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Originally posted by Tutankhamun
Bitch I currently live in China and know how the government deals with messes like this  They will cover up everything as much as possible because the local officials are trying to secure their positions. |
Maybe just reserve your judgment and see how the story develops in a few days? The news has made international headlines and the President is coming to Tianjin, so what kind of local officials have the power to cover it up under such circumstances?
It makes perfect sense that the information is limited hours after such a calamity. The government had to put the firefighting on hold and send in a group of chemical experts because they don't even know exactly what is going on. Nobody knows the death toll at this point because they have a radius of 10+ km to cover, and even China can't gather enough resources to pull that off in hours.
Use your brain, the first responders are NOT there to make the press happy. They are doing whatever they can to minimize the loss of life, and as a hospital spokesperson said to a CNN reporter, "do you want us to save the wounded, or do you want us to sit back and count the bodies?" Meanwhile some Western reporters go to hospitals to harass survivors, grieving relatives, and hospital staff, and have the nerve to lie on air when the families and bystanders got mad. If such behavior had happened in the West, people would've been outraged by now. But because this is China, surely this is more than justified, because of course the Chinese are the evil ones.
RIP to those we've lost...
i legit could not even imagine, just wow
