In its zealous effort to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown, compelling the State Department to take drastic measures to protect them. Beijing’s heavy-handed pandemic practices have forced the United States’ representatives there to live in constant fear.
:kitty-cri: pls protec the smol diplomats
For the past two years, U.S. diplomatic personnel in China have been forced to confront the risk of being detained or separated from their family members for either testing positive for the coronavirus or being deemed a “close contact” of someone who has. In fact, 16 U.S. diplomatic personnel or their family members have been sent, against their will, to Chinese government medical quarantine centers since the pandemic began,
:xi-gun: hello u must quarantine or people will die
:wojak-nooo: nooooo
Chinese government boasts about its handling of the pandemic, claiming suspiciously low numbers of deaths and infections since the virus emerged in Wuhan in late 2019. But whatever success the authorities have achieved in containing the spread has come at a steep cost for Chinese citizens
:cap-think: suspiciously low deaths from the Wuhan China Virus, but also if it's true then it's also bad
Why the fuck does the west worship disease and death? It just drips from every article on COVID, especially ones around China. Is it just red scare 3.0 mixed with lethal levels of copium for absolutely fumbling the response or what?
Americans are being faced with maybe the most obvious, undeniable evidence yet that China is a better, more functional country that takes good care of its civilians. It's too shocking to internalize for most, so they do full blown Orwellian doublethink
Americans cannot cope with the idea that they may not live in the best country ever. At least, they can't deal with that if it's a non-white country that's making them question it.
Why'd that wario guy get associated with libertarians btw is wario a libertarian or is it the guy cosplaying or what
I never watched it because I'm sure it's horrifically unfunny, but it is funny that he correctly identified himself with the most despicable Nintendo character of all.
I'm aware of it only from this site, the emoji, and the occasional reference in a podcast about it. It has been described as horribly uncomfortable.
I think it's a mixture of many factors, but the Parenti quote always comes to mind; Communism HAS to be wrong about things, it cannot just be 'partially correct', because that opens the door to acceptance. If it was 'partially correct' about the handling of this, then maybe we were...wrong?
And maybe it was right about other things as well?
b/c they wig out when they fail individually, and find solace and security in the fact that they are white westerners
most people have experienced this, if you beat a white guy at soccer, or at a video game, or you're dating a white girl, or you got a better grade than him, there's a certain breed of white male that will just wig out quite racistly when this happens.
The reason this happens is because they failed, and they scramble to fix this "insult" to their individual self by reminding themselves of the status of the collective self (aka white people). In this way, the white is always winning in his mind, even when he loses.
The problem is that now, even that collective status is being threatened, mostly by China, so damage control has to increase exponentially, and the wigouts become much more intense. A white person can no longer say "well at least I can afford food" or "at least I'm not dying of a plague" whenever China bests their country at something. On the contrary, it is their country who is increasingly suffering from these things.
It is like the psychological version of growing up as a trust fund kiddie, and then finding out when you're 25 that the trust fund is gone. Except since the "wealth" in this case is a vague, qualitative, immaterial status instead of physical money, you can endlessly pretend that it still exists--these articles are the result of that.
Why the fuck does the west worship disease and death?
It’s written in their religious book that god killed evil people with diseases.
Hahahaha suspiciously low numbers? Did the more experienced writers quit or what.
trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown
:sicko-wholesome:
:lady-doge: vampire mommy stepping down with her 7 inch heels until there's an audible pop
Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats
Oh No!
Not the incredibly privileged Ivy League scumfucks!How atrocious that they have to...
...quarantine for a bitDepends. Does the diplomat still get brunch? Cause if not, I'm going to have to pen a very heavy handed article about how outrageous it all is
The Chinese government boasts about its handling of the pandemic, claiming suspiciously low numbers of deaths and infections since the virus emerged
Suspicious because I, the writer of this article, do not believe that Asians could accomplish something that the noble White folk of the United States were unable to do
All of the East Asian countries had really low per capita death numbers, so it's almost as if having cultures which aren't reflexively contrarian and fanatically individualistic might have advantages.
also having actual production capacities so you can rapidly set up test & trace systems must've been a massive advantage for all NE Asian countries. Here in Europe, that took ages to set up because stuff like cotton swabs or test tubes was out of stock constantly. this is what happens when you offshore most of your manufacturing, you end up not having a functioning state anymore when shit goes down.
china does totalitarian measures and isolates you in a steel box with no food, but also the lack of covid deaths are suspicious
huh weird how those two things are contradictions
Frankly I'm kinda suspicious about the "no food lockdown" because everything from westoids is, but I can still imagine that happening in a few places due to local oversight.
Also I heard that Chinese authorities at some point overfocused on the idea that the virus could be spread via surfaces (it almost never spreads this way). I also see a lot of videos of the authorities spraying down rooms and such, which I don't believe is super necessary--maybe only if a person is moving in RIGHT AFTER, like within an hour, but otherwise the virus mostly dies in the air after several hours.
It's really the live people breathing that you need to worry about, not surfaces or day-old virus which has been exposed to the elements/already sunk to the ground
i had a texan friend living in shanghai explain it to me and he basically said most people dont have freezers so they dont keep food for themselves long. him being texan, he had like 3 deep freezers full of food that he shared with neighbors and was very popular for a week while the supply chain was disrupted. theres a lot of stores and stuff near where people live, like walking distance, so its just a ritual to drive/walk home and immediately go to the store because it comboes as a walk/some exercise
also, china could just be clamping down on diseases in general with those measures. not a bad idea tbh.
Based Texan comrade reestablishing the international with frozen bagel bites
whatever success the authorities have achieved in containing the spread has come at a steep cost for Chinese citizens
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having to isolate for a bit every now and again, in a country that actually has a social safety net so you're not just going to starve to death if you don't go to work - STEEP COST
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millions of people dying, millions more being condemned to suffer from fatigue and other Long Covid symptoms for probably the entire rest of their lives, immunocompromised people having to live in a fucking zombie movie where basically every interaction with another person might get them killed - PERFECTLY FINE
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the Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown
I'm sure it can't be as bad as the time checks notes America bombed a Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, killing 3 and injuring 20
My mom just tested positive for covid. Literally the first in my entire immediately family; we were all so careful. Why couldn't we just fucking keep shit locked down for a few weeks for real? Fuck this country.
dad got it a few days ago because of the constant media deluge of "Covid is over ya'll!" making the family think it's safe to go maskless, and now we all have it. atleast we all have 3 vaccines so it could be worse, but goddamn this shit should've been fixed years ago :sadness:
I personally know like 6 people that have gotten it in the last 2 weeks.
And if I'm not reading the wastewater data incorrectly, COVID is about as bad now as at the end of January, and we're in a massive heat wave currently. God help us this winter.
"How dare the Chinese not allow us to spread disease!"
I love how they write stuff like this as if we're not currently and for the foreseeable future locking people up for years for smoking a weed but it's china that's draconian
or like large parts of the US will soon start prosecuting doctors for doing their fucking job.
The only cringe thing about the Chinese zero-covid policy is that it's only Chinese
ideally there'd be an Indian zero covid policy, and a Nigerian one, and a Korean one...we don't want your nasty-ass bioweapon srry
ideally there’d be an Indian zero covid policy, and a Nigerian one, and a Korean one…
Japan was in hard lock down for over two years. They just cracked the door open back in April, and its still a bitch to travel there.
US media has been almost entirely blind to it.
In its zealous effort to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown
boo-fucking-hoo
In these facilities, which can resemble prisons, anonymous authorities determine whether and when patients can leave.
this author has never been to a hospital
“It has brought me back to the realization that there are many aspects of diplomacy, from war and peace negotiations to commercial diplomacy, but the most essential is protecting people,” he said.
this fucking patronage-job numpty had to have a global plague happen before he learned what being a 'diplomat' entailed.
I admit, the closest I had to becoming an unhinged Chinese jingoist was probably when they required the US diplomats to do anal Covid swabs at the border and the US side reacted as if it were the biggest breach of CIVILITY ever
Damn that sucks. Tell you what, let's switch, I'll get paid six figures and put up with China's quarantine measures, and they can take over my warehouse job.
