but who knows

A theory is that it mutates/mutated so often because one of the gases used as chemical warfare, mustard gas, has highly mutagenic properties

(Also why it causes cancer (mustard gas i mean))

But yeah, there will be strains forming of course — but not at the frequency of H1N1

PM's in hospital, but it's only the flu, bro!

He’ll recover

@Gaylien I man have posted the number of deaths by region thing a couple of times, but the rest is other information. 'Twas for aussie anyway. Nice engagement with what I was actually saying tho 👍 😏

he's just having some routine tests

nothing to worry about

prospect of him being incapacitated and having Rishi Sunak as PM

Think some of the server would have a meltdown

Yeah don't exaggerate Eccles. He went in as a precautionary measures for persistent symptoms. I've had a cough for 6 weeks in the past and I'm unfortunately still here.😏

That's because winter is the time for upper respiritory tract infections

And now we're coming into pollen season

I'm snotting and scratching all over the place and have been for a couple of weeks

Been trying not to take anything for it except at it's worst

i could be running a temperature, or i could just be a fat middle aged bloke who just did some housework 😉

@Cassiopeia Yeah I remember when I found out that the Chinese don’t flush the toilet paper after use.

that's not just the chinese

quite common, local plumbing dependent

I was only living in China. Where else do they do that?

greece, cyprus, turkey

Oh lol

don't get me wrong, it's filthy, but i don't think it's entirely cultural

It’s one of many odd things I saw out there. Like some poor bloke walking I. The middle of the road in literally rags while flashy cars drove around him, people spitting every 5 seconds and people smoking in hospitals (everywhere in fact). Drying out food on the floor, being extremely rude. Was a very cool experience that’s for sure lol

they didn't have the same industrialisation process there over time

their change has been rapid

and extremely uneven

Too rapid.

yes, that's why these weird anomolies still exist

in a perfect world you'd want them to develop gradually thus retain the character of the culture but modernising and dropping the stupid stuff

but we don't live in a perfect world, it is how it si

I came back home and then went back 2 years later and they had literally built a new part of the city

there are allegedly new cities mostly empty

I’ve heard that! These were not though

think it's overcapacity due to their modernisation method

and since it's central govmt controlled, they have to keep the accelerator down even if it means overproducing

i'm guessing thats why, alongside the strategic element, they're building across africa too

with little prospect of recouping, financially

"what can we do with this overcapcity that could be useful to us"

Zhaoqing was a pretty bustling place tbh