Originally Posted by
garykung
I don't want to guess what MSPe intended to say in his post.
Except you already *are* guessing what she (MSPe is a woman) intended to say by taking umbrage at it. I see that your profile says HKG, so the situation is more personal to you than it might be to others, but IMO it's clouding the way you are reading things.
Originally Posted by
garykung
But DL's departure really has nothing to do with the civil unrest.
And again, I don't think anyone was saying it was.
Originally Posted by
garykung
So yeah - I am puzzled why this even had to be mentioned in the first place.
It didn't *have* to be mentioned, it was just a conversational observation.
It's like if you normally drive one way to work, but for some reason change your mind on a particular day, maybe you have an extra errand to run, but it turns out there was an accident or a traffic jam or something so you would have been greatly delayed if you took your usual route, and you say to someone "it was quite fortunate I had that errand otherwise I would've run into the traffic jam" even though the two don't really have anything to do with each other.
EDIT: and since I'm paranoid now that the above might be misunderstood too, to be perfectly clear I am absolutely *not* saying that a traffic jam and the protests going on in HKG are in any way equivalent.