Happy Chinese New Year 2020!!!

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Happy Year of the Rat

(and everybody was Kung Flu Fighting)

 

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Lev Parnas!  Come on down!

 

Wait...what?

i saw a personalized plate yesterday that read DRUBA...

Old school at the Oakland Auditorium...

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There were some great celebrations of the Lunar New Year at the Oakland Aud/Kaiser. Big fun.

 

I'm an Earth Rat.

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Gung Hay Fat Choy!

<I'm an Earth Rat

I'm a hog for you baby - 1959

Find your chinese zodiac sign, here. 

chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/

I'm a Tiger!

Judit, I remember going to chinese new year shows in late 80s / early 90s -- loved those!

85% of asian people at work have masks on today...

F China 

We know someone who is on vacation from a job in China - he was just informed that his vacation has been extended due to the coronavirus. Ironically,  he's vacationing on Coron in the Philippines, and in no rush to return to work. Not a bad deal

The CDC has issued a level 3 (highest) warning recommending that all non-essential travel to the entire country of China be avoided. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-china
A Hong Kong newspaper reported that the death toll has climbed to 106 with over 4200 confirmed cases worldwide. An NPR report this morning said a Hong Kong coronavirus expert who worked on SARS said that a worse case scenario would be 150,000 cases per day and that he expected it would peak in April or May. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799925265/coronavirus-continues-to-spread

gong hay fat choy! this is my year. i hadn't been aware of the double cycle (12 and 5). Judit is an Earth Rat, I'm a Metal Rat, 12 years younger.

Thought a woman on the bus last night was going to cough up an entire organ.  Like . . . a B-3.

Tissue shelves at Shop-Rite today were pretty much wiped out.  One of those Costco-sized bundles and a few tiny, boutique-type brand boxes.

On the positive side, baby backs for 1.88/lb.

Tiger eats Pig.

Lev is my current fave Rat

After Boomtown, always, tho

My brother was going to stop in Beijing for a day on his way to meet up with me in the Philippines in March.   However, he was worried that he would get stuck in quarantine so he canceled his flight, got a full refund because of the outbreak, and booked a direct flight to Manila. 

Quinn, one of my sisters is a Metal Rat, mom was a Wood Rat.