[Coronavirus] My parents just called me all concerned because I work at a Chinese company. Wow that was an uncomfortable racist conversation and now I'm all agitated.
I was like: yeah people here are panicking, I was at the Asian market and everyone was buying like 100 packs of toilet paper and 30 pounds of rice and... Then they interrupted to be like; WHY ARE YOU AT THE ASIAN MARKET DON'T GO THERE.
and a big chunk of my office was in self quarantine after returning from china. they're just getting back and now everyone who was demoing/working PAX has to self quarantine for 2 weeks.
(they have the internet, but they only use it for netflix, and going directly to websites like Amazon etc. THey don't actually know how to search for things or .. use it.)
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: it's been bad. the week after spring festival people couldn't get back and then when they could they couldn't get to work it's been a mess
and having everyone self quarantine is good! We should be doing that. But like... none of them can work from home. so it's just a bunch of people not working.
my parents are just... they don't know how to parse information in a logical way. They hear something and immediately either believe it 100% or think it's false. there's ltierally no in between.
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: Yeah. I'm not sure what's going on at the Beijing office, i don't think they're getting paid. i think they have to make it up? But i'm not 100% on that. In the US and the UK office they're getting paid thru self quarentine
yeah i was talking to this interviewer the other day and he was from australia and was straight up like yeah a lot of aussies are hella racist and there are people flat out refusing to go to asian doctors in australia
this is going to sound so bad, but talking to them about serious subjects is like talking to toddlers. there's no reasoning, because their mind is made up already based on facts they invented because they feel right
which is extra annoying cuz they're not stupid. My mom was a librarian, my dad was an electrician. they're not idiots. but sometimes they act like it and it's SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING.
Then they interrupted to be like; WHY ARE YOU AT THE ASIAN MARKET DON'T GO THERE.
people is not a city, wikipedia