Coronavirus - Overall
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@paekakboyz yeah mate. Gut feel for me is hearing about how many have survived with no hospitalisation, the average age of deaths, the way msm use fear and editing to make money and 2 decades of watching how people of developing nations view and deal with the harsh realities of life and death.
I think my biggest point of difference is all those years living with people who've never taken life for granted and deal with tragedies in their stride.
Growing up in the west, 20 years in the east, 5 years back in the west and I think I'm in the unique position to see that "these westerners are fucken soft, safety obsessed and entitled". 😉
I was always the one crying the most at all the Thai funerals😁
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@siam said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Growing up in the west, 20 years in the east, 5 years back in the west and I think I'm in the unique position to see that "these westerners are fucken soft, safety obsessed and entitled".
Reading some of the comments on Taiwan and Singapore in the Covid NZ thread, I'm not sure if (parts of?) the East took the safety aspect of Covid less seriously. Sometimes with fewer lockdowns, but still very intense.
I wouldn't have liked to be caught in breach of a Wuhan lockdown
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@tim said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@donsteppa China locked down from about late January to late June. People who had gone home for new year were stuck there for months.
some manufacturing was back online in April
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@mariner4life yeah, they let some people who had been tested go back to work then, but it was after 3 months.
Most of the non-essential population was really locked down.
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@tim said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life yeah, they let some people who had been tested go back to work then, but it was after 3 months.
Most of the non-essential population was really locked down.
Yep. If the people I’ve heard from are any yardstick, it was the standards and enforcement of their lockdown that made the West look soft by comparison. Their lockdown ended up being (relatively!) short I guess, at least compared to the in-and-out that’s often happened elsewhere.
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Singapore are indeed back in lockdown. Schools closed gatherings of no more than 5. Borders closed. Tough shit if you already had a MIQ booking coz they've all been cancelled. Govt has asked everyone to stay home this weekend to avoid a circuit breaker total shut down.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Singapore are indeed back in lockdown. Schools closed gatherings of no more than 5. Borders closed. Tough shit if you already had a MIQ booking coz they've all been cancelled. Govt has asked everyone to stay home this weekend to avoid a circuit breaker total shut down.
Fuck!
How are they travelling on the vaccination front?
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo 167 cases in last 6 days. No deaths since December. 1.852 Mill received first dose 1.2 Mill both doses.
I mentioned it mainly to show it's not just Australasian governments who are twitchy.
Damn. That's a pretty decent outbreak for a country of 5m I guess.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo and Singers just announced total lockdown max group size of 2 until June 13
🤢🤢🤢
Even they are not spared clearly