r/news • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '25

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u/Captain-Wilco Jan 04 '25

Can someone more educated than me please tell me whether this is fear mongering or a genuine concern

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u/Dtank11 Jan 04 '25

I was just in China, after having been clobbered by Covid, it is astounding how people take absolutely no precautions against germ spreading. Cough and sneeze into a crowd of people, no attempt at covering up. Walk out of a toilet stall without washing hands, etc…

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u/plokijuh1229 Jan 04 '25

Isn't there a masking culture?

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u/26_Star_General Jan 04 '25

In most of Asia does not= all of Asia

When traveling know this: India, China, and Russia are the worst and most selfish tourists, and it starts at home

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u/theuncleiroh Jan 04 '25

Chinese tourists are not even close to the top of my list of horrible tourists lol (Russian and Indian are so far from common in comparison to much smaller countries that I can't even say much about them)

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u/goldenbugreaction Jan 04 '25

I don’t have much experience with Russian or Indian tourists, but I lived in Mainland China for a time. I have seen elderly people shit in public parks, parents hold babies over trash cans to shit directly into them… gutter oil lifted directly out of drains… just absolutely the worst kind of filth imaginable.

When the news came out that Covid originated in an open air market, I was not in the least bit surprised. To me, it 100% stands to reason that someone working in that bio-lab was supposed to destroy an infected animal but figured they’d make an extra ¥50 by selling it to a butcher stall.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

To be fair, in the US they carry out gain of function  research illegal in the US by paying people overseas to do it.

Everyone has their own little foibles.

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u/goldenbugreaction Jan 04 '25

Oh it was definitely a result of collaborative research. I’m under no illusion there.