xiongmao wrote: ↑January 15th, 2021, 12:56 am
.... I've been locked down for practically a year now. I lost my China job because of it, then I couldn't start my Thailand job when they closed the borders. I couldn't start a UK IT job because of lockdown
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What annoys me is that dickheads flamed me on Reddit for
pointing out that the thing came from a lab.
I am luckily retired, allowance is OK - no financial problem, but I am restricted to Japan, no way to go abroad without paying a lot of additional fees for testing, quarantine, covid-insurance and so on. No guarantee that I can return without paying again for the same procedure despite being a permanent Japanese resident. - Otherwise, within Japan there are not many restrictions, you can go out and travel to anywhere in all Japan, life almost normal and covid-19 is present mainly within the large cities of Tokyo and nearby, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka.
Japan is very pissed off with China which kept all of its disaster in secret and their tourists and business visitors coming from Wuhan infected thousands of Japanese people in Hokkaido and in Kyoto area, also Japanese tourists coming back from China (and later on from Italy and France too) imported covid-19 into Japan, US military servicemen and some family members after a round trip in Asia including China infected many Japanese in Okinawa.
In South Korea a certain religious group of Koreans coming back from China infected thousands of people in one city in South Korea.
Also Korean business travellers infected many Koreans after coming back from China to Seoul.
Japan offers now financial help to Japanese companies, which are willing to move out of China, either back to Japan or to elsewhere (Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines etc.) - so far about 90 companies applied for this program.
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Nobody here in Japan and South Korea has any intention to assist and protect China with its untrustworthy behavior and ridiculous claims that the virus came originally from Italy or from USA and other nonsense.
However we have many private and public laboratories in Japan and South Korea and no research so far over many months showed up with any indication that this covid-19 virus was artificially produced.
It has to be pointed out that this finding does not mean that this covid-19 virus did not escape from a laboratory in China.
It means merely, that this covid-19 virus was NOT artifically created.
The origin and route of infection remain unclear, likely from bats, snakes - later carried on by other animals and finally jumped over to humans.