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[Mr Enternational]

I was just expressing surprise the Covid rules that apply to Argentinian millionaires who are central to an event all of Latin America is fixated on do not seem to apply to you. The capture of the four footballers on the field of play was a major world story. In the real world at least.

There you have it. I am a peon and no eyes are on me versus the millions on them. And no matter the millions they have, they are considered the investments of someone with billions.

Give me the money over the fame any day. It was the talk of the world when Justin Beiber was in the fuck house here. I have been countless times and it appears nobody has given a shit yet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...orld-tour.html

[PedroMorales]

I don't watch sports. I am too busy hanging out in the real world. 5 minutes from now I will be looking at bikinis on the beach alongside my honey. But you enjoy watching the guys in shorts running around kicking a ball on TV. Hope your team wins and you are awarded something good from it.

FIFA is a $5 bn industry. Small beans perhaps to you. I was just expressing surprise the Covid rules that apply to Argentinian millionaires who are central to an event all of Latin America is fixated on do not seem to apply to you. The capture of the four footballers on the field of play was a major world story. In the real world at least.

[Mr Enternational]

You obviously don't play English Premier League. The Argentina Brazil game was called off mid game because four of La Albiceleste ply in England. Were you at the game?

I don't watch sports. I am too busy hanging out in the real world. 5 minutes from now I will be looking at bikinis on the beach alongside my honey. But you enjoy watching the guys in shorts running around kicking a ball on TV. Hope your team wins and you are awarded something good from it.

[WestCoast1]

And we gots us a backtrack.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/duter...X6ctP2pEX1JfHQ

From the article:

In a last-minute backtrack, the Philippines' coronavirus task force retained the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) in Metro Manila until September 15, delaying the expected transition of the capital region to a new lockdown system.

"Metro Manila's current risk classification as MECQ shall be maintained until September 15, 2021, or until the pilot (general community quarantine) with alert level system is implemented, whichever comes first," Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque confirmed on Tuesday, September 7.

"Having said this, indoor and al-fresco dine-in services, and personal care services, including beauty salons, beauty parlors, and nail spas shall remain prohibited," he added.

[PedroMorales]

I have been having a better time in this petri dish that is Brazil for the last couple of weeks than I would have being couped up somewhere hoping for the angel of covid to pass by and stay gone forever. Seize the day or sit around waiting for an uncertain future.

You obviously don't play English Premier League. The Argentina Brazil game was called off mid game because four of La Albiceleste ply in England. Were you at the game?

[FuriousGeorge]

This is just simply not true. My best friend runs the ER at a major LA hospital. This friend told me just 2 days ago that essentially EVERYONE they see for covid is unvaccinated. They ask everyone. This is my friend. Who is there every day. This friend has no agenda.

SG, do you have a link or evidence of that info (majority of the hospitalized are double vax)?

[Mr Enternational]

SG, do you have a link or evidence of that info (majority of the hospitalized are double vax)?

I do not know any numbers, but I recently postedin another thread a White House briefing of the CDC director saying the shit is not working in Israel. Nobody seems to pay it any attention though. Also 2 top US FDA officials quit last week because the administration is trying to push a 3rd jab and they are not sure whether or not it will be safe to do so. I managed to find the video. It is from minute 40 to 41.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciVGAP...ndex=12&t=859s

[WestCoast1]

SNIP which is a relief since the majority of the hospitalized are double vax. SNIP

SG, do you have a link or evidence of that info (majority of the hospitalized are double vax)?

[WestCoast1]

I have been having a better time in this petri dish that is Brazil for the last couple of weeks than I would have being couped up somewhere hoping for the angel of covid to pass by and stay gone forever. Seize the day or sit around waiting for an uncertain future.

Touche!

Manila jumps out of MECQ tomorrow, and falls back to the less-restrictive GCQ. The cycle continues.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/06/...PtLcd31HtR_rKc

From the article:

Metro Manila will go down to general community quarantine (GCQ), the Philippines' second-loosest lockdown level, from Sept. 8 until the end of the month, while 10 other areas in the country will be under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) during the same period, Malacaang said on Monday.

[Mr Enternational]

Brazil is a petri dish.

I have been having a better time in this petri dish that is Brazil for the last couple of weeks than I would have being couped up somewhere hoping for the angel of covid to pass by and stay gone forever. Seize the day or sit around waiting for an uncertain future.

[Goferring]

Airlines are petri dishes. I note you cannot see that. You want some sort of caste system where the pompous- mongers ffs.

Perhaps reread my post I was the one who referred to planes as 'petri dishes' and compared them to cruise liners because they are ideal breeding grounds for any contagious disease including Covid.

Where did I recommend that mongers should get a free pass? I don't expect ANYONE to be flying soon.

There is a big difference between me wanting to go party and being able to. Doesn't stop me daydreaming. 😁.

[Goferring]

We don't tend to see moral hazard mentioned in the Philippines forums.

Moral hazard says the guy who wants to go to the Philippines to bang paupers.

Guys, just for clarity, the term 'moral hazard' isn't a ethical judgement. It's when a group makes a choice knowing that an incorrect choice will have no down side. Ref banks piling on debt and risk in the 2008 Financial Collapse knowing that they would be bailed out if their bet lost.

The parallel to vaccinations is that someone will be there to bail them out, should they make the wrong call, so there is less incentive to think about the risks.

[PedroMorales]

It's everybody's business just like Typhoid Mary was everybody's business. I have four grandchildren between the ages of one and 10, and those who are too self-absorbed to get vaccinated endanger them. These kids have no defense against unvaccinated people communicating covid to them. The one-year-old has medical issues and would probably not survive covid.

Obesity is not mortally contagious to the non-obese. Where people smoke is regulated, and secondhand smoke is nowhere near as deadly as covid. Wearing seat belts is regulated, sometimes expensively.

Nobody I know is proposing that those who are allergic must take vaccines.

Here's another viewpoint; he doesn't exactly seem like one of the "liberal elite":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Gq6ROvBkU

I had Covid. I didn't run, walk or crawl to any tik tok dancing hospital, though I do know some that did. He has raised over 100 K $ so far with his foul mouth and his sob sob story. Living in a backward country like America, he has to go begging bowl in hand to pay for his wife.

Smoking is a filthy, anti-social addiction. I have no time for smokers, cigarette companies or their apologists. Even thinking about them makes me homicidal. Obese people. Fat shaming, what a joke. Though Africans do like theirs on the big side.

I have a fair idea where I picked up the virus and I have taken steps to avoid such occasions of sin in the future. I am ok for the next few months and I will see how Israelis get on with their sixth, sevant and eight boosters. Real Bill Gates upgrades there.

Americans are mortal dangers to the rest of us in Covid as in much else. One only has to see American College kids partying in Florida on their interminable breaks to see what a petri dish the USA in. Kensington Ave in Philly anyone? They and much of the rest of the dumbed down world see vaccinations as a comfort blanket and their inner Nazi comes out, roaring at the rest of us.

I am socially responsible, I stay miles away from the vulnerable and limit social contact. I do know, however, that this will be a horrendous winter as others spread Covid, flus, cold and the clap and try to blame it on me and not on the house parties and junkies that keep the cops busy and afraid (they deal with the super spreaders on a daily basis and are hard hit, which affects their tik tok dancing).

The solution lies in copying the good people of China and Vietnam who understand lockdowns and social responsibility, not the Big Mac lardheads of the USA. It was the anniversary of Ho Chi Minh's untimely death (smoker) a few days ago and the great General Giap would now be 110 if he had not been taken away from us in 2013. Vietnam defeated the USA and it defeated Covid and have plans for recovery (though fatalities are back up) https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vi...m-4351981.html.

China, meanwhile, seems to be in control. I know people who work there and they said it is steady: Just avoid Yanks.

SE Asia, the Philippines, has been ravaged by the USA. I shudder to think what lies ahead for them.

But, as long as Big Pharma wins, why worry?

[OlderAndWiser]

Sadly the chickens are coming home to roost I've seen 3 RIP notices in the expat forums here in Cebu in the last couple of weeks alone. I had my own scare a couple of weeks ago (non covid) and bought a couple of Oxygen tanks (difficult to find a space in hospital here now and many don't have spare tanksanyhow.

The guy I bought them off had bought them for his Pinay wife (39) who sadly didn't make it leaving 3 kids. I lent the tanks to the grandpa of a GF here a week ago, but sadly he passed 2 days ago (mid 60's).

The anti-vax debate reminds me of a poem my father sometimes recited when teaching me and my siblings to drive. Although there are other variations, this was my father's version:

"Here lies the body of Thomas Grey.

Who died defending his right of way.

He was dead right as he sped along.

But just as dead as if he'd been dead wrong."

Seems fitting for the last testimonials of anti-vaxxers lying at death's door because of covid.

[Soapy Smith]

The anti-vax debate reminds me of a poem my father sometimes recited when teaching me and my siblings to drive. Although there are other variations, this was my father's version:

"Here lies the body of Thomas Grey.

Who died defending his right of way.

He was dead right as he sped along.

But just as dead as if he'd been dead wrong."

Seems fitting for the last testimonials of anti-vaxxers lying at death's door because of covid.