Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Optimist]

Anyone got any reports about percentage of working prostitutes wearing masks when they are with clients? Talking about Germany, not other countries.

[Tp273]

Informal poll. Curious about this. You can be as vague as you want. I am curious about these two, and especially if you are living in Europe.

-Grocery stores.

-Not so densely populated streets, parks, etc.

I'll go first:

East Coast USA.

- 100%.

- 60%.

I know these numbers depends on number of other factors but let's not go there.

TIA.

Upstate NY.

Grocery stores - 99 %.

Walmart 90% Always a few assholes who only care about themselves or maybe Trump supporters?

Parks & walking Trails. Only 5 % this last week.

Outdoor venues (Flea Markets & garage sales) only 10 %.

I think many feel the worst is over so they can go back to the old ways. Very few know the Spanish Flue had a similar downturn before it came back even worst a few months later and ended up taking out 50 MILLION people. WEAR THE MASK!!

[The Cane]

Yes I do agree on this. There has been some recent development on infrastructure but no where near China. I am just talking about bullying, I still think China is not superpower. With superpower comes lot of responsibility. You have take everyone with you.

Also there will always be difference between democracy and communist regime.

I think that in order to be a true super power, not only must you be able to project military and economic power abroad, but you must also be able to extend your cultural values around the world too. China has not done that (Russia failed in this regard also), and I don't see them doing it anytime soon. That, in turn, will prevent China from becoming the leading, predominate diplomatic power and influencer in the world as well.

[JustTimePass]

Reply: I worked 5 years in India, India has not only to fight the covid 19, they are facing a lot of challenges, how can we imagine that India has more or less no highways, the trains are at least 70 years old, critical shortage of electricity.

Extremely segregate populations, between religions, castes, ethnics. 50 years back China and India where at the same level of development, today China is probably not far to be the super power number 1 and India is still struggling to start to develop, without speaking about the crazy unbalanced ratio woman to man which leads in some places to have 60 man for 40 woman: so many sexually frustrated young man with 0 access to sex.

Yes I do agree on this. There has been some recent development on infrastructure but no where near China. I am just talking about bullying, I still think China is not superpower. With superpower comes lot of responsibility. You have take everyone with you.

Also there will always be difference between democracy and communist regime.

[PaulInZurich]

Informal poll. Curious about this. You can be as vague as you want. I am curious about these two, and especially if you are living in Europe.
-Grocery stores.
-Not so densely populated streets, parks, etc.

Zurich.

- 4%. Only some of the old people.

- 0% practically nobody.

[Pistons]

I've only seen 2 people wear face masks in the city I live in (400 k people) since this whole thing started. And that was on the street.

Northern Europe.

[Sirioja]

When I planned a Switzerland tour on this week end, but after no room at Swiss on Thursday evening when I was not able to go to girls and some came to me, but not able to desire, after Friday at Freubad where I needed 2 hours to go to a elegant desirable look, and 2 other rooms after, so I skipped Globe and Amesia to go in my beloved mountains. Great Sunday today, for breakfast, running up la Madeleine versus motorbikes accelerating and braking more, but they couldn't compete in curves and on really high speed, even I had to be careful about bicycles, then climbing telegraphe even more than 35 degrees at the bottom in Saint Michel Maurienne, not bad for just training at the moment, but best pleasure was to see Swiss, Italians, even NL, Germans, Austrians and Spanish already in France when only opened since less than a week, really happy for employment in my little so beautiful France which need tourism income when many Europeans love France for our quality of life. Wish for many European tourists on this Summer, even no US nor Asians.

[Sirioja]

Reply: I worked 5 years in India, India has not only to fight the covid 19, they are facing a lot of challenges, how can we imagine that India has more or less no highways, the trains are at least 70 years old, critical shortage of electricity.

Extremely segregate populations, between religions, castes, ethnics. 50 years back China and India where at the same level of development, today China is probably not far to be the super power number 1 and India is still struggling to start to develop, without speaking about the crazy unbalanced ratio woman to man which leads in some places to have 60 man for 40 woman: so many sexually frustrated young man with 0 access to sex.

On western Europe standards, China is low quality, only worthing because cheap, but not for quality and reliability like for tests. Europe have to produce for our safety and health in Europe.

[Sirioja]

Informal poll. Curious about this. You can be as vague as you want. I am curious about these two, and especially if you are living in Europe.

-Grocery stores.

-Not so densely populated streets, parks, etc.

I'll go first:

East Coast USA.

- 100%.

- 60%.

I know these numbers depends on number of other factors but let's not go there.

TIA.

When I took gas in Germany, woman on shop desk told me: mask on is law. Masks are quite rare in Paris streets.

[SaratogaX]

Informal poll. Curious about this. You can be as vague as you want. I am curious about these two, and especially if you are living in Europe.

-Grocery stores.

-Not so densely populated streets, parks, etc.

I'll go first:

East Coast USA.

- 100%.

- 60%.

I know these numbers depends on number of other factors but let's not go there.

TIA.

[Turgid]

Trump is just doing what he thinks he needs to do to get re-elected. It seems less people are buying his lies lately as his poll numbers are dropping. I had to laugh when I saw many of his brain washed supporters carring the " Make America Great Again" posters at his rally today. That slogan is now better suited for Biden after Trump spent the last 3 1/2 years F*ucking up my country for his own personal gain!

A Trump supporter carrying a "Make America Great Again" sign at a 2020 Trump rally is not very smart. After Trump's full term in office shouldn't protesters at Trump's rallies be carrying that sign now?

[The Cane]

Trump is just doing what he thinks he needs to do to get re-elected. I had to laugh when I saw many of his brain washed supporters carrying the " Make America Great Again" posters at his rally today. That slogan is now better suited for Biden.

Yeah, no kidding! How incredibly ironic! Although, I thought the slogan for this campaign was going to be "Keep America Great". But as you say, the 2016 slogan would be more fitting. For the other guy!

[ExpatLover]

The news is correct. I am living in India for last 2 years (atleast 10 months a year). Anyways China is bullying India a lot as well as its neighbors in south China sea, Taiwan and HK. I am sure they want to achieve one thing remove all US influence in this region. China cannot escape that it gave corona to the world. And it has all weather friend Pakistan, NK, Nepal and other few as well. The main problem is India is fighting corona and is yet to reach its peak. So don't know where this all will lead to. Many people and government is looking at US for support but yet to hear anything. I don't know what China is achieving by being a bully. Is it thinking that it can simply replace US as super po.

Reply: I worked 5 years in India, India has not only to fight the covid 19, they are facing a lot of challenges, how can we imagine that India has more or less no highways, the trains are at least 70 years old, critical shortage of electricity.

Extremely segregate populations, between religions, castes, ethnics. 50 years back China and India where at the same level of development, today China is probably not far to be the super power number 1 and India is still struggling to start to develop, without speaking about the crazy unbalanced ratio woman to man which leads in some places to have 60 man for 40 woman: so many sexually frustrated young man with 0 access to sex.

[JustTimePass]

Headline news are saying China India are in some kinda military tiff and China killed 20+ Indian troops.

This is inline with prior discussion about China using Corona virus damage that was inflicted on its rivals and trying to take them on economically, trade wise, and militarily; HK is already occupied, Taiwan is being bullied; Philippines was badgered 2 years ago. Now India will take a beating.

I am sure our erudite expert (s) will disagree and tell me I am completely misreading this, or that there is not enough consensus that China is in any real confrontation with India. Perhaps FT and WSJ are wrong. But here are two links; perhaps FT and WSJ may not be sufficiently up to the standards of erudite masters, and I hope they can correct me and these two publications where they made mistakes.

https://www.ft.com/content/15a1cc68-...0-7fe331adca33#comments-anchor.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-c...d=hp_lead_pos4

The news is correct. I am living in India for last 2 years (atleast 10 months a year). Anyways China is bullying India a lot as well as its neighbors in south China sea, Taiwan and HK. I am sure they want to achieve one thing remove all US influence in this region. China cannot escape that it gave corona to the world. And it has all weather friend Pakistan, NK, Nepal and other few as well. The main problem is India is fighting corona and is yet to reach its peak. So don't know where this all will lead to. Many people and government is looking at US for support but yet to hear anything. I don't know what China is achieving by being a bully. Is it thinking that it can simply replace US as super power?

[Tp273]

If I were you, I wouldn't pay much attention to Bolsonaro or Trump. They're just doing what they've promised what their voters elected them to do..

Trump is just doing what he thinks he needs to do to get re-elected. It seems less people are buying his lies lately as his poll numbers are dropping. I had to laugh when I saw many of his brain washed supporters carring the " Make America Great Again" posters at his rally today. That slogan is now better suited for Biden after Trump spent the last 3 1/2 years F*ucking up my country for his own personal gain!