In Wuhan...
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It's amazing the stupidity that Trump and his supporters have managed to infect the world with.
A few days ago our foreign exchange student came back telling us tales of Japan where all the businesses and schools are open and nobody wears masks and nobody cares much about the virus.
God but I hate Trump.
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@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
No domestic transfer cases since May.
They did a lockdown that we can't even imagine and implemented tracing that we couldn't pull off, but now they can have nice things.
Japan cases are rising, the population still doesn't care. It may be the case that the american left, or maybe the western european left in general, has embraced the most pussified set of group-think ideas in the history of cultures embracing group-think ideas.
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@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
No domestic transfer cases since May.
They did a lockdown that we can't even imagine and implemented tracing that we couldn't pull off, but now they can have nice things.
Japan cases are rising, the population still doesn't care.
They have fewer than 1000 cases a day. Tokyo has about as many new daily cases as NYC. Which has also opened its schools, cultural institutions and even gyms.
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@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
It may be the case that the american left, or maybe the western european left in general, has embraced the most pussified set of group-think ideas in the history of cultures embracing group-think ideas.
Next stop: liberalism is a mental disease.
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@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
No domestic transfer cases since May.
They did a lockdown that we can't even imagine and implemented tracing that we couldn't pull off, but now they can have nice things.
Japan cases are rising, the population still doesn't care.
They have fewer than 1000 cases a day. Tokyo has about as many new daily cases as NYC. Which has also opened its schools, cultural institutions and even gyms.
My point was not about societies doing the inevitable, it was about the whining. I asked our exchange student about that specifically. She was not aware of a large number of whiners.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
No domestic transfer cases since May.
They did a lockdown that we can't even imagine and implemented tracing that we couldn't pull off, but now they can have nice things.
Japan cases are rising, the population still doesn't care.
They have fewer than 1000 cases a day. Tokyo has about as many new daily cases as NYC. Which has also opened its schools, cultural institutions and even gyms.
My point was not about societies doing the inevitable, it was about the whining. I asked our exchange student about that specifically. She was not aware of a large number of whiners.
The Japanese don't do a lot of things that Westerners do. Parading around with guns, rioting about police brutality, and screaming that masks are an attack on their civil liberties, to pick some examples.
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@jon-nyc said in In Wuhan...:
@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
It may be the case that the american left, or maybe the western european left in general, has embraced the most pussified set of group-think ideas in the history of cultures embracing group-think ideas.
Next stop: liberalism is a mental disease.
I wonder if this idea that the American left has embraced the most pussified set of group-think ideas in the history of cultures embracing group-think ideas, has any legs. I think maybe it does. I'm going to start thinking in those terms. It may be pure pseudo-intellectual gold.
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It fits interestingly with another of my pet theories, that American culture has tried harder than any other human culture in history, not to be racist. To the point that we've totally fetishized the concept of not being racist and turned it into the easiest, laziest, least meaningful virtue signal in the history of virtue signals.
man, these superlatives about human history are just rolling off my tongue today.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in In Wuhan...:
It fits interestingly with another of my pet theories, that American culture has tried harder than any other human culture in history, not to be racist.
That may or may not be the case. However, ask anyone who has spent time in Japan or China and ask them their impressions on whether those cultures are racist.
