bitofarambler

that's exactly how it works. import companies are currently cancelling all the orders from China and other countries currently en route and Americans are going to pay a lot more for whatever imported stock is left within the country and then there won't be anything from other countries in the US after a week or two: produce, meat, electronics, TP and so on.

I say "US Americans" to differentiate while traveling, works well.

easy to say, easy to understand.

correct.

there's also the maybe more important scientific literature ban that is forcing scientists like those who make sure crops grow correctly in the US out of their jobs because they aren't able to talk about the gender of the seeds they are breeding.

or the physicists who can't talk about the "status" of the material they're using, because that word is banned.

countries don't want to buy American military equipment anymore because they rightly cannot trust the US, which is a huge loss of revenue.

the disastrous policies already enacted are going to economically and socially hobble the country for decades.

the scientist who goes to another country rather than the US to practice physics, agriculture, anthropology, anything, that's an entire career of innovation and scientific benefit lost to the US.

and those scientists are already avoiding the us, that's already happening.

the market numbers are the tip of the iceberg here.

A classroom assistant at the school i worked at. very hard-working, curious and funny guy who likes to learn things all the time, so we exchanged Chinese and English and hung out all the time for barbecue and hotpot and all that good stuff.

still friends more than a decade later even though I travel a lot; we got to meet up a few times when I visited Beijing last year and we still talk occasionally on wechat.

"Notes on A Renegade President's War Against Civil Soviety"

I was literally in the middle of thinking about community groups when I came across your post, I think a lot of people would use this feature.

my Chinese friend is occasionally harassed or disrespected for looking/sounding asian around all of the states, so your concern doesn't sound paranoid to me.

i find this very satisfying: gently disagreeing with them via a short single positive message like "gay people do deserve respect", then letting them throw a very lengthy, time-invested tantrum before gently and completely disagreeing with their comment with another short sentence, over and over until they get tired.

i find that both very funny and I'm putting out positive messages that negate their bigotry without too much time or effort.

that's just if you have the time and inclination to engage, you aren't morally obligated to subject yourself to abusive behavior.

if it's real bad, they're probably violating a rule, and reporting them will get them banned

hated that work culture so i left as soon as the opportunity presented itself.

went to teach ESL. half the hours for better pay

i travel constantly, and every time I'm flying in a plane i am re-amazed.

i think about how easy and quick it is to fly anywhere in the world and I'm sitting in a bit metal tube floating in the air.

it's bananas.

I see what you mean now.

I thought you were mainly concerned about shipping things from the US, which neither I nor anyone I've known has had intercepted or interfered with en route to dozens of countries, frequently containing valuables. It must happen, but it seems very rare.

The other way though, if you're sending packages to the US from other countries, you could have that problem occasionally, which I have experienced twice and heard of from other travelers shipping things to the US.

As far as I know, that's a one-way problem, US-tagged packages seem to slip through sticky fingers.