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[–] KnownBand0 [S] ago 

very good friend is in Phnom Pehn Cambodia. he messaged me yesterday told me that 9 people died in the last four days. schools are closed for two weeks.

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[–] BONFIRE_OF_VANITIES ago 

DAMN, good imaging. I could smell the pissy raw chicken ready to be eaten...

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[–] RebelRed 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The comments on that article are fairly entertaining. But to the point, why would a communist country bother with health standards?

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[–] rickki6 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

very good, thanks !

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[–] TSE 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I have experienced what he is talking about first hand during some of my many trips to China to many different regions, starting in 1997. Even today, get out of the big cities by 100 miles and you enter another world.

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[–] KnownBand0 [S] 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

" Over the next several days and weeks, we would experience the amazing culture of China, in several different cities. But some things stood out to this germophobic American. I watched a man hock up something from his chest and spit it on the floor, right next to us, in a restaurant. No oysters for me, thanks. I’ve suddenly lost my appetite.

We visited a Hutong (inner city – where the locals live) and saw raw chickens, skinned and bleeding, just laying on the floor, waiting to be thrown on a restaurant grill…for public consumption. No FDA or USDA or food inspectors or “codes” to comply with, here. But why? This is the last purely communist country on earth. You’d think there would be red tape everywhere. What was happening here?

Then, my wife and I had to rush our newly adopted, 8-month-old daughter to the public hospital…and suddenly it all started making sense.

As we stepped in more urine, took our number from the print-out machine, walked past the line of children whining and crying from the scalp IVs in their heads, then rushed to clean up blood and mucus (left by the last patient) on the plastic table they were now laying our baby on, then waited on the ONE overworked doctor (attending to no less than three hundred people) try to round up a basic anti-biotic to administer to my daughter (right there on site – no refills) it dawned on me what I was seeing and what I had been seeing this whole time. I wasn’t watching a “backward” culture or a third-world society. These people weren’t genetically inferior to first-worlders. They weren’t “less-evolved” than I was.

I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA? Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food? The government? They don’t answer to you. The press? They are owned by the government. And again, they don’t answer to you."