Posts by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
(DIR) Post #9qQu88Xjv0YRS9sxKS by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2019-12-28T19:13:10Z
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@EarlThePearls I knew I liked you for a reason. Rugby should be America's sport. Played front row myself. Broke my nose while hooking when the prop slipped. After the success of RWC inJapan this year, I'm hoping the US has a chance of getting it. It's a dream sport and I wish it would take off here. What I love best is that you treat your opponents like brothers. Beat each other up and then sing together at the pub. I wish that were the US Football culture too.
(DIR) Post #9qQx3ihwKe1K1vF4EK by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2019-12-28T19:46:00Z
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@EarlThePearls True. 7s is a nice gateway drug.
(DIR) Post #9qTQw4oVe1PfDNVRWy by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2019-12-30T00:25:43Z
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Carlos is right on the money about it someone placing a wedge between white and black. There is an historical precedent for this behavior in Bacon's Rebellion. In that moment poor white indentured servants were finding a bunch in common with black slaves. The landed classed won by appealing to unity of whiteness. "You may be poor but at least you are white." This poison dulled the masses for 150 years until the Civil War.https://twitter.com/COsweda/status/1211423976024461314
(DIR) Post #9qXGQqoHRDpDtei6SW by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2019-12-31T20:48:04Z
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Second China Travel Advisory Warning just went out. The big issue is dual-citizens (i.e. something the US officially claims it doesn't support anyway, but does unofficially.) We are getting to the point where Chinese Nationals need to choose between US and Chinese citizenship. It's increasingly difficult to be both. The ones that will absolutely be hurt are the kids under 18 who legitimately have a choice. They are the ones held at customs.
(DIR) Post #9qc3w9riJU1kMKiL2G by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-03T04:18:58Z
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Today is why I love QVF and the new media. I HATE American news outlets. Drama queens everywhere. When I lived overseas, you used to find outlets in English being very...concise. And then 10 or so years ago the papers started buying the NY Times articles and calling them the English or "international" version of their paper. I learned quickly to seek info elsewhere. I'm so lucky to be reading QV writers like Saul, Thomas, Brian, and Rex while the US media tries to weave WW3 into existence.
(DIR) Post #9qcJs5wWYMk2Io34RU by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-03T07:23:27Z
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@Debradelai do you think she knows that her picture is not a real flag? Did she just grab the first google image search result in her tantrum and call it a day?
(DIR) Post #9qwXHvV2Rv477u0LDc by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-13T01:27:59Z
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@REX why is it always the same people?
(DIR) Post #9rJIwJWZwgfAwuy5y4 by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-24T01:05:34Z
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@REX It's Lunar New Year when everyone migrates to home and then back. Give it three weeks (length of festival). If it's bad, you'll see it explode across the country then.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0AXyjbMkuQMExE by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T14:40:55Z
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Why this Coronavirus is going to spread like wildfire through China, but dissipate in Hong Kong: If you have not had to deal with a mainland hospital, you have no idea how the combination of communism and cultures leads to a hellish experience. At work, if we needed non-life-threatening emergency services (i.e. broken leg) we'd go to the private Beijing hospital. It was terrible. I was playing rugby with my mates and hit the ground hard. My head hit harder and I had a bit of a scare.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0AnDovYjfhUPiK by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T14:46:01Z
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My mates called for an ambulance and finally a beautiful Beijing ambulance drove onto the pitch. A man got out wearing a white coat and a stethoscope. No partner. He gets the backboard and gurney out of the back. My mates start giving him a run down and he responded that he was not a doctor just the driver. Apparently the uniform for drivers is straight out of TV shows. I get loaded in and notice that the ambulance is bare. No machines, nothing to even lock the gurney into place.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0B3ArcJsTAx9Zw by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T14:54:13Z
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I bounced the entire ride to Beijing United. If I didn't have a broken neck before, I was nervous I would have one now! Finally get there and after waiting forever I get an X-ray and then a CT. At this point my vision is better but my headache is getting worse. The doctor (the guy in scrubs-who know actual credentials) says that there is an abnormality with my brain. This is not my first rodeo with scans thanks to rugby and so I was surprised at how swollen my right hemisphere was but...
(DIR) Post #9rOi0BO5br39W2jrBA by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T14:58:41Z
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there was something odd about how the dividing line between hemispheres was slanted. Then my jostled brain realized that the scan was wrong. I must have been placed in the scan slightly cockeyed because the scan scanned the wrong thing. A friend of mine had the awful experience of having a heart attack in Shanghai. Thankfully they did a solid bypass on him. He just found it odd that he woke up in his tracksuit It was cut down the center and covered in his blood, but he was alive.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0BWx4u8fxWsvzc by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:03:06Z
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I must stress that these are the fancy hospitals. They are foreigner hospitals where you pay for procedures. The public hospitals are meat markets. You see people stand in line for hours waiting to register with their registration cards. Imagine having the virus while standing in line with other sick people? Probably happening now. Once you are registered, you wait in more lines to check in and then more lines to get to your procedure. And it gets better/worse, ask me about nurses!
(DIR) Post #9rOi0BgAWdVmQ7CIMK by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:07:13Z
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There aren't any! Well, not the type you think of. They are more dispensers of meds. Your family cares for you in the hospital. They bring your food and bowls, your bed clothing, and even your bed pan. Yes, grandma will have to wipe your ass if you cannot. Your family are the bedside manner you get while in hospital. Want good nurses to help you recuperate? Go to Hong Kong or Thailand. This is how Thailand makes its money. Great medical care for low cost. Most rich Chinese go there.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0Brrp8rx0Ofdaq by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:11:18Z
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My point is that if people in Wuhan are sick enough to go to hospital, they are dragging most of their family with them and exposing everyone in lines to it. All of their family will come in contact with it and once the entire family gets sick the rest of the community will come to help.Mainland China does not have the medical infrastructure in place to handle a real quarantine. They do not have staff ready to handle bodily fluids in large amounts nor the training how to interact with seclusion
(DIR) Post #9rOi0CC4c124147m5Y by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:15:15Z
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And this will spook families away from regulated medical care. If the person feels like they are going to die, they will die at home with their family. Otherwise, they will die potentially from neglect or dehydration due to staff forgetting the person needs water, and then their body is quickly disposed of to cover up the mistake. You won't see this in Hong Kong, unless the Mainland decides to take over. They have Western personal space and individual care in hospitals.
(DIR) Post #9rOi0CMLznFuWwvz72 by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:17:47Z
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I'm less worried about the US except that we got this today.
(DIR) Post #9rOiPw6b3CxzeFpw8G by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T15:44:37Z
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@Debradelai Here's the email not from a phone.
(DIR) Post #9rOk6jcTRrrxKXidKS by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T16:03:33Z
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@Debradelai Ok, but that wasn't my point. I do think that it will do a number on the Mainland. The voluntary part as I'm reading it is for the extra seats. From the article "The single flight is being arranged to transport personnel, but a limited number of passport-carrying private U.S. citizens may be allowed to board the reimbursable flight on Jan. 28, officials said" Happy to be corrected.
(DIR) Post #9rOlnPYe0t3BW3qDOi by WillingToBeConvinced@social.quodverum.com
2020-01-26T16:07:42Z
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@Debradelai Mainland CHINA, not Mainland USA.