They Can Build A Hospital In A Week

14 Replies to “They Can Build A Hospital In A Week”

1. I don’t know if I’d be trying to get the cement ceiling above me to come down. Kind of like watching Wiley Coyote sawing off the branch he’s sitting on.

2. Quality, eh.

   1. “Cha Bu Duo [It’s close enough].”

      Good enough for Communist Party work.

      https://www.sourcingallies.com/blog/cha-bu-duo

      1. Or, as one of my undergrad profs used to say, “close enough for government work”.

3. There is a company that puts up single story steel buildings. They can be put on a concrete pad and darn near any size you want. they can be insulated, heated and airconditioned. Windows or no windows. They will last a hundred years. As emergency housing or hospitals they would be far superior to traditional builds in the short term. They can be taken apart and re-located.

4. I don’t expect anyone living downstream of the Three Gorges Dam will get a warm and fuzzy feeling after watching this.

   1. They don’t get to see this.

      It’s likely one of the features of their basic dictatorship that the sock monkey admires.

   2. Given the interest being shown by an ISIS (or near offer) member, I wouldn’t want to live downstream of the Revelstoke Dam either. There was a book, “The Wave” which looked at the possible down-stream destruction should that dam (further upstream on the Columbia River) fail. However, there’s apparently a man targeting the Revelstoke Dam. We were in Revelstoke last year and visited the dam; its collapse would be catastrophic not only to Revelstoke but all the way down to the Columbia Valley (goodby Castlegar, Trail, and Northport) and would affect the Grand Coulee Dam as well.
      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mayor-enderby-isis-othman-madan-release-1.5244269

5. The MEXICANS do better concrete work than this! They don’t even use machines! They do all the mixing in wheelbarrows and hand-bomb it!
   A relative has a house in Mexico that was built of concrete by Mexican labor and when a Cat 3+ hurricane rolled over it, it didn’t even so much as crack a pane of glass.

   1. A few years ago, youngest offspring and I took an interesting tour while we were on our annual vacation in southern Mexico. We were the only ones on the tour, and the first stop was a “medicinal herbs” garden. Locals were busy mixing cement on the ground for an expansion. Not a safety helmet or boot in sight. Just glad spouse not with us, as would have pitched in with enthusiasm.

      Further down the tour, went to an iguana sanctuary. If nothing else, we remember that male green iguanas have their tails turn orange when they are amorous. Saw a fair bit of “he wants, she doesn’t want” that day.

6. It should be noted you don’t buy the home you’re living in. China grants you the right to live in it for a certain number of years and then it goes back to the government.

   1. well MM, and condominium in Guangzhou is about 300K USD, and you actually own it!

7. You’re a twisted fellow, hb, but it works for you. 🙂

8. So THAT’s why they are buying up all the properties in my neighborhood…