Post by Deleted on May 4, 2015 11:36:00 GMT -6
China seems to be leading the nations for this affliction, but I'd imagine that comes only by scale and size of their population. Nothing about being Chinese makes them special to suffer from this, and it does seem to be a real condition. As tough as that may be to see in those terms, he sure was addicted in this story!
This is becoming more and more common. There was a case not too long ago in a Scandinavian nation where a kid literally drank himself into a cascading organ failure from Energy drinks during a long internet binge.
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So... I'm not sure there is an answer here except to note, the gene pool has a self cleaning routine....or so it would seem. At least if Paramedics don't interefere with the natural flow of things.
How else to look at it? You can't outlaw this to have any impact at all...and in China? If laws would matter, they are already as serious as they really get anywhere. That doesn't slow it down.
Later in the article it states China has 649 million internet users with an estimated 24 million legitimate internet addicts!
Now, again, I note the scale of things. China has 1.3 Billion people, so this still is just half their population with a net connection. I wonder what the addicted numbers would look like with a true and accurate world survey of the problem?
In the latest example of the country's troubling obsession with the virtual world, the 21-year-old named only as Mr Xia collapsed onto the pavement outside an internet café in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, according to a report in the Anhui Business Review.
When paramedics arrived to take the goggle-eyed man to hospital he reportedly told them: "Leave me alone and turn on the computer for me. I want to surf the internet."
When paramedics arrived to take the goggle-eyed man to hospital he reportedly told them: "Leave me alone and turn on the computer for me. I want to surf the internet."
This is becoming more and more common. There was a case not too long ago in a Scandinavian nation where a kid literally drank himself into a cascading organ failure from Energy drinks during a long internet binge.
"[At] 7am on May 3, he told me he was feeling a little dizzy and hadn't eaten for a day and that he would go out to get some food," she told the website.
"He couldn't stand up on his own so I helped him. He was quite smelly by then."
At 7.30am Mr Xia collapsed into a heap on the ground outside.
"He couldn't stand up on his own so I helped him. He was quite smelly by then."
At 7.30am Mr Xia collapsed into a heap on the ground outside.
So... I'm not sure there is an answer here except to note, the gene pool has a self cleaning routine....or so it would seem. At least if Paramedics don't interefere with the natural flow of things.
How else to look at it? You can't outlaw this to have any impact at all...and in China? If laws would matter, they are already as serious as they really get anywhere. That doesn't slow it down.
Later in the article it states China has 649 million internet users with an estimated 24 million legitimate internet addicts!
Now, again, I note the scale of things. China has 1.3 Billion people, so this still is just half their population with a net connection. I wonder what the addicted numbers would look like with a true and accurate world survey of the problem? 
