Why Would Anyone Take Their Family, Especially Children To The Olympics In China When The Air Quality Is Bad?
Posted by China Sourcing CommentatorNov 3
China medical doctors have stated the air quality in the Olympic Area is dangerous to children, along with anyone else. It is the same as smoking 3 packs of cigerettes today in America as the poor quality of air that is some polluted they need a rain to take the odor & color from the air! Having asthma could easily mean a “Death Sentence” by going to the Olympics according to medical personnel. Why would such a polluting nation ever be awarded the Olympics in the first place? Did China buy the 2008 Summer Olympics, how else would such polluters be rewarded with such games? How many people will suffer, heart attacks, strokes, etc from attending such a vastly polluted area for two weeks day and night? The American nightly news casts are my source of this info, along with China’s medical personnel! This is a serious issue and hopefully Americans will be made well aware of what they face by attending the 2008 Summer Olympics in China! The place is an air quality health crisis!
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Not only would I not bring my family to China for the Olympics, I will be boycotting anything the has to do with the Olympics in China. China is the exact opposite of what the Olympics stand for as far a human rights and be a global communion! China could quite possibly the worst country in the world, and is by for the worst carbon producing country. I think the Olympics being in China is completly wrong and it makes me sick! But as always money talks…
If that’s how you view the world and live your life, then you probably never leave your inuslar surroundings or explore new places and cultures. Why don’t you just volunteer to live in a biosphere, and do us all a favor?
Its too crowded and too hot. Kids would get restless easily. Its not that exciting for kids anyway as they would have a hard time seeing over adults. I wouldn’t want to go.
For the summer Olympics they are going to cut back on air pollution. I would love to go there. it will not bother you a bit.
That’s prejudice.
cause they want to go to the Olympics i wouldn’t mind dirty air to go to em.
I guess for the experience, it must be amzing to be there!
a few weeks won’t matter
Somehow, the Chinese manage to live there. Yes, air quality is bad, but being exposed to it for a short amount of time isn’t going to harm their child. There is so much you can learn from experiencing other cultures and being able to see the Olympics…
There are plenty of places in the states have have horrible air quality. So pinpointing China is kinda silly when there are plenty of places in the states with very poor air quality.
I don’t think you’re really asking a question, I think you just have an opinion you want to share.
They have taken significant measures to cleanup the air. 300,000 of large trucks have been banned from the road since July 1st. Today they enacted further measures until after the Paralympic & Olympic Games are over..
Cars can only drive every other day (depending on whether their registration begins with an odd or even number), taking as many as 1.6 million cars off the road every day. Many factories & power plants are closed, those remaining open must cut emissions by 30%. Construction will be halted, which will cut down on dust in the air. All that is in Beijing and the 5 surrounding provinces.
Of course, strong winds can bring in pollution from other cities/provinces… So their efforts might not work.
Not too many westerners are going compared to past Olympics and most will be traveling without kids. Chinas strict visa policy, their absurd rules, security concerns and outrageous hotel prices are keeping many of us away.
In reality, a week or 2 of bad air isn’t going to kill anyone.
cor825, I take it that you haven’t been to both American and Chinese cities.. An American city’s bad air is good air for a Chinese city. A World Bank study on air quality shows 16 of the 20 worst cities are in China.
Los Angeles generally has the worst air quality in the U.S.. Comparing their air to Beijing’s is not even close. A bad air day in LA would be a great day in Beijing. Don’t try to compare the 2 countries air quality, because they’re not even remotely the same.