South East Asia
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South East Asia is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 23, 2021 and October 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Mycelium says: In South East Asia, we have”; “‘In South East Asia, we have two flu seasons a year - a summer season and a winter season’”; “the bat ancestral virus to SARS-CoV-2 is in southern Yunnan or South East Asia”. It most often appears alongside America, China, HKU1.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 23, 2021
- Last seen: October 04, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Diseasonality
- Highlights From The Comments On The Lab Leak Debate
- Against The Cultural Christianity Argument
Related Pages
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- HKU1 (2 shared issues)
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- Maine (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- S14 (1 shared issues)
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- 1880 - 1930 period (1 shared issues)
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- 1890s (1 shared issues)
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- 2009 flu pandemic (1 shared issues)
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- 2013-16 West African Ebola outbreak (1 shared issues)
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- 20th century (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
In South East Asia, we have two flu seasons a year - a summer season and a winter season - for EXACTLY the reason you mention - in the summer, people coop themselves up at home with the air-conditioning on full blast.
In the west, shade is adequate to cool you in the summer, so you don't need to close the windows and turn on the A/C. In South East Asia, the muggy air retains heat, requiring air-conditioning and reduced airflow.
1. Xiao et al (2021) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B , which includes a co-author of Worobey et al (2022), a leading zoonosis paper states in table 1 that the raccoon dogs were wild caught in Hubei, not farmed as you assert in the piece. This alone rules out raccoon dogs as plausible hosts for two independently sufficient reasons. Firstly, there is unanimity in the literature that the bat ancestral virus to SARS-CoV-2 is in southern Yunnan or South East Asia. Everyone agrees with this, including Shi Zhengli. If a species was wild caught in Hubei, then there would be no explanation of how it acquired the ancestral bat virus, given that Hubei is 1000 miles from southern Yunnan.
But the Christian cultural package also fell apart and became the current post-Christian world. This wasn't just a one-time coincidence either. Protestantism gave way to modernism in Scandinavia, Germany, and the US. Catholicism gave way to modernism in Spain, Italy, and Latin America. Orthodoxy gave way to modernism in Greece, Eastern Europe, and Russia (with a slight Putinist resurrection-in-name-only which hardly seems to have produced a flourishing liberal society). Meanwhile in China, the local mix of Buddhism/Confucianism/Taoism gave way to modernism. In South East Asia, Buddhism gave way to modernism. Only 10% of Israeli Jews are ultra-Orthodox, and it would be lower if they didn't breed so fast. India is moderately Hindu but still noticeably modern. Even the Middle East is gradually becoming less Muslim.