Posted on 07/24/2021 9:30:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hope you know I was kidding. A cubic centimeter contains 20 drops of water. So how many cubic centimeters of water flooded those towns? Metrics are fun.
The 20 drops of water per cc is simply coincidence and not a matter of design. That number will be different for isopropanol, very hot water, or water with a tiny amount of detergent.
Looks like the Red Chinese version of the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo except their version is underwater. You get points deducted for not staying submerged on turns. /Sarc
Re emergency services in Red China. Since most of the rescue services should be non-political, their responses should also be non-political and the people will help each other out as best they can.
I knew Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan who were like that. No reason to assume that the average Mainlander would be any different. It is the communist leadership and their puppets who don’t give a damn (pardon the use of this word here) about the average Chinese citizen.
Oh I think there were plenty of Chinese people helping each other
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In China, the people have been trained (since the Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Tienanmen Square) not to aid strangers - no matter the crime, injury, or disaster, lest they be scammed (number two money-maker in China) or sued for all of their money and the family’s money. They just look and walk, drive on.
There are video examples of women being abducted in a crowded park in broad daylight, of children taken while people looked on and did nothing, of children being lost and asking passersby for directions or help getting home, only to be ignored or told to go away.
No one does anything in China without Party approval - the CCP makes the decisions; independent non-Party actions are not only frowned on, but may entail a visit from the Civil Police and the Guoanbu - definitely rates a brutal beating, prison time, or worse.
The early reports said the tunnel was completely flooded during rush hour - bumper to bumper both directions. That would mean hundreds of people drowned in that on instance - which is why the PLA closed off the area, in order to hide the magnitude of deaths and save the Party’s face.
I knew Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan who were like that. No reason to assume that the average Mainlander would be any different.
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Taiwan & Hong Kong was a different worlds from the Mainland; equating one with the other is a fallacy - see #24.
People in a commie system aren't allowed to think freely and must seek approval for everything they do. Punishment for going against the system is severe so they end up afraid to think or act independently.
Thats what I thought. A gallon is a gallon regardless of the shale of the container.
I just want us to go metric every inch of the way /s
It was actually created during the french revolution. They weren’t just satisfied with getting rid of a king, they sought to erase anything that had anything to do with the king, including weights and measures. This is the guy they hired to dream it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand.
The video of the subway was interesting in that many still wore their masks when the water had risen up to their necks
Un mentioned is the 4.3 kilometer tunnel. The tunnel is 4+ kilometers long and 6 lanes wide. There are several videos that show a fantastic number of cars in the flooded length. The videos and other reports are indicating that there were upwards of 6,000 people drowned.
The area was sealed off and signs were posted, big signs warning onlookers to go home. The local emergency response types were removed and replaced by military.
There is severe and lengthy anger at the Communist Party that refused to act to warn or act against the flood. The CCP is in deep jeopardy
During the current flooding, deaths were so numerous that local emergency services were removed and replaced by the military. The sheer number of dead and the unbelievable tangle of flood borne cars was so great that it was a public relations disaster for the CCP
On You tube, there are several very good and lengthy videos depicting this PR and intensely human disaster.
There are numerous clips of what you describe, people helping people.
However, the CCP made sure there was no video of the massive deaths
Can you express that in furlongs per fortnight? I’ll take my answer off the air, eh?
“Thats what I thought. A gallon is a gallon regardless of the shape of the container.”
But an imperial gallon is 1.2 USA gallons.
Prayers for the people of China and all over the world subjected to the murderous incompetence of totalitarian leftist politics like communism, socialism and the the astounding incompetence of the democrat party.
Not a bad point. However, that initiative and self-reliance to act by US citizens is getting weaker by the day.
Agreed.
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