Two Chinese state media outlets are under fire for releasing a list of "surprising benefits" of smog that include making you smarter and funnier.
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Apparent the Chinese think smog makes those choking in it more knowledgeable, funnier, better aware and more unified, as well as "unifying the Chinese people" and cloaking China's military systems from spying foreign eyes.
These claims quickly raised eyebrows among those with firsthand experience of China's record-breaking air pollution (or did it? I can't quite see their faces through all the solidifying air). Other newspapers, even other state-run ones, roundly denounced the claims, with one editorial lamenting that the fact-free reports left people unsure "whether to laugh or cry."
This reminds me of a joke. Two Chinese dudes walk into a bar...to ber able to breathe!