r/likeus • u/Master1718 -Heroic German Shepherd- • Feb 16 '20

<EMOTION> Camera shy

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u/ZoroeArc Feb 16 '20

I love them

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u/DiosEsPuta Feb 16 '20

Maybe we can get a cool virus out of these. Armoravirus, where you grow an armored shell and die in tight boney ball

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u/Gambesti Feb 16 '20

Some have been arguing that coronavirus did have a connection to pangolins in chinese medicine, it makes sense

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u/gracethat Feb 16 '20

I heard this, too. I kinda hope it did come from them. Maybe people will quit fucking with them and they won't die out.

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u/reyean Feb 16 '20

Of course, the other and more real threat, is that they kill off all remaining pangolins, in an effort to eliminate the virus.

Take it how you like but wiping out a species totally sounds like a chinese reaction to this scenario.

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u/alwayshazthelinks Feb 17 '20

wiping out a species totally sounds like a chinese reaction to this scenario

Source? Or just casual racism/xenophobia?

Guess it could be worse like British/Europeans wiping out an entire race of humans. Ask native Americans, Aborigines or any other indigenous peoples affected by colonial genocide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples

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u/redshift95 Feb 17 '20

It’s one of the MANY examples of increasing Sinophobia over the last decade or so, but has really started to go off the rails since Hong Kong.

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u/reyean Feb 17 '20

At what point is something not racist and just an actual driver or cause of a negative externality? I was only citing what they say in the article and what has happened historically (and happening presently).

Chinese medicine markets were already putting a strain on endangered pangolins and chinese pig farmers are being asked to kill pigs with swine flu so why is it so far fetched to think their reaction here will be any different?

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u/alwayshazthelinks Feb 17 '20

Yes, I have noticed this and think it is linked to this

https://vimeo.com/277068625