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  certain people will only adhere to the last sentence. That was so blatant that congress made  a new law to fix security cameras.
context: Have we all just gone through a Time Machine? >
  
  ROFL maybe, we are back to early 2020 >
  
  Oh no, not again. >
  
  Time to stock up on toilet paper, Ramen, and instant yeast. >
  
  My wife bought a 10lb bag of flour. We still have a 10lb bag of flour. >
  
  10.1lbs if you're not storing it properly >
  
  They’ll have to pick the lesser of two weevils >
  
  I watch that movie every year. >
  
  It is incredible. I was bored to tears when I watched it as a kid, at 30 it is the greatest naval movies of all time. >
  
  I love a fuzzy naval >
  
  wait wait ive seen this one already >
  
  Lazy writing. When is this show going to cancelled? >
  
  Noo no this new one has a crazy new twist at the end, just watch >
  
  Bruh they clowned on us last time with the murder hornets...like you introduce them and then never mention it again.
  The writers need some consistency smh >
  
  Ah yes, Chekhov's murder hornets, just biding their time... >
  
  To be fair… it is the winter >
  
  Wait till Chinese New Year at the end of January when everyone travels to celebrate with their families. Thats when infections will really find their stride. >
  
  Yep. My work is somewhat tied to sourcing from China. I have no interest in visiting there for at least another few years and I’m glad that I don’t have any big purchases coming up because it’s likely to get ugly over there post-CNY. The biggest annual migration on earth mixed with opening the floodgates of a failed COVID Zero policy and an inferior homemade vaccine. With only two doses and no updated boosters. 
  It’s going to get bad and China doesn’t do half-measures with their public policy. It’s either COVID Zero or COVID Everybody. >
  
  A computer chip in my 12 year old car went out, and there was no ETA when the part would be available due to supply chain issues. I bit the bullet and bought a brand new car, only because brand new made more financial sense than new used in this upside down world. I guess I'm using "financial sense" loosely here, because I still paid out the nose for it. 
  Last week, a critter crawled into the engine (it has less than 500 miles on it) and chewed through the engine harness. No ETA on this part either because...you guessed it: supply chain issues. I really hope that the dealer is able to source it before my rental is due back cuz if not, I guess we're switching to bicycles for commuting and errands and Ubers for appointments outside of reasonable biking distance. 
  Funny thing is that I grew up in Detroit and went to college in Flint. If we would have kept manufacturing primarily in the rust belt, not only would those cities be vibrant rather than smoldering husks, but perhaps my family wouldn't have gotten laid off en masse 15 years ago, and maybe...just maybe...I wouldn't be in the transportation pickle I've found myself in the last few months. >
  
  What?? Emphasizing American manufacturing and the American dollar? What are ya, some kind of socialist?!  (/s for the morons) >
  
  China went from 0 covid to 100% covid almost overnight. My brother lives there. He said it was funny because one day everything was closed because they were in lockdown. Then they lifted the lockdown, everyone went out in the streets, partying, going to stores. Then almost immediately following, stores started closing again because everyone was sick. everything closed, everything open, right back to closed. >
  
  I live in China. It is like this. Except not quite. Things are struggling because lots of people are sick, but I wouldn't say everything closed. BTW I currently have covid, 5 years here and as soon as it gets lifted it's tearing through.
  Nobody seems to understand that they literally just lifted everything like in one day. >
  
  Yeah I think he was exaggerating when he said everything, just that lots of shops were closed because of how many people were sick >
  
  No, a shit ton is closed. Without lock downs, revenues in the food industry are hitting fresh new lows. Lots of closures, people worried, etc… it’s a shit show. >
  
  Expect the UK to close their borders by say… April
  Edit: *to passengers from China. >
  
  Doubt it. Maybe require Covid negative test for people from certain locations. >
  
  Agreed. From my understanding it's just an Omicron variant in China, but China is poorly vaccinated and thier vaccine doesn't work well against it. Meanwhile most of the rest of the world already has been hit by omicron and has better vaccines. If accurate it kind of shows how bad Omicron could have been for all of us had we not gotten various stages of vaccines.
  China just went Zero Covid lockdowns with no long term plan nor a viable vaccine, yet refusing the help from the west with our vaccines, and now it's spreading fast and they're paying the price. >
  
  Why is China so poorly vaccinated? Is it a money thing, because they seem to have been overly brutal in their ways of stopping the spread. >
  
  Not entirely sure. Heard it's a mix of a distrust of the government, the government also not pushing or promoting for vaccinations hard, and a general reliance on alternative remedies rather than "western" science. 
  Plus the vaccine China developed is apparently so bad it's near worthless against omicron anyway, so guessing any citizen in the know would say what's the point. And China's government is for some reason being too proud to accept the West's better vaccine options. >
  
  At this point just take the Western vaccine and claim you developed it or some shit. I don't care as long as people get it >
  
  I might be wrong but I thought China wanted to setup domestic production of Moderna vaccine and required technology transfer of the MRNA vaccine as a part of the distribution deal. Negotiations broke down because of that stipulation and here we are >
  
  52% of passengers on flight from China to Italy have COVID so far. >
  
  First time in Vegas Golden Knights history >
  
  Haha. Love that this appears randomly in a non hockey sub years later. 
  Maybe Nashville should hang a banner for it! >
  
  The maple leafs are getting fined for this >
  
  And we have a delayed response just like before. The infected are pouring out of China NOW, so the US implements travel restrictions starting Jan 5… 8 days from now. Let’s give it 8 days to spread during a busy travel season before requiring clear tests. It’s dumbfounding. >
  
  Hopefully they're flying Southwest >
  
  I snorted. Good one. But as the joke on Twitter says : what's the difference between Covid and Southwest? Covid is airborne. 🤦🏾‍♀️ >
  
  Also snorted >
  
  The timing of this is crazy. It’s like we’ve gone back to the beginning. >
  
  Except that hospitalizations are down from 2020 and most people aren't having severe cases >
  
  Not in China, they're basically all circa early 2019 people with bodies that are completely naive to covid. 
  Really tragic that they didn't make the pivot from closures by launching a strong vaccination campaign then opening w/ not just their vaccines but mRNA ones. 
  Being closed forever was basically the plan and it is absolutely unreal that this was unforeseen. >
  
  This whiplash transition seems ill planned for sure.  A better vaccine campaign or massive mobilization of health care, they basically had two years to plan “what do we do” when lifting the restrictions they had. >
  
  That is the problem with authoritarian governments, why checks and balances are a good thing and why propping China up with economic interdependence is not in our best interests. 
  China has ample recent history with their authoritarianism leading to disastrous results, like their one-child policy and the Four Pests campaign. 
  Their COVID response is no different and will undoubtedly lead to yet another variant that will sweep across the globe and fuck up the supply chain again. >
  
  When they first started zero covid in '20 I was impressed... but as mRNA vaccines emerged on the scene and China did not focus on vaccinating its elderly even with its own less efficacious vaccines I was in disbelief that the CCP thought it preferable just to seemingly do this forever without an exit strategy.
  Nobody is really monday morning quarterbacking here, plenty of people were calling this dumb >
  
  Meanwhile the CCP propaganda arm has been churning away shitting on foreign vaccines and praising how the CCP has handled COVID. Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost at the cost of their citizens. >
  
  Babe wake up, the covid sequel just dropped >
  
  Probably more of a reboot than pure sequel >
  
  Reboot? It's not even over yet >
  
  So.. 48% healthy! That's almost 50% of a win!
  And 100% bad news... >
  
  48% are 100% Covid free!
  Win! >
  
  48% covid free FOR NOW >
  
  He means they just got COVID for free >
  
  How many hours is that flight? Pretty sure that number will be 100% before they land. >
  
  9hrs 13min, according to Google. Nice incubator they got there. >
  
  Why would they lift the travel ban during the peak of their crisis? >
  
  China went hardcore on lock down for too long and started facing protests and riots that weren’t being easily quelled by police.  So they just said fuck it.  As long as Covid doesn’t mutate into something our current vaccinations can handle, I doubt the rest of the developed world will see a rise in deaths from this as Covid is already here.  Most of our population either has vaccinated enough or we have herd immunity to an extent from years of bullshit.  So far with each mutation or Covid-19, the deadliness has gone down while how contagious it is has gone up.  Generally viruses of this nature don’t mutate into something more deadly like plague inc. >
  
  
  So far with each mutation or Covid-19, the deadliness has gone down while how contagious it is has gone up. Generally viruses of this nature don’t mutate into something more deadly like plague inc.
  
  Pretty sure that’s not true. From the WHO website:
  
  Delta caused more severe disease than other variants in people who weren’t vaccinated. Early studies from Scotland and Canada, both cited by the CDC, suggested Delta was more likely to result in hospitalization in the unvaccinated. A report in the Lancet this past summer found that people in England had double the hospitalization risk with Delta than they did with Alpha >
  
  Yup. As long as virulence increases faster than lethailty, the virus variant has an evolutionary advantage over its previous version.
  If covid could give you a violent cough that tears up your lungs and kills you, that would kill off infected patients. But the “benefit” to the virus is the coughing spreading many times more viral particles than without the cough.
  Overall it would be a net benefit. There is no reason to assume that all viruses evolve by becoming less lethal and more transmissible. >
  
  That only matters if the incubation period is short. And with COVID, some strains can be quite long. 
  Hypothetically, the virus could lay dormant inside of it’s host for a week and a half, be contagious, transmit itself to 5-6 new hosts and then kill off the original. >
  
  Ah shit, here we go again...... >
  
  This is good news for all the FAANG companies, they saw record highs. Meta, Netflix, Amazon, Google. They're ready for round two. >
  
  "Remember our record profits? We'll in the all new COVID 2.0 were gonna shatter those numbers with our twice in a lifetime unprecedented times pandemic special!"
  -corporations >
  
  Was this discovered in Italy after they landed?! >
  
  Yeah, Italy started testing all passengers from China upon arrival this week >
  
  Shouldn’t they test them before departure? This defies all logic. I assume they’re in quarantine at least. >
  
  China doesn't give a fuck if contagious people are leaving the country. >
  
  Thats literally how the world got Covid at first in 2020 >
  
  I e heard they prevented some people from traveling to other regions inside china in 2019, but allowed them to leave. >
  
  Yeah, that’s why it’s called 19. Some people think that’s a just a random number. >
  
  We’ve had one pandemic, yes, but what about second pandemic? And elevenzies? >
  
  I don't think they know about second pandemic, Pip >
  
  
  I don't think they know about second pandemic, Pip
  
  What about Epidemics? Pestilence? Plagues? War? Meteor impact? They know about them, don't they? >
  
  Welcome to December 2019, baby!
  This is the shit-timeline version of Groundhog Day. >
  
  From zero Covid policy to all Covid policy. >
  
  As always…the UK will be monitoring the situation….until it’s too late to act >
  
  Not even sure they’re monitoring anymore… :/ >
  
  why in the hell are people letting these flights in?  wtf is this >
  
  The answer, as it so often is, is "money" >
  
  The terrible nightmare of 2020 is coming to Italy. >
  
  Part deux. >
  
  Part *due >
  
  Chinese gov are saying that restrictions should be science based, and west are fear-mongering. The lack of self awareness is quite funny considering they went from zero covid to wide open quite rapidly due to protests. >
  
  Didn't they say that before? Deja vu >
  
  Brb getting toilet paper! >
  
  Just invest in a bidet.  I did back in 2020 when the toilet paper was starting to disappear.  Single best bathroom purchase ive ever made. >
  
  Correction, single best purchase I've ever made >
  
  We've learned fucking NOTHING in three goddamn years.
  Maybe nature accidentally came up with an indirect solution for climate change. >
  
  I recall that Louie Ck bit, not long ago.
  Paraphrasing: we were told if we go out, millions will die. And alot of us said 'oh I'm going out. I'm going now and a lot.' and millions died.
  Cracked me up and made me cry a little >
  
  The reality is that the two vaccines developed in China are far less efficacious than the mRNA vaccines. Let's hope agreements can be made to bring those in. >
  
  I'm shocked they don't jusy steal the IP and make their own. Im sure they have the pharma manufacturing power to make them in China. >
  
  Remember 15-20 years ago when "nanotechnology" was the hit buzz word that was supposed to revolutionize science and medicine and then nothing ever seemed to come of it? 
  Well we finally got to it. mRNA vaccine technology is an example of that cutting edge nanotechnology. It is as sci fi as it gets, and is pretty damn hard to "copy". Few people on the planet understand the wizardry behind the process and equipment and Biontech and Moderna basically already hired up all the brightest minds in relevant fields globally in their own effort to bring these vaccines to existence.
  Even with heavy guidance it would take many years to bring production online there, they don't really have any relevant expertise institutionally. The vaccines they manufacture are a completely different animal, it's like the difference between manufacturing a kids bicycle and an F-35 Lighting >
  
  Except it's not really nanotech, though. The mRNA strands aren't "smart" or reactive in any way. They just trigger the body's immune system and tell it what proteins it should look out for. >
  
  It's not worth it. People around here are determined mRNA and LNP technology are too advanced for our pea brains. >
  
  I just get suspicious because this line potentially feeds into the whole "secret nanotech that tracks you for Bill Gates / gives you the Mark of the Beast" crap. When... no, that's not even slightly how it works. >
  
  Yea and the claim that "Few people on the planet understand the wizardry behind the process and equipment" is downright laughable >
  
  The other 48% had it after landing. >
  
  It's simply surreal to see China just do a massive U turn from being at the forefront of quarantine measures against Covid one month to suddenly being ready to lift all restrictions the next month >
  
  Because the horse is out of the barn. >
  
  They're just trying to prove a point. That they were right to keep locking up. But where they messed up is the quality of their vaccines. And how only 40% of their 80+ year olds are vaxxed. >
  
  I’m not a fan of this sequel. >
  
  Umm. 
  You guys do know this is why Milan, Italy was one of the original hot spots, don’t you?
  It was all the fashion/garment industry factory workers returning to work from Holiday trips home in China. >
  
  Then it jumped to Automotive managers because FCA travels back to Detroit from Italy. Then it's in the heavy traveling executives that fly that bounce it all over the country. >
  
  Why dont we learn? ban all flights coming from covid hot spot nations. >
  
  South Park said it best "Fuck the Chinese government" >
  
  Hey look up The Simpsons predictions, very strange. >
  
  It's not so strange when you consider how many episodes there are and things that people were not fully aware of ie Trump wanting yo run for president LONG before he actually did >
  
  He had been saying that he intended on running in the late 80s. >
  
  You cant stop it. If there is gonna be a new variant its gonna get out. It only takes one person to spread it. Stay healthy. Stay boosted. Wear a mask. Be sensible. Epstein didnt kill himself.