Noddaz
Noddaz UberDork
1/29/22 11:10 a.m.

A quote from Marc Silver at NPR about hamsters.

So Hong Kong's massive hamster cull, says transmission experts, was ... overkill.

 

Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
1/29/22 11:29 a.m.

 

 

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 MegaDork
1/29/22 1:30 p.m.

Genocide is pretty common over there.

triumph7
triumph7 HalfDork
1/29/22 1:34 p.m.
aircooled
aircooled MegaDork
1/29/22 5:16 p.m.

Not sure I get this one, unless hamster in Chinese is the same word as political dissident.

(a lot of there words have many different meanings, depending on context)

Stampie
Stampie MegaDork
1/29/22 5:34 p.m.

In reply to aircooled :

To prevent the spread of Omicron the Chinese government killed 2000ish hamsters in Hong Kong.  Hense it being an overkill reaction.

mad_machine
mad_machine MegaDork
1/29/22 9:08 p.m.

Just so long as Richard Hammond does not have to worry about going back to Hong Kong.

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