Yeah, I keep hearing this and that about whats wrong with China, but at the end of the day its got the largest middle class in the world and the standards are a 1000 percent what they were and they are climbing higher and higher. Its just sort of getting old...there are 1.4 billion people there and frankly, little goes wrong given the population size that they have. So we have a few thousand dead here and there from some virus we find came from a bat, primate, monkey or a pig or whatever and we all start screaming about standards...if they had no standards at all you'd have scares like this happening in a dozen locations in China each month. But we don't. Bat has been consumed safely by millions of people for thousands of years. So has pig, rat, cat,snakes, crocodiles, wombat, kangaroos, squirrels and chipmunks. Meanwhile, in America, 50,000 people a year of dying from superbugs given to patients visiting hospitals - but lets concentrate on a bat in China and their poor hygiene standards...Since December 31, over 3000 people in the USA were killed going to our hospitals by a bug due to sanitation.
And sometimes I get called out for being too lenient on China.
They have the largest middle class because they have the most people. They also have the most criminals, paedophiles, diseased, corrupted... whatever...
You don't see the bad news because I only post when there's serious news. As far as I'm aware, I'm really the only one that would consistent put this shit out. If you want bad news, I can post shitty stuff every
day minute. Another doctor was stabbed to death by some crazy relative of a patient the other day, some rapist now gets the capital punishment because he tried to use connections to obtain a shorter sentence, that was 2 weeks ago. There was an earlier non-scandal involving some wealthy thot driving her Benz into Tiananmen Square for her birthday... I can go on and fucking on.
1000% times zero is still fucking zero. SARS was caused by bats and civets, this new virus is caused by bats and allegedly snakes that were bit by the bats, which some in Wuhan consumes raw.
I'm more than happy to chant on about how the infrastructure is new and well planned, how public transport is cheap, how good the HSR is for travelling... sure. Food standards are still low as fuck. Not much has changed. Gutter oil is rid of, harmful chemicals used in baby powder is no longer an issue... yeah the big and nasty stuff is kind of sorted. How about the sanitary standards, the openness of markets enabling cross contamination? Have you been to China? Because I can tell you that absolutely nothing has changed when it comes to these markets and the filth they are.
Did you see how the officials handled the virus in the beginning? They saw it as a joke. Case in point, this entire thing is preventable. This virus is 80% similar to SARS, you'd think they learned the lesson.
This is exactly why my average meal in China would cost $30, costs twice as much compared to what I eat in Australia, the portions are kind of small too, that's for a country with very cheap food that's not at all unhealthy. You don't think it's pathetic? I have to shop at Japanese and western import stores seen as posh and unnecessary. Also the tap water there is undrinkable, well you can drink it and get sent to the hospital like the 11yo of myself.
But yeah, some weird bugs are killing people, why should I care? People die in Africa at bigger masses, mosquitoes and dogs kill more people than contaminated food. Let's play this goalpost game indefinitely.