Oh but how can this be in the People’s Republic of Heaven, second only to Cuba as the land of liberal wonderment and enlightened doing things for the good of the people?
And I feel that American athletes going there are asking for trouble be it environmental or otherwise.
I was just in Bejing last week. I’ve never seen anything like the pollution there. We had clear days. And we still couldn’t see the sky. Just a vague outline where the sun was. Buildings a quarter mile away simply vanished into the haze. Any American who complains about our air should spend an hour in that dump. Can’t imagine that air as horrible as that in Bejing is good for the Olympic athletes. I’d hate to have to run a marathon in it thats for sure.
World boycott of China olympics for health reasons. Piss them off something terrible. Ha, ha. Tell them we’ll be back when their air is healthy.
Wait until the liberals see this mess. Maybe they will freak out and demand we stop buying Chinese stuff. Save the planet!!! Boycott China.
I lived in Hong Kong in 1998, I used to joke that you could chew the pollution it was so bad.
...by the fourth day every throat – even the training staff’s – was irritated and clogged by mucus...
If Katie Couric was a serious journalist she’d be over there right now doing and expose on the “sputum.”
that smoke is from all the American jobs sent to China in the last 15 years
It’s a communist thing. Living in Berlin we went over to East Berlin many times. Since prevailing winds were west to east we’d come back over to West Berlin with sinuses full of black gunk due to the pollution, the majority of which was dirty coal.
It would take several days to blow it all out.