PRC: lots of people dead, but who cares?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Crimson Sunrise
That's because Congo is where the Ebola virus comes from. If you asked me to go there, I'd request to be executed instead.

/me wipes tear

*sniff....a true member of the AECCP.

[Q Classic]

too many of them anyhow.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by mindseye
Of course it's a really terrible accident. Unfortunately, given the combination of rapid industrialization with a population the scale of China's, it will be far from the last.

If you live here (or perhaps anywhere outside of the developed west) you have to adjust your "care threshold", or you will rapidly be drained of all sympathy. In the US, 15 dead in a mine accident would be a major story, here it's a routine.

Still, 191 dead is not your average daily mining accident.

Speaking of which, the media in PRC is start doing some stuff. Like I saw a few days ago they exposed the terrible conditions and lack of safety enforcements in some of the mines. Some of the wooden columns are rotting away, and some nitwit was smoking inside a coal mine If I were working with him, I'd kill him right off the bat. That seems to be a case of justifiable homocide.

[DaShi]

You mean the media in Hong Kong.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DanielXY
Any western citizens or property harmed?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DaShi
You mean the media in Hong Kong.

I thought English is your first language?

[Capt Dizle]

10,000 Iranians dead in quake today, will anyone care?

[Az]

no, probably not.

[Ted Striker]

Ted does

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Jimmy doesn't

[Space05us]

sucks sure, but who were they to me?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


I thought English is your first language?

Please try to be polite.

[Enigma_Nova]

1,000 threads killed on Apolyton over 5 years
Anyone care?

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Thought not.

[pchang]

Dead

The amazing thing to me is that those dead are only part of 120,000 killed in industrial accidents this year. This seems really high. Obviously worker safety is not a high priority in the PRC.

[The Mad Monk]

That is really high.

Union Carbide was 30,000, right?

That's four times that every year.