07/06/24 - Some foreign forces made up rumours that Wuhan was about to be put under military law, and everyone started celebrating.
Another compilation of healthcare overseas: “Don't study abroad if you have a weak constitution!”
“Went to get my mouth ulcers checked on in Canada and they recommended euthanasia XD”
“I stayed up all night to write essays a lot while studying abroad, and a side effect is that every time I breathed, my chest would hurt. I went to the ER and waited 16 hours and finally got sick and tired of waiting, and found some random young intern doctor to check me out. Asked him what drugs he recommends, and he suggested I go make a will with a lawyer. What the fuck.”
“I got gastroenteritis in England and the doctor told me to take some laxatives and poop it all out.”
“I fell and went to get an X-ray. The doctor had me walk to the X-ray myself. Turned out, I had two broken ankles. Then, he wanted me to do the X-ray again and told me to walk over there by myself again. I was like, “But my bones are broken.” And the nurse was like, “Then take some painkillers and walk over there.””
“I pulled a muscle in my face smiling and slightly dislocated my bones. The ER told m to go to a dentist, and the dentist gave me two shots of botox.”
“Got an uvula infection, and the doctor told me to eat some chips to scrap it clean.”
“Same! I had an asthma attack and couldn't breathe, and the doctor was like, “You're just scaring yourself into a panic. You don't need to gasp like that—your body doesn't need that much oxygen.””
“My sister waited for 8 hours in Australia for her broken leg and no doctor came to see her. She was crying in pain, and a nurse came by with a piece of candy and told her that sweet things help you forget pain.”
“Hahahahaha, a friend of mine had eczema, and the doctor prescribed her sleeping pills and told her it won't itch if she's asleep.”
“I literally passed out from pain in the ER, and the nurse woke me up and asked if I was sleepy and if I wanted a place to lay down.”
“Fuck me, I was covered in blood after taking a fall while skateboarding. The next day, I burned up to 42C. I thought I had tetanus so I went to the hospital, and the doctor was like, “Wow, that is a high temperature. Go home and take some panadol.””
“Went to get a vaccine in Sweden, and the doctor accidentally stabbed himself with the needle.”
“Um, well, I had a mild broken sternum n America. Nothing wrong with my treatment plan, gave me painkillers and everything. But they wanted 13,000 USD for a CT scan.”
“If you think everyone else is exaggerating, I can tell a true story here. My boss was a surgeon in a top hospital. While his son was studying overseas n Canada, he broke his leg skiing, and the Canadian doctors put it back wrong. They had to rebreak his leg in China again to fix it.”
A compilation of answers to the question: “Why do a lot of foreigners like China after coming here?”
“I know a chick from the Czech Republic, said she was out a little late after her college graduation ceremony, and almost got dragged into the woods and raped by a couple of hoodlums. And thievery and muggings are pretty commonplace. She's been in China for five years and only had her butt groped once, and it was by a three-year-old. When she's walking home in the middle of the night and run into a bunch of drunk guys, they'll even remind her to hurry home because it's not safe for a girl to be out at night. Even called a taxi for her. Safety really is a luxury in some countries.”
“There's a lot of videos trending on tiktok of foreigners coming over to China. There was an English couple with three kids. When they first landed, they were super nervous, and the taxi driver they had didn't understand English so he dropped them off at the wrong spot. They had to walk through a bunch of Chinese streets at night to get to their hotel, and they were so scared they just about had PTSD from the ordeal.
After a couple of weeks hanging out in China, they go out every night to drink now and never want to stay at their hotel.”
“I went to uni in Chengdu and experienced the Wenchuan Earthquake. After the earthquake, all my classmates ran out to the field. Nobody had any signal on their phone, so we gathered around the cars on the street to listen to the radio. There were some international students listening along with us. At around 3 PM in the afternoon, the radio went, “The airforce has retrieved photos of Wenchuan, and the Chengdu Military District is already gathering forces to perform disaster relief.””
“When Wuhan was in lockdowns, some foreign forces made up rumours that Wuhan was about to be put under military law, and everyone started celebrating. Things stabled down in no time, and those white people couldn't understand. They wanted to cause a panic. Why did it have the opposite effect? And they had to dispel the rumour themselves in the end. They'll never understand the meaning of the People's Liberation Army.”
#Dongting Lake flooding. “Yesterday afternoon, a section of the Dongting Lake dyke breached and began flooding. Currently, over 5000 citizens have been evacuated. So far, there has been no reports of casualties or trapped people. SWAT, firefighters, soldiers, and other rescue personnel are stepping up their efforts to investigate all historically dangerous dyke sections and dyke-crossing buildings.
Comments say, “So, how much money do they spend every year on disaster prevention and emergency supplies? Can we make those numbers public? What is their emergency contingency plan?”
“Could we not emergency-weld together a long rebar net and deposit it with a helicopter? We can stabilise the two ends by tying them to heavy trucks, and then fill the middle with sand and rock. That way, at least it wouldn't break apart so quickly. This is just some personal ideas.”
A video of the newest skyladder attraction at the Baishi Mountain:
Comments say, “I wouldn't climb this if you paid me.”
“I would just pass out!! It's too scary!”
“Are those lines at the bottom really that strong? Can't they put a safety net under it or something? What if something went wrong!?”
#Dozen trucks attempting to block the Dongting Lake dyke breakage:
Comments say, “If you want to stop a flood with trucks, you can't just fill it with loose sand! You gotta use rocks or sandbags! And you have to tie it to the truck with netting or rope, to make sure it won't get washed away from the truck!”
“This happens every year! Can't our hydrological engineers do some preparations in advance?”
“You're just wasting both the truck and the sand doing it this way!”
[Shanghai Airlines got into trouble today because a flight to Qinghai was forced to make an emergency stop in Gansu for weather reasons. The passengers left the plane to wait, and when the airline was ready to leave again, they forgot to make an announcement to the passengers who had gone to the airport lounge to inform them. So four passengers got abandoned at the airport. Since the airport they stopped at was only 230km from the final destination, they didn't have a normal flight they could put the passengers on, and the train tickets had all sold out. So the passengers demanded that the airline hire them a car to drive them to their final destination. So all four passengers ended up squeezed into a Honda Accord with all their luggage.]
#Plane takes off forgetting four passengers in the airport lounge. “I'm one of them. Let me fill in a couple of details. I used my platinum membership card to get upgraded to business class this time, and there were only 6 passengers in business class total. Can't they tell if one of them is missing? We didn't get a limo for our car either, and there was no water in the car. We had to sit in thirst the whole 3 hour drive.”
Comments say, “Lol, can't believe they just got you guys a normal uber and not even a bus or something. That's so stingy.”
“You guys could've starred in Lost On Journey.” [Chinese comedy about travel misadventures.]
“Is this a Honda Accord ad?”
“I've seen a lot of criticism online about this Dongting Lake flood, especially about how there were no anti-flood equipment on scene, and how the trucks filled with loose sand were almost immediately washed away by flood water. In my opinion, although this flood has caused a lot of financial damage, at least so far, there hasn't been any casualties. News reports say that locals have all been safely evacuated. If that is true, then just the fact that they were able to hold it until the end is something that's worth acknowledging.
According to news reports, they have officially begun working today on closing the dyke. Based on pictures of the progress so far, it's mostly beng done by machinery. I have to say, China's made a lot of advances in fighting floods. We have to acknowledge these improvements.
Of course, the public's criticism and questions deserve to be acknowledged too. Criticism is the fuel for progress. If there are mistakes, we should correct them. If there aren't mistakes, we should keep working hard. We've had a lot of extreme weather lately, and we've still got a long ways to go yet when it comes to fighting against and living with nature.”
Comments say, “First things first, we gotta stop the flooding. We can investigate exactly why the dyke broke after all of this is said and done.”
“Armchair flood fighting better not become a thing.”
“I believe in the CCP's management skills and I support your rational analysis.”