DAILY LIFE IN VIETNAM DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2020-2021

Andybris2020 wrote:

Jlgarbutt wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

They are not pets they are food, no one said you cant do take-away

How much? they have any ducks?

Imagine living next door to that.. the smelll must be terrible

yeah but they would get used to your smell

I lived in a house in Thu Duc in 2016 our rear neighbour had ducks. The smell would come into our house and it was unbearable. The owners were told not to have ducks, it never stopped them, they just ignored the law.

Jlgarbutt wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

goodolboy wrote:

WELL I,v SEEN IT ALL NOW..............

So gets a call to go gate 2 to pick up our order fresh corn & pineapple. On the way back I see this car being loaded up with small boxes about 15cm x 15cm x 15cm with slots cut in them so stops to have a look & they are crammed full of baby chickens. This guy is just throwing them into the car & 2 young woman watching him. So turns out this Vietnamese family are breeding chickens in their fn apartment. I dont know why after 14 years here there are still things shock me but somethings still do & this is supposed to be an up market development too.
I wanted to have a small dog & went to the management to ask & to do it all legal & above board. Oh no thats against the rules............................but breeding chickens is OK I suppose.

They are not pets they are food, no one said you cant do take-away

How much? they have any ducks?

Imagine living next door to that.. the smelll must be terrible

Think I need to clarify................think they must be getting eggs & incubating them, the amount of very small chicks in these boxes must have been a hundred or more so I suppose if it was grown hens producing that amount of eggs in a flat 75m2 it would be a bit over crowded right enough. Mind you if you had the hens racked up to the ceiling I suppose you could do it but as you say the pong would be unbearable

goodolboy wrote:

Jlgarbutt wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

They are not pets they are food, no one said you cant do take-away

How much? they have any ducks?

Imagine living next door to that.. the smelll must be terrible

Think I need to clarify................think they must be getting eggs & incubating them, the amount of very small chicks in these boxes must have been a hundred or more so I suppose if it was grown hens producing that amount of eggs in a flat 75m2 it would be a bit over crowded right enough. Mind you if you had the hens racked up to the ceiling I suppose you could do it but as you say the pong would be unbearable

My friend in Brisbane has incubators they hold over 1,000 eggs! and produce chicks every 3 weeks, so  the apartment could have had hundreds in there.

goodolboy wrote:

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Our Wall' by William Walker
Here inscribed the names of friends we knew,
Young men with whom we often flew.
Scrambled to many angels high,
They knew that they or friends might die.
Many were very scarcely trained,
And many badly burnt or maimed.
Behind each name a story lies
Of bravery in summer skies;
Though many brave unwritten tales
Were simply told in vapour trails.
Many now lie in sacred graves
And many rest beneath the waves.
Outnumbered every day they flew,
Remembered here as just 'The Few'.

More tests Covid tests at Emerald today, the information I got is that 4 out of 6 blocks have to get tested every 3 days now & not sure for how long it will go on for.

goodolboy wrote:

More tests Covid tests at Emerald today, the information I got is that 4 out of 6 blocks have to get tested every 3 days now & not sure for how long it will go on for.

Test every three days is going to be hard going on the old nose.

Better safe than sorry I guess

goodolboy wrote:

More tests Covid tests at Emerald today, the information I got is that 4 out of 6 blocks have to get tested every 3 days now & not sure for how long it will go on for.

That's not a bad thing if they have people making food and selling it all over the complex,, its the same guidelines they are now doing with restaurants?

Or maybe they have high numbers there?

We have had 3 a week apart, last one was on 8th not heard of anything yet about another.

Jlgarbutt wrote:

goodolboy wrote:

More tests Covid tests at Emerald today, the information I got is that 4 out of 6 blocks have to get tested every 3 days now & not sure for how long it will go on for.

Test every three days is going to be hard going on the old nose.

Better safe than sorry I guess

Imagine how all the delivery drivers are doing their noses must be very sore, I know they get paid but it must be dam hard doing that all the time and waiting around for hrs waiting.

Andybris2020 wrote:

Jlgarbutt wrote:

goodolboy wrote:

More tests Covid tests at Emerald today, the information I got is that 4 out of 6 blocks have to get tested every 3 days now & not sure for how long it will go on for.

Test every three days is going to be hard going on the old nose.

Better safe than sorry I guess

Imagine how all the delivery drivers are doing their noses must be very sore, I know they get paid but it must be dam hard doing that all the time and waiting around for hrs waiting.

Not sure, but I suspect it takes one days wages to pay for the covid test. About 10,000 D on the average per delivery is not much.

Andybris2020 wrote:

Imagine how all the delivery drivers are doing their noses must be very sore, I know they get paid but it must be dam hard doing that all the time and waiting around for hrs waiting.

All the delivery people and volunteers in VT have been tested every 3 days for the last two months.  Certain Lotte Mart and FPT employees here also have to do the same thing because the supermarket and several FPT shops use their regular employees to deliver.  The test is quick, 20 minutes from the beginning to the result.

devarj57 wrote:

Not sure, but I suspect it takes one days wages to pay for the covid test. About 10,000 D on the average per delivery is not much.

It's mass testing, which the companies pay as it's the requirement when they applied for permission to do business during lockdown.  In the case of volunteers, no one pays.

I just got a message to go get 2nd shot 9am 18th sept.

GF hasn't had the message.

Andybris2020 wrote:

I just got a message to go get 2nd shot 9am 18th sept.

GF hasn't had the message.

Did you both get the same brand for first shot?  Different brands have different intervals.

THIGV wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

I just got a message to go get 2nd shot 9am 18th sept.

GF hasn't had the message.

Did you both get the same brand for first shot?  Different brands have different intervals.

8:23am let you know after i get it.....

Andybris2020 wrote:

THIGV wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

I just got a message to go get 2nd shot 9am 18th sept.

GF hasn't had the message.

Did you both get the same brand for first shot?  Different brands have different intervals.

8:23am let you know after i get it.....

Sorry, I meant did you get a different brand than the GF when you got the first shot.  For example, did you get AZ while she got Moderna?

Andybris2020 wrote:

THIGV wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

I just got a message to go get 2nd shot 9am 18th sept.

GF hasn't had the message.

Did you both get the same brand for first shot?  Different brands have different intervals.

8:23am let you know after i get it.....

Went in at 8.45, GF wrote down my info on paper before i went, showed it, they helped fill in form,,, walked me to seat, i had pfizer this time all done at 8.55,,, sat waiting for effects or vac paperwork,,, very slick operation.
10/10

Coronavirus concerns see China halt Vietnam’s US$1 billion dragon fruit trade
China is the top destination for Vietnamese dragon fruit – representing over 80 per cent of total shipments and amounting to US$1 billion a year
Authorities in the Guangxi region, bordering Vietnam, found traces of coronavirus on packaging and cardboard boxes shipped from Quang Ninh province.


China has suspended imports of dragon fruit from Vietnam following the detection of coronavirus, temporarily halting a US$1 billion market as Beijing continues its vigorous testing of inbound food shipments for virus risk.
Imports of the tropical fruit have been suspended for a week beginning on Wednesday, Vietnam’s trade ministry said on its website.
Authorities in China’s Guangxi region, bordering Vietnam, informed the ministry of the halt after the coronavirus was found on packaging and cardboard boxes shipped from Quang Ninh province.
“It is quite a rare incident,” said Dang Phuc Nguyen, general secretary of Vietnam Vegetable and Fruit Association. “Workers at fruit-processing factories are required by the government to stay on site, test against Covid-19 regularly, and they are vaccinated.”

China is the top destination for Vietnamese dragon fruit – representing over 80 per cent of total shipments and amounting to US$1 billion a year, according to Nguyen.
Dragon fruits make up one third of Vietnam’s exp

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-econ … gn=3149115

Jlgarbutt wrote:

Coronavirus concerns see China halt Vietnam’s US$1 billion dragon fruit trade

I can't help thinking that there are political considerations at play here.   Back in 2020 people were rather paranoid about surface transmission but that concern seems to have waned as scientists became more aware of the respiratory aspects.   This article states that the virus can only live for about 24 hours on cardboard surfaces.  Even then it would be difficult to pick it up and have it enter ones nasal passages. 

I think China is trying to act "holier than thou" to offset criticism about the origins and escape of the virus back in 2019.

THIGV wrote:

Jlgarbutt wrote:

Coronavirus concerns see China halt Vietnam’s US$1 billion dragon fruit trade

I can't help thinking that there are political considerations at play here.   Back in 2020 people were rather paranoid about surface transmission but that concern seems to have waned as scientists became more aware of the respiratory aspects.   This article ___ states that the virus can only live for about 24 hours on cardboard surfaces.  Even then it would be difficult to pick it up and have it enter ones nasal passages. 

I think China is trying to act "holier than thou" to offset criticism about the origins and escape of the virus back in 2019.

That doesn't sound like China.

Probably more likely that this is an opportunity to remind Vietnam that the USA is only their #2 trading partner:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088018/vietnam-main-import-trade-partners-by-trade-value/

Certainly China can't be too happy about Vietnam being so cordial to President Harris during her recent visit during which the "Strengthening of the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership" was announced.

THIGV wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

THIGV wrote:

Did you both get the same brand for first shot?  Different brands have different intervals.

8:23am let you know after i get it.....

Sorry, I meant did you get a different brand than the GF when you got the first shot.  For example, did you get AZ while she got Moderna?

We both got AZ which was only one our ward vac station had on 7th August, that ran out 17th sept now its Pfizer,,, she has had no text yet, i guess she will get same unless they run out of it.
We dont seem to be getting multi choice.

Andybris2020 wrote:

We dont seem to be getting multi choice.

I don't think it has been tested and it is mostly conjecture but some doctors have speculated that it might actually be better to have two different products if it stimulates different parts of the immune system.

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

Vietnam being so cordial to President Harris during her recent visit

Is that parapraxis intentional?

THIGV wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

We dont seem to be getting multi choice.

I don't think it has been tested and it is mostly conjecture but some doctors have speculated that it might actually be better to have two different products if it stimulates different parts of the immune system.

Com-Covid study led by University of Oxford - preliminary results is YES it does give better protection stimulating more antibodies as you stated.

Now where is the "I want a Green-Card" website lol

Ciambella wrote:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

Vietnam being so cordial to President Harris during her recent visit

Is that parapraxis intentional?

He has a time machine and reporting from next week,,,,

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.








Techniques are "Army crawl", "wish I was taller", "crouching tiger not so hidden dragon" & the "frog crawl"

Andybris2020 wrote:

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.






https://i.postimg.cc/4dVSQn5g/Screensho … -45-19.png

Why are the two women in the top right photo in dress suits?  It's not usual seeing Vietnamese women all dressed up that way.  Stranger still, the one in purple wears Birkenstock thong sandals, definitely not Vietnamese favourite footwear.

Ciambella wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.






https://i.postimg.cc/4dVSQn5g/Screensho … -45-19.png

Why are the two women in the top right photo in dress suits?  It's not usual seeing Vietnamese women all dressed up that way.  Stranger still, the one in purple wears Birkenstock thong sandals, definitely not Vietnamese favourite footwear.

Omg! They even dressed for the photo shoot, sad that you can brand name the shoes any relation to Jigs wife?
Haha

Ciambella wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.






https://i.postimg.cc/4dVSQn5g/Screensho … -45-19.png

Why are the two women in the top right photo in dress suits?  It's not usual seeing Vietnamese women all dressed up that way.  Stranger still, the one in purple wears Birkenstock thong sandals, definitely not Vietnamese favourite footwear.

Maybe Birkenstock knockoffs from a factory in Dong Nai.

colinoscapee wrote:

Maybe Birkenstock knockoffs from a factory in Dong Nai.

They're certainly knockoff, but between knockoff Birkenstock and knockoff XYZ (any brand name here), Vietnamese would go for the latter.  Birks is not the preferred name in this country, even honeycomb slippers rank above Birks.

Andybris2020 wrote:

Omg! They even dressed for the photo shoot, sad that you can brand name the shoes any relation to Jigs wife?

I've always been able to identify shoes, a knowledge acquired from training contestants for the local level of Miss USA Pageant in the '90s.

Ciambella wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

Omg! They even dressed for the photo shoot, sad that you can brand name the shoes any relation to Jigs wife?

I've always been able to identify shoes, a knowledge acquired from training contestants for the local level of Miss USA Pageant in the '90s.

Ill let Colin know they want his mankini back,,,,

Andybris2020 wrote:

Ciambella wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

Omg! They even dressed for the photo shoot, sad that you can brand name the shoes any relation to Jigs wife?

I've always been able to identify shoes, a knowledge acquired from training contestants for the local level of Miss USA Pageant in the '90s.

Ill let Colin know they want his mankini back,,,,

Ciambella, if youre looking for an intelligent conversation, please contact me. If not, please keep conversing with people on here who are not on the same intellectual level that we.

colinoscapee wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

Ciambella wrote:

I've always been able to identify shoes, a knowledge acquired from training contestants for the local level of Miss USA Pageant in the '90s.

Ill let Colin know they want his mankini back,,,,

Ciambella, if youre looking for an intelligent conversation, please contact me. If not, please keep conversing with people on here who are not on the same intellectual level that we.

are,,,,, you forgot the are at the end in your intellectual conversation.

Andybris2020 wrote:

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.






https://i.postimg.cc/4dVSQn5g/Screensho … -45-19.png

Techniques are "Army crawl", "wish I was taller", "crouching tiger not so hidden dragon" & the "frog crawl"

brilliant

Ciambella wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

New Army assault course in HCMC gets a trail run.






https://i.postimg.cc/4dVSQn5g/Screensho … -45-19.png

Why are the two women in the top right photo in dress suits?  It's not usual seeing Vietnamese women all dressed up that way.  Stranger still, the one in purple wears Birkenstock thong sandals, definitely not Vietnamese favourite footwear.

Would have preferred the demonstration team to be you her and in a either a tasteful Ao Dai, better still something from Victoria secrete night time range

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colinoscapee wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

Ciambella wrote:

I've always been able to identify shoes, a knowledge acquired from training contestants for the local level of Miss USA Pageant in the '90s.

Ill let Colin know they want his mankini back,,,,

Ciambella, if youre looking for an intelligent conversation, please contact me. If not, please keep conversing with people on here who are not on the same intellectual level that we.

Are you implying we are not intelligent enough? We are clearly higher up the evolutionary Chian making light of the pandemic.. 🤪

Jlgarbutt wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

Andybris2020 wrote:

Ill let Colin know they want his mankini back,,,,

Ciambella, if youre looking for an intelligent conversation, please contact me. If not, please keep conversing with people on here who are not on the same intellectual level that we.

Are you implying we are not intelligent enough? We are clearly higher up the evolutionary Chian making light of the pandemic.. 🤪

Be nice he may brood and be sat waiting for us under a bridge when we visit VT