Would it help if Wanhua were banned? Just thinking outside the box
No. Some people like drinking tea with experienced experts.
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You speak from lots of experience of course.
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Experience breeds experience!
Oddest pornhub category ever.
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Oh no. There are weirder ones than that. 
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Iām thinking lemon party with elderly bears who are into obscure tea serving practices.
Lemon Party is my porn nameā¦
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So with students back in class this week not sure I understand why some buses in Taichung have blocked off the front seats as part of epidemic preventionā¦saw a couple of buses filled to the brim with students heading homeā¦I was impressed the lady at my stop was able the somehow squeeze her way inā¦the 2 extra seats being open would probably be quite a bit of relief for the people being squeezed into the bus doors.
My uni is teaching online for the first two weeks of the semester. Not ideal from a teacherās perspective, but understandable.
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sounds like weāre returning to the Led Zeppelin references!
how come itās only reported now, 2 months later?
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Thatās odd, weāre back in the classroom from the first week (9/13). It might be a bit tougher since group activities probably wonāt be allowed, but better than online at least. Maybe because youāre in the north?
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Weird. Maybe someone in the Taiwanese government read about Rosa Parks and segregating buses and thought āI want me some of that.ā And thus it became part of epidemic prevention measures.
Could also be about keeping distance between the driver and passengers, of course.
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With the 7-8 people crowded into the same space surrounding the driver thereās not any space for him either really. The seats are backwards facing too and people could always stand by the drivers too regardless on empty buses and itās never been a problem. So itās a really weird decisionā¦
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Maybe. The decisions seem to be local. I am in the north.
In general there doesnāt seem to be a national strategy of sorts. I wonder whether thatās the key to Taiwanās success?
I donāt know. Itās stupid though. Itās perfectly safe to hold in-person classes now. Theyāre really not good with cost-benefit analysis. If thereās hundreds of cases a dayā¦ then obviously you work from home. But currently half the days of the week thereās zero cases and everything below uni, from buxibans to elementary schools, are back in physical classrooms (buxibans and daycares have been back for a month already with no spreading events occurring as a result). So this all seems like spectacle to show how cautious theyāre being, while uni students are deprived of the social interaction they need and the campus life theyāre paying for.
And now Iām going off on rants about a uni I donāt even work for or know anything about, so time for bed.
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Thatās occurred to me before with more trivial things. Some different cultural way of looking at things. I donāt know.
Perfectly embodied by the old guys weaving in and out of traffic on their cheap scooter without a helmet and chewing wads of cancerous betelnut under their masksā¦ but hey, at least theyāre wearing masks!
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