> "I mean, death is a natural part of life, whether it’s at work, whether it’s in your sleep." Wow. Truly astounding apathy.
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World Cup Daily, Day 25
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#12> He actually said that What is he supposed to say instead?
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every measure possible to ensure they are safe while performing their jobs"
You know, the kind of thing you expect people to say in societies that value human life, and see migrant workers as humans, and not just cheap disposable robots.
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#13> He actually said that What is he supposed to say instead?
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every…
What I'm getting at is that even if he had _said_ that, it doesn't actually mean anything about whether it's true or not. In contrast American companies might say something like that and then do nothing once the news cycle moves on.
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#14It 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.
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#15> He actually said that What is he supposed to say instead?
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every…
Or:
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We have contacted his family, made all the arrangements for a dignified flight home, memorial service and created a financial fund to compensate the family for his loss. It's the least we could do."
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#16It 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.
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This has to be the shittiest take on this story I could possibly imagine.
One, this guy is a sports journalist. He wouldn't have covered COVID in any direct sense.
Two, you're comparing having to stay indoors to dying in the blistering heat during slave labor in service of an actually totalitarian government.
Three, the timing of this death is at the very least suspicious. It's weird that you'll lay the responsibility for the COVID lockdowns at journalists' feet, but when there is possibly an actual conspiracy going on you instantly regurgitate your own COVID talking points.
My mind is truly frayed here.
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#17https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/world-cup-daily-day-22 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 we…
Honestly, as much as I’d like to lean into the conspiracy theories here, I think this post highlights the likely cause of his death. Won’t stop people from speculating though.
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#18> "I mean, death is a natural part of life, whether it’s at work, whether it’s in your sleep." Wow. Truly astounding apathy.
sounds like this is in line with this kinds of reasoning:
"death is a natural part of life, whether you die of old age or you get murdered by too much work"
ah, them wise ruling elites.... (or more accurately, them wise ruling elites of people in Qatar)
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#19It 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.
> bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push
So common that it has a name.
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#20Why post something that the majority of us will not be able to read