The COVID-19 Blues

Dubman

bosstrabs
One of my friends done the same thing working for either Nokia or Siemens as he did work for both. He had a brilliant life and was part of that corporate expat community. He moved back before you arrived in 2010. I don’t think he ever saw the rural parts of the country as he lived and worked in Shanghai

bosstrabs

Not really sure what response you’re looking for here, Derm.

Maybe I’ll just sell up and leave because some bloke who occasionally pops into an online forum (mostly to fling whatever shit he can at anyone who’s around) doesn’t approve.

Cankles-McJeggings

bosstrabs

That’s exactly what you do too.
What I’m looking for is a westerner to wake up and smell the roses. Oppose it not appease it. You’re supporting everything they do.
And with all due respect UAE isn’t about to cause ww3 any time soon. You’re supporting a murderous regime that can and probably will try to end western civilisation. Why would anyone with half a brain choose to live somewhere like that? Especially someone who’s country wil be their main target. Beyond comprehension. No different than living in Germany during the Nazi occupation.

bosstrabs

Cankles-McJeggings that can and probably will try to end western civilisation.

Way too hysterical. Neither possible (mutually assured destruction) nor plausible (as an export-led economy producing manufactured goods, even more dependent on access to foreign markets than Russia is).

I’ll “wake up and smell the roses”, if you broaden your media intake on economics and geo-politics beyond maybe The Sydney Morning Herald/Murdoch’s channels.

Millsy

Cankles-McJeggings My mate lives in China. Has done for about 18 years. I will be sending him that last line lol

-si-

Cankles-McJeggings No different than living in Germany during the Nazi occupation.

Thats why we call him Achtung Davy!

Cankles-McJeggings

Oh give over. I don’t pander to the shite media outlets.
Making your bed and having to sleep in it comes to mind when they decide they don’t like you in their country anymore. They’ll take everything from you overnight. You already have absolutely no rights there and they’ll more than likely slam the lot of you into camps to rot. Again, why would anyone choose to live somewhere like that from a nation who is clearly opposed to them and a political and military enemy? There’s some fucked up logic here that’s not as easy to explain as you’re making it out to be. You’ll get dragged out of your bed one night, probably completely unannounced and that will be that. But you choose to live somewhere capable of that. It’s fucked up.

bosstrabs

You’re clearly bored because you’re repeating the same lines now.

You’ll have to move on to Rhouses for a while now, I’m not going to do this all day.

Cankles-McJeggings

bosstrabs

It’s the Rona talking.

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings Take care, Dermo. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Haven’t read the rest of the thread. But I just got back from a 4 day trip in Bombay. Life is pretty much post-COVID at the moment. Absolutely no one wearing masks, even though there are signs to do so everywhere. And some of my most paranoid friends (during the pandemic) are carrying on with their lives without a worry in the world. In some ways, the omincron wave in January has helped with this.

Gotta say, all the paranoia and caution I had at home (because of my daughter) in Bangalore went out the window during this trip. And it was kinda nice. Life felt normal for the first time since March 2020.

Cankles-McJeggings

rhouses

Cheers rhousedawg. It’s taken me by surprise this one has. Being vaxxed up led me to believe it would be far less severe etc etc. Seemingly not. Slightly disillusioned by the whole shamola right now.
Ooh just to add - prior to the match last Sunday Queensland health sent a text out to everyone urging/warning to mask up or consider not going as it was being regarded a super spreader event. Then we got one via ticket company saying the same and then one from qld transport. Got to the match and no cunt had a mask on. 50,000 people. Just the odd one. Then today I just read that Queensland, which as you may be aware is pretty much only Brisbane, has had its highest death toll from covid to date. Mainly old, care homes etc but still.

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings Take solace in knowing you have the natural booster in you now.

Maybe a check up is in order once you test negative. My dad just got it, and while all the symptoms were mostly negligible, we still did a full body check up and ECG after. It would seem long COVID is leading to heart attacks which aren’t being counted as COVID deaths. But again, maybe this is just the media getting to me.

Cankles-McJeggings

rhouses

I’m day 9 now and still pretty fucked. Not sure if I’ll bother but if the migraine continues I might. Also have complete loss of taste this time which I didn’t the first time either. If this so called Omicron is supposed to be better than the first fucker I had then it ain’t happening for me. It’s the opposite. Trusting I have Omicron that is. Who knows.

Mad_Cyril

Dermo’s got the sniffles and Dave is the second coming of Pol Pot?

What a start to the day!

Hope you feel better soon 👍

bosstrabs

Cankles-McJeggings Also have complete loss of taste this time

Looking at the trabs thread, Rhouses can empathise here.

alistair

Cankles-McJeggings speedy recovery. Sounds like the symptoms I had the first time round at Christmas 2020. I wince still thinking about those headaches. I hadn’t however been vaccinated by then.

303abuser

Cankles-McJeggings Hope you feel better soon. Omicron is really only “less severe” than delta, it’s worse than every version prior, the media has fucked up the messaging on it pretty badly. Not sure if it’ll help with the migraines, but make sure you stay well hydrated (electrolytes, not just water). Every time I had a headache land on me, that worked to kill it, but migraines are a different thing.

rhouses

bosstrabs Not a word about the Asics UpThere collab. I know you loved it.

RichM

bosstrabs fair enough. I sometimes wish I had made a move abroad earlier on my life to experience a different culture, although China is a huge cultural difference so not sure I could have managed that. Fair play to you though, and hope you recover from covid soon

bosstrabs

RichM Fair play to you though, and hope you recover from covid soon

I’ve not got the Miley, mate. Dermo has.

alistair

bosstrabs 😂

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