World Cup Daily, Day 25

My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you. What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort. I didn’t have Covid (I test regularly here), but I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno.

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Post by yetanotherforg » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 11:26 AM UTC

Not surprising at all. mohammed bin salman personally ordered a journalist beheaded in the Istanbul consulate a few years ago. Why not poison a journalist at the World Cup?

royal families can commit genocide, and still have no legal financial or personal recourse.

To them, he was just a worker and workers are garbage in the Middle East.

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Post by chiefalchemist » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

Whether its Qatar or Amazon, workers in the current climate are at a disadvantage; are still a (sub) human resource. We don't need more overseer empathy. We - i.e., not the exploiters - need be to much less tolerant of exploitation (whatever form it takes). Lip service "discomfort" isn't enough.

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Post by m12k » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 11:28 AM UTC

It seems pretty obvious that a totalitarian petrostate, that bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push, doesn't care. What matters is whether we care that they don't care. What matters is whether we care that our sports institutions are massively corrupt.