Buddhist-Atheist Upbringing
And hard reality and practicality. When you are an engineer, doctor, lawyer, or other high end professional in China, and come here and have to work in a restaurant, a laundry, drive an Uber, do nails, you see how much more money you can make being a sex worker. I'm surprised when I meet a Chinese Christian masseuse, but I have met 10 of them now. Christian purity is trumped by need, or greed.
[QUOTE=SamSpade;4722108]From everything I've learned out COVID-19, it is just the latest brand of the coronavirus. Expect it to die down in the summer (no matter what actions governments take) and then come back in the fall as COVID-20. If we have a vaccine by then, great, I'll take it. If not, I can't stand the idea of living a year like I've done the past 2 weeks. I'm pretty much expecting to catch the damn thing this year or next.
Funny what you said about church going. I had one Ukrainian woman (now retired and in her 70's so don't ask) who kept a picture of the holy family in the room she gave me massages in, with a hand or Russian finish. Another kept a Christian radio station on, possibly as a cover, until I asked her to turn it off and get busy. And if you remember the Ying from the northern burbs (also retired, don't ask), she was an active committee member of her church. How they got around the mentality of that I'll never know.[/QUOTE]