Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Niggaplease]

Yeah it's like a cross-breed between a dalmatian and a cat.
I assume you mean "I wanna cuddle it rather than eat it", not "I want to cuddle it first then eat it"...

Here's what the Chinese ones look like:
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Here's ancient text on how delicious this thing... apparently is, and how to prepare it:
“去皮并肠腑，用纸揩净，以清酒净洗，入椒、葱、茴、萝于其中，缝蜜蒸熟，去料物，压隔宿，薄切如玉。雪天炉畔，论诗把酒，真奇物也。故东坡有‘雪天牛尾’之咏。或纸裹糟一宿，尤佳。”
Rid the skin and guts, cleanse with paper, further soak in alcohol, add in peppers, shallot, fennel, radish, steam thoroughly, rid the seasoning, leave overnight, cut into thin slives.
During winter by the oven, consume with alcohol, what an amazing creature!
I don't know how to translate "故東坡..."
Or seal in paper overnight, tasty.
I assume some of these steps were skipped during preparation...

1977 newspaper talking about the consumption of these weird possume-cat critters.
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they're so cute I had a pet racoon once he was a cuddler. I called him macaroon. but some ass hole kidnapped him and ate him. Rip my little macaroon.

 

[AltisticRight]

According to Bedford, this means that the virus can not be produced in the laboratory.

Yeah, it's not made in a lab, but perhaps someone brought weird critters with the virus to the lab for studying, and the weird critter made it out the lab, into the mouths of disgusting slants.
Or some tard saw it flying in the wild, found a cave infested with these critters, thought "oh herro, I can make 2 yuan each", captured a bunch and sold it to "restaurants".
Either way, we need to find the proxy, the link between the critters and the market.

There's other cases too. Maybe someone caught a pangolin in the wild, smuggled it, ate it, and then later went to disgusting market causing the epidemic due to the abundance of good hosts.

Spoiler: More powahlevel

I met some far relatives that bought some weirdo "apparently protected" critter from a questionable market to a restaurant. It's a "Giant Chinese Salamander", I looked it up, critically endangered. I looked at them with utter disgust and left. They later consumed that fucking thing for CNY, while I bought some pancakes. Told me how delicious it was.

Yeah, if this is me "signalling my superiority", then let it be. I am better than them [Anna Kasparian face].

It's very common for restaurants in China to prepare weird animals for consumption.

 

[Coleslaw]

The delicacy has been consumed, referred to as "cow tail in the snowy fields", even consumed by the great poet Su Dongpo.

Which is why Su Dongpo called it "cow tail in the snowy fields".

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I've always suspected some low level tard working at the Wuhan lab snatching critters destined for the incinerator and instead selling them or some sloppy maintenance issue releasing infectious waste into the area. Here the Chinese have an obsession with food, especially weird and exotic food but it's mostly those born and raised in mainland China. I have rarely, if ever, heard Chinese from Taiwan or Singapore going on about eating strange critters (maybe they do, behind my back).

I have relatives that live in Asia and the Japanese have their own weird food fetishes, like fugu, which is expensive poisonous puffer fish. It's a status symbol thing to eat and then brag how you didn't die (I also heard that if you get a super tiny, tiny dose of the poison it gives you a buzz but I don't care to find out if that's true). There's always a few dumbass japs that die from eating fugu every year even though it's illegal to prepare the poisonous parts for consumption. The US has it's own weird food connoisseurs who eat raccoons, squirrels, possums, snakes, gators and whatnot but it's looked down upon, as in it's a low class hillbilly kind of thing. I don't get it, there's enough great meat/fish that doesn't kill you available. like wild salmon or longhorn beef. Squab is delicious, no need to grab them from the windowsill since markets here have the ones raised for eating.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

We went over this one or two hundred pages ago. One of the lab workers decided to make a quick buck by selling test animals to a wet market for a quick buck. Read the post index.

Do you have a direct link to the post?

 

[Zamzz]

The chinese really need to stop eating anything that moves, different countries obviously have different food cultures but if what you're eating is a potential carrier for diseases that are deadly to humans, then it's probably a good indicator that it was never meant for human consumption in the first place. Hopefully the new coronavirus will serve as a hard lesson. There is a chinese proverb that roughly translated goes something like "when a man sees something in the wild, his first thought is "is it alive?", his second thought is "can you eat it?". At least they live as they learn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Hey check out these activated carbon masks I found on Amazon. Since the vapor from coughs/sneezes are the primary risk of infection, and activated carbon is what's used in filtering water, this could come in handy.

 

[simulated goat]

shiiit I'm going to have to go near china for business. Well I've made peace with my god. And I'm probably going to die if I get it. Well in case I get wu flu :/ I'm gonna get drunk and maybe run a train. probably more than likely just get drunk. I'm not going directly near china but it has causes of wu flu. gotta yell at some supplier to send more ppe like we fucking paid for.

I have a friend who is heading to Indonesia for business in April. When I talked to them last, they were pretty much closing their eyes, covering their ears and chanting 'lalala can't hear you' whenever the subject of Coronachan came up. Seems that to some people, merely contemplating this brings in 'bad energy' and if you ignore it you'll be safe. They told me about how they flew around for work in empty planes during SARS and they were just fine.

I worry, but what am I going to do?

Safe journeys, Kiwi and godspeed.

 

[AltisticRight]

The chinese really need to stop eating anything that moves, different countries obviously have different food cultures but if what you're eating is a potential carrier for diseases that are deadly to humans, then it's probably a good indicator that it was never meant for human consumption in the first place. Hopefully the new coronavirus will serve as a hard lesson. There is a chinese proverb that roughly translated goes something like "when a man sees something in the wild, his first thought is "is it alive?", his second thought is "can you eat it?". At least they live as they learn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well it's not that bad. Cars and trains move, so do planes and rockets, the Chinese aint eating that... (yet).
I have the same reaction when seeing weird fruits and mushrooms in the wild too.
First thought: Oh look at that thing, it looks nice!
Second: Can I eat that?
Third: I'd rather make it out of here alive, so I'll just take some photos to keep.
Love mushrooms, truffles are the best.

So... the rabbit hole goes even deeper. I was browsing around and came across this woman, who is one of the the authors of a paper published in 2015.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm....NFPtvQH-xFrF6QaF1hKE1Ey2TPrEi17XfFUIbpUIAosDc

Her name is 石正麗, and she's a reputable member of the Wuhan lab.

So the conspiracy circulates on Chinanet, did the virus come from the lab?
She swears that it's not, she's said she's willing to put her life on the line as a bet.

She talks about pajeet so called "experts" spreading clickbait, and that they've retracted their statements.
As a boomer, she seems well-versed in the interwebz. "打臉" slap across the face, a colloquialism for those who get proven wrong, popular among the youth.

I'll write something up later. Not going to say "tomorrow" anymore, I said it last time and it took almost a week. So when I'm free, I'll dig into her and see what I can find. Opposed to that 80s thot who got her position by sucking her old husband's limp Asian ricegrain up there, this person seems to actually know a lot of shit. I've already archived some posts, a lot of them has been ovened, those are mainly discussing the likelihood of the virus originating from the lab, either intended or not.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

 

[simulated goat]

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. The US has it's own weird food connoisseurs who eat raccoons, squirrels, possums, snakes, gators and whatnot but it's looked down upon, as in it's a low class hillbilly kind of thing.

It's more than low-class hillbilly. It's mostly because those animals require extensive preparation and are pretty much survival-tier food. I used to know a dude who had been raised in bumfuck Colorado back when people in bumfuck still had no electricity and hunted their food on the mountain. He told me about what was required preparation wise to cook things like bear, opossum, and raccoon. It all sounded like greasy gamy shit that tastes like ass for the most part. The 'possom sounded really gross. You had to boil the shit out of it, scraping off foul smelling grey foam until cooked. And then it tasted like wet sneakers. I'm an adventurous eater, but damn, it just sounded awful.

 

[AltisticRight]

I have rarely, if ever, heard Chinese from Taiwan or Singapore going on about eating strange critters (maybe they do, behind my back).

I have relatives that live in Asia and the Japanese have their own weird food fetishes, like fugu, which is expensive poisonous puffer fish. It's a status symbol thing to eat and then brag how you didn't die (I also heard that if you get a super tiny, tiny dose of the poison it gives you a buzz but I don't care to find out if that's true). There's always a few dumbass japs that die from eating fugu every year even though it's illegal to prepare the poisonous parts for consumption.

You didn't include HK, but I've came across HKers that like to eat fried bugs. Centipedes, millipedes, spiders... ehhh
I like spiders (not eating them!!!) and the idea of eating centipedes makes my skin crawl, hard pass for me.
Australians eat kangaroo and rabbit meat, also honeypot ants, fried spiders. Difference is, it's prepared properly. I heard crocodiles taste like chicken, don't know and not interested to find out ever.

As for puffer fish, I can provide some insight.
- The chef needs to be licensed to serve puffer fish
- It's said to be very delicious, again I'd rather not find out
- Out of all the deaths, only one was from a certified chef, and the death wasn't really because of the poison
So yeah, nips gobbling pufferfish from uncertified chefs, then dropping dead.
Source should be easy to find, many food channels talk about it.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

As enjoyable as listening to the sizzle of Nazis circa 1945 in Berlin would have been, I honestly believe after Hitler Final Solution'd himself in the mouth that we should have rounded up whatever remained of the Wehrmacht and rolled with them towards Moscow before making Red Square have record high temperatures.



I fucking know TCM stands for "Traditional Chinese Medicine", but fuck me if I can't stop reading "Turner Classic Movies" every time somebody here says it.

Would probably be more effective sending them a bunch of old James Stewart films to watch than sending a bunch of old cooks peddling pangolin penises or whatever it is they're doing.

Honestly that "keeping a pet monster to fight a bigger evil" shit's retarded af. The cold war really basically went about as well as it could've, and I could go into the largest autistic rant about how that's precisely how we got the nazis to begin with, and in fact how WW1 got as bad as it did to begin with too. Because President Wilson of the USA and the British Secret Service both got about as dumb as you could imagine during the whole late 19th and early 20th centuries. But I'll just say, it has a really bad track record as a strategy.

Tbf, most of the masks are probably made in China.
This whole crisis just shows how globalism completely fucked over supply lines by having them all relying on the same country rather than have any redundancy. I'd rather have some protectionism that will at least make sure my country isn't fucked over if someone in China sneezes.

Nah they're burgerland made. It is indeed chinese scalpers bulking them in hopes of getting money by having their families resell them over there. Fucking idiots somehow didn't figure the CCP would intercept the hell out of their shit.

Seriously we have to deal with chinese scalpers with far more than masks. This is just the most obvious case yet because normies got nervous about it. But if you've seen chinese businessmen you've seen people who send to china whatever they think can be sold at a premium over there by their families.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

omg I wanna cuddle it before I eat it. :/ like serious who look at and be like food?

Hungry people.

Folks gotta remember the Chinese are a generation or so removed from peasants. Within living memory they dealt with the hunger that was far worse than any Grapes of Wrath Oklahoma dust bowl. Back country hillbillies to this day eat weird critters because of that. Imagine that applied to a country of a billion people that went through far worse in the 1960's.

 

[dopy]

I have a friend who is heading to Indonesia for business in April. When I talked to them last, they were pretty much closing their eyes, covering their ears and chanting 'lalala can't hear you' whenever the subject of Coronachan came up. Seems that to some people, merely contemplating this brings in 'bad energy' and if you ignore it you'll be safe. They told me about how they flew around for work in empty planes during SARS and they were just fine.

I worry, but what am I going to do?

Safe journeys, Kiwi and godspeed.

it'll be a grievous wound to Communism as a whole

excuse my exceptionally bad hegelianism here but war (death) is the method by which humanity (or any complex system) ultimately learns - though the point is somewhat tautological in the sense that all living (complex) systems are evolutionary. "not everything that happens will happen for a reason, but everything that survives will survive for a reason."
communism & socialism will not "die" until they are "killed" in outright, full-on war - just like fascism, slavery, absolutism and the old-style monarchical systems, etc. people today continue to believe them because something something bioleninism.

corona-chan will force humanity to learn a bit about heavy global centralization, and perhaps () will force the chinese citizenry to think about their own level of centralization, the same centralization which built a now-underwater hospital due to rain (can't find the video ITT atm) in only six days. thank you, CCP, very cool!

some countries will "get" it, some won't. i highly doubt the US (i.e., the elites who run the US) will get the message because they are invariably insulated from the costs, just like with deindustralization, heavy immigration legal and extralegal both suppressing wages, the ever-expanding welfare state allowing the dissolution family units of all sizes (UBI will be the big ticket for 2024-2028 i would imagine), failing infrastructure, etc. something something lack of skin in the game and so on and so on.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

You didn't include HK, but I've came across HKers that like to eat fried bugs. Centipedes, millipedes, spiders... ehhh
I like spiders (not eating them!!!) and the idea of eating centipedes makes my skin crawl, hard pass for me.
Australians eat kangaroo and rabbit meat, also honeypot ants, fried spiders. Difference is, it's prepared properly. I heard crocodiles taste like chicken, don't know and not interested to find out ever.

As for puffer fish, I can provide some insight.
- The chef needs to be licensed to serve puffer fish
- It's said to be very delicious, again I'd rather not find out
- Out of all the deaths, only one was from a certified chef, and the death wasn't really because of the poison
So yeah, nips gobbling pufferfish from uncertified chefs, then dropping dead.
Source should be easy to find, many food channels talk about it.

Ugh bugs, no thanks. About the puffer, it's very interesting. The poison is very powerful, just handling a tiny amount can kill you. There are accounts by Dutch sailors during the Tokugawa era in Japan about it. There's a haiku that goes something like I cannot see her anymore so I will eat fugu. Tetrodotoxin, the poison, is also the suspected active ingredient used in voodoo preparations in Haiti that cause zombies and there's tons of fictional accounts about it-the one I remember is the fugly SPECTRE woman trying to kill Bond with a knife that pops out of her shoe saturated with tetrodotoxin in From Russia With Love. Of course it's the japs that make Russian Roulette but with fish into an art form and memorable poems.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Hmmm? There are reports that there is a second lab in Wuhan. The Wuhan CDC. The lab works with live bats studying sars like coronavirus. Has had several breaches involving bites, blood or live ticks resulting in staff quarantine, is 200 yards from the Wet Market and adjacent to the first hospital hit.

Hmmmm?

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Hmmm? There are reports that there is a second lab in Wuhan. The Wuhan CDC. The lab works with live bats studying sars like coronavirus. Has had several breaches involving bites, blood or live ticks resulting in staff quarantine, is 200 yards from the Wet Market and adjacent to the first hospital hit.

Hmmmm?

This is all stuff we knew about weeks ago, isn't it?

 

[AMHOLIO]

To be fair, a few of the rural cuisines can be purchased from farms, like alligators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_farm) and snakes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_farm). The later is mostly used for research and antivenom collection, but they do sell commercial snake meat.

It's important to note that theres a big difference between hunting and eating any random thing rather than a carefully monitored population raised and vetted by experts. You will still get disease from the later and it's not always gonna taste good, but it is much less of a gamble.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

I've always suspected some low level tard working at the Wuhan lab snatching critters destined for the incinerator and instead selling them or some sloppy maintenance issue releasing infectious waste into the area. Here the Chinese have an obsession with food, especially weird and exotic food but it's mostly those born and raised in mainland China. I have rarely, if ever, heard Chinese from Taiwan or Singapore going on about eating strange critters (maybe they do, behind my back).

I have relatives that live in Asia and the Japanese have their own weird food fetishes, like fugu, which is expensive poisonous puffer fish. It's a status symbol thing to eat and then brag how you didn't die (I also heard that if you get a super tiny, tiny dose of the poison it gives you a buzz but I don't care to find out if that's true). There's always a few dumbass japs that die from eating fugu every year even though it's illegal to prepare the poisonous parts for consumption. The US has it's own weird food connoisseurs who eat raccoons, squirrels, possums, snakes, gators and whatnot but it's looked down upon, as in it's a low class hillbilly kind of thing. I don't get it, there's enough great meat/fish that doesn't kill you available. like wild salmon or longhorn beef. Squab is delicious, no need to grab them from the windowsill since markets here have the ones raised for eating.

Gator is great and can be found in reputable Cajun cuisine, not just hillbilly roadkill food. The meat on the tail is excellent.