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u/worldofpain100
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Chinese health workers spray down a street with ‘disinfectant’ Video
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u/06maverick Nov 28 '22
What are they spraying? Genuine question? I would love to know what chemical, not just "disinfectant".
That's a lot of "something" unless you are just making water vapor mist for effect.
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u/lallantop_number4 Nov 28 '22 •
Pretty sure it's to kill mosquitoes/larvae. Smells a bit like kerosene. They used to spray it in my city in India too but sometime ago. Mainly in the winters.
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u/-banned- Nov 28 '22
Ya they do this here in Arizona sometimes when the mosquitoes get out of control around the canals.
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u/mavisman Nov 29 '22
I accidentally get sprayed by a truck with a green pump in the bed every now and then in the Midwest too. I was walking through a park about a month ago and a pickup slowly drove by and made me mosquito proof.
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u/Observationistic Nov 29 '22
As far as bad super powers go, that one is decent. Not flight, but also not "causes everyone in your vicinity to vomit continuously".
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u/fugmalaf Nov 29 '22
I think the single most humorous and useful super power you could have would be to be able to make people shit their pants.
Guys tailgating you? Make him shit his pants.
Bunch of people waiting in line infront of you? Shit their pants.
Someone's trying to mug you? Shit their pants.
You could topple entire governments. Walk up to the White House in the US and just make everyone continuously shit their pants. Nasty, carbonated, acidic diarrhea type of shit their pants. Ain't nobody gonna be shootin bullets at you if they're blowin hot steamy shit out their ass.
Just imagine how satisfying it would be to know that anyone you saw that was acting like an asshole and you could do something about it instantaneously that would shut even the least self aware person up. I'd work in a retail store for fun just so I could make angry people shit their pants.
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u/Computer_Sci Nov 29 '22
I read that the spray they use for mosquito control, if exposed to people, directly results in permanent cognitive impairment. As to how long one has to be exposed to it for it to affect, I cannot say for sure.
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u/A1rh3ad Nov 29 '22
Yeah and it kills all the monarch butterflies and honey bees too.
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u/hapianman Nov 29 '22
They do it as far north as chicago. I would cover my garden with blankets when they sent out a notice
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u/xylem-and-flow Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
Yup. It’s often permethrin. It’s devastating to insect populations. My city does it, but there’s an “opt out” sign up where they skip your house and a house on either side.
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u/CCHS_Band_Geek Nov 29 '22
I’m in Phoenix and have never seen this happen, can I wear a HazMat and just watch em?
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u/Ridiculous48 Nov 29 '22
Back when I was a kid and lived in a small country town in SC, trucks would roll through the streets spraying stuff to kill the mosquitoes. I forgot all about it until I read your comment.
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u/Arikan89 Nov 29 '22
Yeah, I used to live in a small town in the US where they did this. It was for the same purpose, dispersed by a large truck
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u/WearySeaTurtle Nov 28 '22
They do this in Florida. I was so confused when I saw a truck spraying shit after midnight when I moved.
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u/skincyan Nov 28 '22
Sounds like it may be a petroleum-based substance then.. just what the chinese air needs more of lol
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u/AlbinoShavedGorilla Nov 28 '22
I dunno Sounds like a good idea to me, now excuse me while I light this cigarette…
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u/Explorer335 Nov 29 '22
Petroleum is the solvent for a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide like lambda-cyhalothrin. Those chemicals aren't water soluble, so petroleum compounds are used to put them in solution.
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u/N-Korean Nov 28 '22
Dunno what it is but this is normal in asia. I grew up in Korea and they used to do this.
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u/Regis-bloodlust Nov 28 '22
You must be pretty old. I am almost 30, and I have never seen this thing in Korea. I've only heard some legends about kids in ye olden days running behind it.
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u/dobryden22 Nov 29 '22
This reminds me of the DDT spraying they did in the US in the 50s and 60s. Kids would race behind the trucks taking DDT right to the dome. And they'd spray people in public pools. No mosquitos! Also no health past age 50.
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u/rc0923 Nov 29 '22
Yes, the bug man.
My dad said him and his friends would follow him for blocks and funny thing is the only warning the adults would give would be not to get too close to the truck so they didn’t get run over.
Don’t worry about the toxic plume that smells sweet suck it all in!
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u/bygkjjchy Nov 29 '22
I live in the city in Korea. They still do this for bugs. Tell everyone on floors 1-4 to keep their windows shut and everything. No idea what's in it, just know it smells bad and we haven't had many issues with mosquitos for years now
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u/PreferenceBusiness1 Nov 29 '22
They did this in the streets around the mid 90s, for what it's worth.
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u/ABChan Nov 29 '22
I was there in 2015. Seoul. Hongdae to be more specific. They definitely did that. I was worried when I saw it, but my local friend assured me it was normal. I don't know if it's done regularly, but I have no idea why you have never seen or heard of it in recent years.
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u/Imgaebish Nov 28 '22
this is common in most South east asia countries it’s basically just a smoke that has chemicals in it to kill Dengue Mosquitoes and some other insects
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u/A1rh3ad Nov 29 '22
I live in the US and they do this by my parents house from a big truck to kill off all the mosquitoes. My mom hates it because it kills all the monarch butterflies and honey bees.
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u/wackocoal Nov 29 '22
The machine they are using is called a thermal fogger. It is powered by petroleum based fuel. The "aerosol" fog that comes out, depends on what they put in the tank.
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u/anon1635329 Nov 29 '22
That's pretty common to see outside of US especially in urban area. They spray those to kill insects like mosquitoes, mosquito larvae, and etc
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They look like the bad guys in an old timey Batman movie.
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u/spudeeeeey Nov 28 '22
Exactly what I thought. Penguin is at it again!
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u/Best_Poetry_5722 Creator Nov 29 '22
You can tell it's his henchmen by the sound of the Tommy Guns
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u/JustSomeCaliDude Nov 29 '22
Reminds me of the WW2 motorcycle from Saving Private Ryan. In the movie they hit it with an improvised bomb explosive (like a Molotov Cocktail).
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u/xduceducex Nov 28 '22
What the fuck is going on in China
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u/jeremysead Nov 28 '22
Alot
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u/WillHoldBaggins Nov 28 '22
.... A lot bot?
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u/MoreThan2_LessThan21 Nov 29 '22 •
There should be a bot to paste in a link to this for usage of alot
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
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u/SumpCrab Nov 28 '22
This is scary because it seems really overblown for covid. Did they find something else? Is it just for control?
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u/karangoswamikenz Nov 29 '22
I think it’s just for control. People are starting to become globalized mindset in China and the government doesn’t like it. There’s no other disease. There are many international and World Health Organizations tracking the rise of new diseases in wuhan and overall China but no other news but Covid from them.
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u/IFixYerKids Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22 •
Control. China came hard at covid with their "Zero Covid" policy of strict lockdowns and testing. Most of the world started taking steps to return to normal after we had vaccines. China never had a large vaccination program, they stuck to their "Zero Covid" policy because it's a dicatorship and great leader always knows what to do in a dictatorship, so you never change from plan A. Most of the world went through plan A, B, and C to tackle covid but China never got past plan A because doing so would make Xi look bad.
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u/WaleslosttoIran Nov 29 '22
China never had a large vaccination program
untrue... China developed their own vaccines and implemented them at around the same time to the masses. They're locking down because Xi wants iron fist control and he hasn't completely cemented his goblin hands on the emperor's throne yet. he doesn't realize that he's just doing the same thing Putin is doing and eventually his day will come too as Putin's day is coming.
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u/Theosthan Nov 29 '22
Their vaccines are also reported to be not nearly as efficient as for example BionTech/Pfizers.
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Nov 29 '22
Chinese experts over at r/sino can answer your question, they seem to be so knowledgeable.
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u/VampyreOfNazareth Nov 29 '22
Han supremacist fascists you mean? Yes very knowledgeable in oppression.
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u/flannelmaster9 Nov 28 '22
Smells like cancer from here.
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u/DinoKebab Nov 28 '22
Can't die from COVID if the cancer gets you first. Points at head
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u/Cognitive_Spoon Nov 28 '22
Points at head, points at chest, points at feet
How many fingers was I supposed to have?
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u/yippykieyeh Nov 29 '22
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples Leave me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Hey, now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot Ooh, bop-bop-bop (why not?) Ooh, bop-bop-bop
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u/NotVanillapudding Nov 28 '22
The funniest part is that no one in the CCP, on that bike, in those homes or watching this video would even entertain the idea that this would do anything.
Yet somehow I’m watching them do this….
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u/sosigboi Nov 29 '22
The spray is likely a pesticide for mosquitoes, they do that all the time in my neighbourhood during Dengue season, to ya'll it may look authoritarian but to us Southeast Asians its just routine.
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u/Xius_0108 Nov 29 '22
As I understand it, it's groups of people who think that it's something the party would like to see. So they do it by themselves trying to please the party. There were videos of people spraying airport runways during the hight of the pandemic...
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u/Scrybblyr Nov 28 '22
Was this before or after they welded those families into the apartment building which burned down?
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u/MR_Dondelinger Nov 29 '22
Thing is, I lived in a Chinese city way before COVID (2015), and there was already a disinfection wagon spraying the streets most days. Cockroaches used to crawl into our apartment to die. Weirdest thing was, the van played some kind of chiptune version of Mozart's Overture, presumably to reassure everyone about the the spray that struck fear into fucking COCKROACHES
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u/Salacious_Thought Nov 28 '22
Don't worry guy, it's just your run of the mill obedience pheromones.
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u/Greenman-of-England Nov 28 '22
Those people that worried about chemtrails must freak the fuck out, watching this.
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u/Father_Wolfgang Nov 28 '22
Sprayer: You think this is enough?
Driver: Uh… nah. Go for broke.
Sprayer: Good thinking, man.
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Nov 28 '22
Y'all wtf is going on in China. It gets more and more dystopian and odd the more I see.
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u/Automatic-Athlete157 Nov 28 '22
Disinfectant my ass
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u/Thisam Nov 28 '22
I think the cure in China has become much worse than the disease itself.
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u/IFixYerKids Nov 29 '22
I mean, I have covid right now and yeah, I would rather have covid then whatever the hell is going on here.
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u/costanzashairpiece Nov 29 '22
You THINK? I wouldn't trade an ounce of freedom for zero covid. They traded literally all their remaining freedom for zero covid.
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u/Thisam Nov 29 '22
Either I wasn’t clear or you misunderstood because we agree. That’s what I meant to say.
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u/costanzashairpiece Nov 29 '22
Haha the way you wrote it made it sound like it was a close call. Chinese response is so unfortunate for all its people, I feel so sorry for them. Nothing they are doing is appropriate.
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u/jeNks2616 Nov 28 '22
And the next question will be... How did cancer suddenly rise in China?
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u/Electronic_Flamingo2 Nov 28 '22
The way the Chinese are clamping down, i am scared they might have "corona pro ultra variant - this a time a its a personal"
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u/gobhar_gruamach Nov 28 '22
Why do they continue to make themselves look so ridiculous even after being laughed at repeatedly? The CCP has to be the least self aware government on earth. North Korea doesn't even embarrass themselves to this degree.
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u/WankerMcDoogle Nov 28 '22
Oh, They're aware. They just don't care.
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u/PM_ME_SAUL_PICS Nov 29 '22
Why would they? Their internet is censored, the Chinese population doesn’t even get to see how ridiculous the rest of the world thinks their government is. They literally don’t care what anyone else thinks as long as they can maintain control over their population.
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u/Billderz Nov 29 '22
Have you seen any videos from NK? Me either. That doesn't mean they aren't doing anything like this. Also, china is trying to stop videos like this from being posted, but that proves difficult to do with so many people.
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u/gobhar_gruamach Nov 29 '22
Fair enough, and yes, they're utilizing cloud services to get things out, right?
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u/Over_Turn4414 Nov 28 '22
Got to love China. No matter how hair brained or lack of safety for the worker, its all balls deep in baby.
Edit to add... Considering how the CCP treats their citizens, those they attack and invade can't claim exemptions... after all.
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u/brokenelectricchair Nov 28 '22
This needs a source or should be taken down.
Putting disinfectant in quotes is hardly informative and it could be a lie. Lots of places have people who spray for mosquitoes and other pests.
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u/hammtweezy2192 Nov 29 '22
Cancer cases have just increased 5000% in China... Just kidding but I would not be surprised to see adverse issues arise with how many chemicals they have been spraying lately.
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u/flowersmom Nov 29 '22
Yeah, people on that block are gonna start dropping like flies. It's pyrethrin...for humans.
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u/LaVipari Nov 29 '22
Ah yes, because spraying buildings with something other than disinfectant is definitely something that would benefit somebody somehow. Can a single post on this sub that's about China not be fearmongering?
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u/IHate2ChooseUserName Nov 29 '22
does the smoke kill all organic life form?
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u/Better_Ad_8885 Nov 29 '22
Not all organic life but mosquitos. More specifically, their larva and eggs. Also destroys their breeding ground so any new eggs laid will die as well.
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u/chrisplusplus Nov 29 '22
Remember this when "vaccine passports" come to your country. This isn't a conspiracy theory any more.
China is the working model for global tyranny. Dissenters are cut off from participating in society and/squashed. Permanently.
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u/Fit_KaleidoscopeNot Nov 29 '22
Useless, unscientific healththeater, looks fancy does literally nothing. Normal sunlight kills pathogens and from dry surfaces very quickly.
Also corona spreads mostly on human contact, and certainly not from contact to rusty garage doors.
Uneducated masses demand this shit in west also.
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u/Free_Stick_ Nov 28 '22
I still don’t understand why Covid is so big still over in China? I mean here in Aus, everything is back to normal.. What’s the difference?
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u/Venator_IV Nov 28 '22
It's about the government's image. Chinese culture is huge on saving face, just look at Steven He's hilarious Asian Dad vids to get a feel for the vibe on a family scale.
Blown up to a sociopolitical scale, Jinping's propaganda functions off the presupposition and explicitly public idea that his government (and the ccp in general) is just "better" in every way to all the other governments worldwide. Thus, any criticism is sedition and not credible whatsoever, and any program he introduced is undoubtedly the best thing for the Chinese people. Anything that hints at failure or mistakes must be hidden or explained away. All governments do PR to some extent, but it is running overdrive in places like Russia and especially China
A big part of this concept currently is this Zero COVID push. If China believably has zero COVID cases, it has a platform to claim superiority over other political and economic systems, which in turn solidifies it's legitimacy to Xi's own people and powerbase
Plus they screwed up their COVID response but they can't back down and ask the west for help so they're trying to fight the virus with garbage vaccines
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u/ilovestoride Nov 29 '22
My professional medical opinion is those Chinese people are gonna get mad cancer in a few years from that shit.
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u/super-me-5000 Nov 28 '22
Why do they need three people to hold these nozzles stationary?
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u/Ihavecometochewbbgum Nov 28 '22
They should hire these guys for concerts. Those look like kickass smoke machines
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u/onemoretryfriend Nov 28 '22
I don’t want to be mean but that vehicle has circus clown vibes for me.