then wipes hand over when fiddling with it.shapesalad
- Yeah obviously there are a million different factors but the record numbers in so many northern countries at once is what makes me wonder.yuekit
- I think it comes down to people being tired of it + the illness not being scary enough (it's no ebola). Imho a vaccine is our only way out of this.spl33nidoru
- still lots of suckers hanging in bars getting drunk , hugging and singing.. 60% of infections are in private meetings in austria..no one gives a shit anymore.neverscared
- lockdown coming.neverscared
- It's the same thing in Germany. People ignoring social distancing in queues, wearing a mask, but only over their mouths on public transport ...Continuity
- ... and we've added 11k cases daily two days in a row.Continuity
- And Marcus Söoder has already warned people in Bavaria a couple of days ago that a lockdown is coming, unless people get their shit together.Continuity
- *Markus Söder, christ.Continuity
- We closed the country for like 100 cases back in Spring, now we rock 5000 cases daily and masks are mandatory everywhere, everything closed too...oh wellgrafician
- "When it's cold, you stay home weekends + evenings... so less people mixing might actually reduce cases" you don't have a clue how viruses work do you?fadein11
- but more indoor going out coz of cold is more important .neverscared
