Naomi Wu 机械妖姬

We're going to be getting more of these odd sort of time-traveler takes from people coming to China from places that have not grasped the science of infection prevention yet and are completely bewildered.

Day 1: Complete lack of chamber pots and spittoons, extremely uncivilized. https://t.co/Cgw0zYVwbR

Day 2: The Celestials have demanded I bathe for the second time this year.
Day 3: I now have the flux- surely from their excessive bathing demands. Not a decent leach or bloodletter to be found.
Day 4: Baptized my heathen occidental jailers.

Day 5: Excommunicated them for not allowing me to spread pestilence as is my god-given right.

It's kind of like they've been transported from certain places a thousand years ago and now it's just "waddya mean I have to wash my hands?" or "Why is there a dog in your tiny outhouse? and oh by the way I wiped my ass with him because I figured that's what he was there for."

*Yes- there are ample things to complain about in how Shanghai handles COVID, but the foreigners there who have been through the worst of it, side by side with us, save their derision for the worst of it and don't treat what has saved millions of lives with patronizing dismissal.

Mon Oct 03 13:34:32 +0000 2022