The massive earthquake that devastated China and left almost 70,000 people dead has also opened the public’s eye to the current building standards of the country. Many of the buildings should not have tumbled over so quickly. And, this includes many schools. The Chinese government has issued new safety guidelines when constructing building in response to the public outcry.

“Unfortunately, there were alot of child fatalities in these schools. China still has a one child per family only policy. The grief at the loss of their only child has to be soul crushing. Especially after the brainwashing that they have all recieved. The lies suddenly are out in the open. Why did the arrest hundreds of protesters these past three weeks. Is it any wonder why these people are so upset.

Now with all due respect - the buildings were of extremley poor construction. Bad concrete and little or no re-bar. Who paid off the inspectors - concrete, and structural ? Unfortunately corruption runs rampant in China. And if you build buildings that fast, witness Shang’hai; you can only imagine what could happen with a catastrophic earthquake.

I pity the Olympic athletes who have to deliver performances in such poor environmental conditions as well. Dust and pollutiojn fromthou=sands of open pit cookers, foundries, manufacturing plants, open pit coal mines, and nuclear test facility upwind. I would not be the least bit surprised if western countries flying in loads of bottled water and food.”

“Seems everyone and their dog is talking about “the schools in China” and how it was such a tragedy. ….

What i don’t understand is why people seem to obsess over the schools?

What about the businesses? Without them the kids parents can’t make money and they suffer.

What about the private homes and sanitation facilities? Without them people live in tents and suffer horrible and potentially life threatening problems, IMO far worse than postponing an education.

Sure, kids died, but they werent targetted or intended victims….

Yet constantly obsessing about the schools seems to tug those old heartstrings and villanize the Chinese for allowing mother nature to kill school kids….. What about the parents? the grandma’s and grandpa’s? the business partners? the common man on the street? The shopkeepers, beekeepers and hairdressers?

Are they not worthy of our notice? Are they LESS important because they are over 18 years old?

Let’s stop this showboating and tugging heartstrings to get attention and ratings CBC….. It was a massive HUMAN tragedy, not just a bunch of schools that were destroyed…..”

“Why does it always take a tradegy to make governments “find” previously unavailable funding to do the proper thing, or enforce the proper laws and codes, to protect it’s citizens, especially the weakest of them.

It’s not like this is the first time schools have collapsed because of shoddy construction. Just the first time on this scale and on the world stage.”

“Quick Solution: Use the same building codes for the CCP offices and homes of high ranking officials that was used in all the schools that collapsed - and vice versa. Problem solved.”

“They target the schools because in many cases they were the ‘only’ buildings to collapse and in some cases the concret used to build them could be crushed by hand not to mention the rebar used to strengthen them was no better that coat hanger wire.”

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