weegee: Don’t crap where you eat.
What makes you assume that the use of soap is not the norm there? Have you been to China? I have. We are talking about a country that is moving out of third world status. Once you get out of the cities there is a lot of poverty. People don't have the luxury of running water and indoor plumbing. You think that they get these diseases because they deserve them? They deserve them because they don't use soap or they intentionally go out there and "crap" where they eat? Maybe you think comments like that are clever .. I think they are thoughtless, cruel, and elitist!
Yes, they do have soap and they do wash. The problem is that everything is so backwards and there are little or no sanitary conditions. After years of dictatorial rule by leaders such as Mao, these things are finally becoming important in China. The fact that they are putting in these toilets is one indication of that.
When you see rivers like the Yangtze, which flows through major cities, with untreated human waste floating in it, its easy to understand why the people are getting sick.
weegee, nobody would go out and intentionally "crap" in water they need for drinking. The waste is picked up and dumped in the rivers.
Yes, China has a long way to go. Change is slowly taking place but it is happening in baby steps. Try to stop looking down your nose, and arrogantly making such unkind assumptions about the people.
Are you as warped as your post makes you appear?