[datura]

Good point. My in laws, and my former in laws were all fairly well off. Were...

Now having said that, my sister in law says that protein prices are through the roof now. It was bad enough when the African Swine Flu decimated their pork supplies, but now food is astronomical in Shanghai.

Brother in law and his son have been told to stay home again this week from their jobs.

[Zhang Fei]

[Brother in law and his son have been told to stay home again this week from their jobs.]

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If this is basically an undersized version of flu season, Xi Jinping is a hysterical, overwrought ninny. If. The tidal wave of ridicule that follows might (with a push from his always watchful Party rivals, some of whom he might even have promoted to their present positions) sweep him from power.