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  I hope you're OK there. Maybe step back from Reddit for a bit and take a breather or go for a walk if it's nice outside.
context: You are in China? >
  
  They are an American working for a Chinese company in Shanghai apparently. >
  
  This is more common than you think. China actually owns a lot of our country - a handful of Chinese conglomerates own $120 billion in American assets. Everything from food production and farming to entertainment and movie theaters.
  It's unfortunate that the only people who seem to actually be concerned about this are right-wing pundits who are typically actually being paid by those exact same Chinese firms. Namely a colossal asshole whose name rhymes with "Cucker Tarlson". I, for one, am not comfortable with the products of American labor being sold off to a foreign dictatorship, but I'm also certainly not going to join the team that whines about how M&M's aren't sexy anymore. >
  
  
  the team that whines about how M&M's aren't sexy anymore.
  
  I...I think I missed something. >
  
  Oh I'm so very sorry to have to be the one to tell you about this debacle.
  Tucker Carlson has an ongoing segment decrying how M&M's have "gone woke" and was particularly upset that the green and brown M&M's now have less sexy designs. >
  
  What in the fuck is wrong with this planet >
  
  900 million is only slightly less than the official CCP estimate of 5,000 cumulative cases since  2020 >
  
  It’s gonna increase even more with CNY around the corner >
  
  Yeah, largest annual human migration in the world. If covid isn't already ravaging the rural towns and smaller cities across China, it's just about to. There's no way people won't return to their families, even if it means expanding the spread of the virus. It's simply too ingrained in Chinese culture.
  CCP have been lying about numbers since the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately, for them misinformation and obfuscation is the rule, not the exception. >
  
  Man it’s just crazy reading these exact same sentiments from last year. Not diminishing anything you said, but it really does seem like we will go through this global surge once a year, get a new mutated strain from china, and have it insipidly wreak havoc in waves until the following years surge. 
  What the hell do we do to break this cycle? >
  
  CCP working with the West to use the West's vaccine would be a start. >
  
  Oh the CCP would love to use western vaccines, on the conditions we allow them access to the facilities where it's made. Then they can simply make it themselves, using technology they'd copy from those facilities. 🧐 >
  
  Which is just plain weird imo. The West would be giving them lifesaving medicine that they desperately need right now. CCP is in no position to be making conditions in return for that help. >
  
  Have you seen the guy who goes to McDonald's and takes a hundred ketchup packets and plastic cutlery back to his luxury car?
  That's China. >
  
  And culturally has evolved into thinking that it’s totally okay behavior >
  
  "What?  I'm a paying customer." >
  
  didn't realize how big china was before seeing the title saying 900million people and 60% in one sentence >
  
  If you’re one-in-a-million, there’s 1,412 people in China just like you >
  
  Now i feel bad for those strangers. >
  
  don't worry you're not one in a million /s >
  
  That means there are even more strangers to be worried about >
  
  A lot of people are going to die :(
  My mother, her sister, and her brother, all died within a span of 6 months before vaccines existed. >
  
  Im 41 and i had a bag case of Long-Covid lasting 6-7 months. Life was hell. I was vaccinated twice as i got it in November 2021. 
  I get mad when people still say the pandemic was a fraud and nothing but a mild cold. This 70 yr old guy at my gym wanted to lecture me about Covid two weeks ago. It was so hard not to slap him some senses of reality. (I did not, i just cut him off and said i dont wanna hear it).
  My condolenses to you. >
  
  This is why I don't talk to people at gyms. >
  
  Come to think of it, I’ve had several weirdos approach me at gyms and want to talk about whacky politics or some other bullshit. What is it about gyms? >
  
  Saying this as someone who goes to the gym 250+ times a year. Average person who gyms often is an idiot. There's a lot of normal intelligent people, but idiots are overrepresented. I'd guess gym atracts people who are narcistic, not very social, very vain. Good predictors of being a dumbo. >
  
  This right here. I'm really big into working out/fitness, etc, and always have been playing sports my whole life. That said, I tend to not to talk to anyone in gyms because a majority are idiots. Then, they see someone who can throw weights around like them and wanna chat it up and it immediately devolves into a dumb fucking conversation about what the fuck ever. I think they see someone like me and want to find similarities and I just want to start every conversation with "I know it may look it but I don't share the same prejudices as you." And put my headphones back in. >
  
  I can always tell when someone is going to try and talk to me at the gym. I just try not to make eye contact because that is usually when they commit. Same with guys who need a spotter. I know I look big and can throw around a decent amount of weight, but I'm not good at knowing when you want me to grab the weight and my back is all sorts of fucked up. So if I tweak it while trying to pick up a weight that is obviously way too heavy for you to be lifting alone, you will have to carry my ass out of here. >
  
  Is this why the "population of India to surpass China" date keeps sliding closer? >
  
  Nah, it's because Indians kno how to... checks notes, "get down"! >
  
  What is this a reference to? I had this weird Deja vu where every time I see these comments about india surpassing chinas population someone says this exact thing. I feel like im losing my mind seriously please help me im freaking out. Its happened 3 or 4 times now and each time I remember the other times it happened. This is like the strongest deja vu I get. I dont understand whats happening >
  
  News headlines the other day just stating that the population of India will be larger than that of China's >
  
  No the check notes thing and "indians know how to get down" the first time all of this happened was like 2 years ago >
  
  Well if it's any consolation, I was gonna say "fuck" - but then realised that would break the infinite reddit comment loop. >
  
  No this makes it feel like im going insane. If it isnt a reference to some media or something I have no idea why this exact comment section and its replies have happened 3 or 4 times over the past 2 years and I saw all of them. And each time its like "heres the india surpassing china check notes indians get down thing again"