Recent 3-week trip to Tokyo, Beijing, Nanning, Guangzhou and Hong Kong was not actually a Survival exercise ... but there were Challenging bits and pieces, here and there. Finding and visiting some of the Original Hutongs ( alleys ending in a kind of New York-
Mafia-Compound ... several "homes" all shared by members of the same family ) revealed a part of China that is not changing as fast as the world-press would make you want to believe.
Serious, industrious people who seem to work 12 to 14 hours a day, every day, live in squalid shacks without running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing or toilets ... yet, when you see them off to work and deal with them during the work-day ... you would believe they lived in a small suburban home outside of New York or Chicago or San Francisco or Austin, Texas.
You would have to follow them all the way into their part of China to see the conditions they find some way to deal with in order to Survive. And they do Survive and some in the family do better than others and they still seem to pull the others up and along with them as their tradition dictates.
In the areas I was visiting, the shops, stores, office buildings and hotels along the thoroughfares and avenues turned out to be facades ... adequately covering the fact that a half of a city-block behind them was a whole 'nother world !
Yes, the people can seem to be angry, self-centered, selfish, pushy and aggressive. Perhaps that's part of their survival-regimen. And one-hour or two-hour strolls on 4 or 5 swelteringly-hot afternoons does not create a "Qualified Expert". That's a fact. However, I think I did pick up a small corner of a Huge carpet and peek underneath. So ... when you tell me I am all wrong ... please let me know what your credentials are. That way I can judge how far wrong I am as opposed to an Illogical rant from a casual reader. Thanks !
J
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
H1N1...doesn't deseerve to be called Flu
On Average, over the Past 5 to 10 years .... 32,000 people die from the FLU in the United States each year. If we have a Six-Month FLU season ...that's 5,300 persons who Die each month. And that's from a wide variety of FLUs... N O T including H1N1 FLU.
Thru May 2009, here in Minnesota, only Two people have Died from Complications involving the H1N1 FLU. Both had other serious medical conditions before they caught the FLU.
The Press has Flogged this FLU event in order to sell more Newspapers and increase Watchers and Listeners to the Radio and Television. And that has been very successful for them. They scared the Crap out of people who were too lazy to find out what was actually going on.
W H O called it a Pandemic. The Press never made a strong explanation of what a Pandemic means. It does not mean lots of Victims and lots of Deaths ! Pandemic involves geography and does not have anything to do with the rate of sickness and death due to a FLU. All it means is
there has been One confirmed case of the FLU in a certain number of Countries around the world.
Did you know ... if there was One case of H1N1 FLU in each of 50 countries that could be called a Pandemic. That's just 50 people with the FLU. Period !
And the 32,000 people who Die in the USA each year...from the FLU ... but NOT the H1N1 FLU ...
are not enough to cause the W H O to Issue a Pandemic Warning. They have said Zero about that
rate of death for the past ten years. 320,000 people died here in the U.S. and no one has said a thing. Does anyone but me find this disconcerting ? Or is it just Business as Usual ?
Thru May 2009, here in Minnesota, only Two people have Died from Complications involving the H1N1 FLU. Both had other serious medical conditions before they caught the FLU.
The Press has Flogged this FLU event in order to sell more Newspapers and increase Watchers and Listeners to the Radio and Television. And that has been very successful for them. They scared the Crap out of people who were too lazy to find out what was actually going on.
W H O called it a Pandemic. The Press never made a strong explanation of what a Pandemic means. It does not mean lots of Victims and lots of Deaths ! Pandemic involves geography and does not have anything to do with the rate of sickness and death due to a FLU. All it means is
there has been One confirmed case of the FLU in a certain number of Countries around the world.
Did you know ... if there was One case of H1N1 FLU in each of 50 countries that could be called a Pandemic. That's just 50 people with the FLU. Period !
And the 32,000 people who Die in the USA each year...from the FLU ... but NOT the H1N1 FLU ...
are not enough to cause the W H O to Issue a Pandemic Warning. They have said Zero about that
rate of death for the past ten years. 320,000 people died here in the U.S. and no one has said a thing. Does anyone but me find this disconcerting ? Or is it just Business as Usual ?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Obama-Land, USA ... Finally !
Now In Obama-Land. What a horrible Mess Bush-2 and Evil Dick Cheny Left him. Well, Barack has a much better shot at getting us out of this mess than almost anyone else!
With all the Hi-Priority problems he has to handle....what is the Press Focused upon...?
1. Having a third or Fourth "Swearing-In Ceremony" ..... none of which is required by the Constitution of the United States. Ridiculous !
2. Can he keep and continue to use his Blackberry ? A Joke !
3. Why didn't his Girls go to the local Public Schools ? Are you Kidding Me ? DC Schools ?
Next Crisis will be the Question of " Boxers or Briefs ? " The level of Professionalism among the Press is a National Embarassment!
But...no matter how trivial these elements are....the fact that Bush took off for Texas at a little after Noon on Tuesday ....and he won't be coming back is more than enough to Celebrate for the start of 2009!
With all the Hi-Priority problems he has to handle....what is the Press Focused upon...?
1. Having a third or Fourth "Swearing-In Ceremony" ..... none of which is required by the Constitution of the United States. Ridiculous !
2. Can he keep and continue to use his Blackberry ? A Joke !
3. Why didn't his Girls go to the local Public Schools ? Are you Kidding Me ? DC Schools ?
Next Crisis will be the Question of " Boxers or Briefs ? " The level of Professionalism among the Press is a National Embarassment!
But...no matter how trivial these elements are....the fact that Bush took off for Texas at a little after Noon on Tuesday ....and he won't be coming back is more than enough to Celebrate for the start of 2009!
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