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NNadir

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4. Any country where people accost scientists in bars to buy them beers out of gratitude...

Reply to rso (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 17, 2020, 02:28 PM

Dec 2020

...for their infectious disease work is definitely a gem of a country.

It's funny that one never hears about it, but perhaps, because it's so civilized, that is understandable.

We certainly hear endlessly about our boorish and ignorant President in this country. "Boorish and ignorant" seems to garner attention; civilization does not.

My son interned in a lab in France before his sophomore year where many of the graduate students and post docs were Brazilian. After never having cared about Soccer before growing up, he suddenly developed this huge passion for it. It went away when he came back to the hinterlands, the US.

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Uruguay rso Dec 2020 #1

Thank you. It does seem like a far more civilized country than the US. NNadir Dec 2020 #2

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Any country where people accost scientists in bars to buy them beers out of gratitude... NNadir Dec 2020 #4