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China Health Official Advises People Not to Touch Foreigners After 1st Monkeypox Case Reported
NTD/Reuters ^ | 9/19/2022 | Reuters

Posted on 09/19/2022 2:48:08 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

BEIJING—A senior Chinese health official advised people to avoid contact with foreigners to prevent monkeypox infection after the first known case of the virus was reported in China.

“To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that 1) you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday.

Wu also called for people to avoid such contact with people who have been abroad within the past three weeks as well as all “strangers,” as he cautioned vigilance.

(Excerpt) Read more at ntd.com ...


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1 posted on 09/19/2022 2:48:08 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

foreigners, is that code?


2 posted on 09/19/2022 2:49:28 PM PDT by MrHead (It is terrible to consider how few politicians are hanged. G.K.Chesterton)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

3 posted on 09/19/2022 2:52:43 PM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florids)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

But, Italians hugged Chinese visitors at the start of the Covid epidemic! They showed they weren’t racist. Does this mean the Chinese don’t have the same values?


4 posted on 09/19/2022 2:54:20 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: MrHead

Yes, no poking foreigners in the behind.


5 posted on 09/19/2022 2:55:21 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Right Wing Vegan

And don’t visit a penal colony.


6 posted on 09/19/2022 3:04:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: MrHead

“foreigners, is that code?”

Yes, it’s what they’re allowed to call you but you can’t call them.


7 posted on 09/19/2022 3:11:37 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Not sure I'd want a lot of Chinese people touching me anyway.


8 posted on 09/19/2022 3:16:21 PM PDT by DannyTN (5 )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Xenophobic!

Racist!


9 posted on 09/19/2022 3:22:45 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: heartwood
But, Italians hugged Chinese visitors at the start of the Covid epidemic! They showed they weren’t racist. Does this mean the Chinese don’t have the same values?

Haha. Yep, you definitely are a "racist" if you refuse foreigners the huggery... and moreover a "homophobe" if you refuse them the buggery. How is it that outright communists can be more nationalistic than their more subdued liberal counterparts?

10 posted on 09/19/2022 3:40:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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11 posted on 09/19/2022 3:44:38 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Is queerdom legal in China?


12 posted on 09/19/2022 3:46:10 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: MrHead

“foreigners, is that code?”

No.

Touch is code.


13 posted on 09/19/2022 3:56:36 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Meanwhile our CDC dare not tell people not to #$$# random strangers up the &*! at an orgy for fear of offending anyone.


14 posted on 09/19/2022 5:02:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Or a penile colony.


15 posted on 09/19/2022 5:11:16 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Does foreigners include Taiwanese?

Gonna make the invasion a little less hands-on, maybe...


16 posted on 09/19/2022 5:12:40 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: Right Wing Vegan

What do they know that we don’t?


17 posted on 09/19/2022 7:52:38 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: _longranger81

Oops, thanks...


18 posted on 09/20/2022 7:51:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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