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Planning to go grocery shopping for #LunarNewYear ?
✅ Avoid crowded markets
✅ Keep at least 1 metre distance with others
✅ #WearAMask
✅ #WashYourHands
to protect yourself & others from #COVID19. #YearOfTheOx
✅ Avoid crowded markets
✅ Keep at least 1 metre distance with others
✅ #WearAMask
✅ #WashYourHands
to protect yourself & others from #COVID19. #YearOfTheOx
The #YearOfTheOx begins with the #ChineseNewYear on Friday, but for many Asian Americans, this year’s holiday is marked by anxiety and unease, a stark contrast to the usually hopeful attitudes for luck and prosperity. 🧧🧵 by @johannacli:
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1/ Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began, for business owners in Chinatown, life has been harder than ever.
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2/ “We’re trying to be as hopeful as we can because that’s what the New Year is – having hope that the new year will be better. But realistically, the next three or four months will be very tough for us.” – Patrick Mock, manager of 46 Mott Bakery in NYC
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🐮 What’s your Chinese zodiac sign? There’s a Chinese horoscope for everyone this #LunarNewYear.
Here’s what’s in store for those born in the #YearOfTheOx via @CLSAInsights
Here’s what’s in store for those born in the #YearOfTheOx via @CLSAInsights
🐯 Tigers should gather all cures this #YearoftheOx,
says @CLSAInsights.
It's slim pickings for tigers this year
says @CLSAInsights.
It's slim pickings for tigers this year
🐰 2021 is a good year ahead for the Rabbit, come #LunarNewYear, according to @CLSAInsights.
Enjoy nesting this year
Enjoy nesting this year
#LunarNewYear is just around the corner. What will the Year of the Ox bring? Some optimism, because the sheer chaos of the previous Year of the Rat won’t happen again for another 60 years, Chinese astrologers say.
Story by @joannachiu
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Story by @joannachiu
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Besides COVID-19, astrologers have pointed out that the first Opium War, the American Revolution and a famine in India that killed as many as 10 million all happened during the so-called “Year of the Gengzi,” which occurs once every 60 years.
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Though many Chinese people dismiss such beliefs as superstition, it didn’t help COVID-19 cases spiked right at the beginning of 2020. The #YearoftheOx, which starts Friday, will bring release from the air of depression, but there's more: astrologers say
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