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发帖数: 33885 | 1 I'm 66 and when I was 5 and six I used to listen to the radio in Chicago in
the Winter as I napped, and they kept a running count every winter on the
number of people who had died so far in the London "Pea Soup". Pea soup was
the term for the terrible fog/smog London got in winters from the private
use of coal to heat homes, millions of them crowded together. It was
sometimes tainted unbeknownst to the public with poisonous gasses from
factories located in London that the UK government kept secret, sulfuric
acid and other quick killers would kill people within minutes of their
exposure to it. But the British then were famous for their ability to ignore
problems and keep on muddling through. Now generations later, documentaries
are out talking about the poisons then in London's air that were kept
secret. My point is that a government like China's with a carefully
monitored press probably loses thousands of people annually in Beijing
because of what I would call a "Peking pea soup". If 10,000 people died in
that heaving metropolis of tens of millions every winter we would not know
and neither would the Chinese people. | s*x
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