Gee, and how long have they been wearing the things as a matter of course in China? Seems to me to be at least 10 years (and I seem to recall being very surprised around 2004 or 5, just around the time the gas prices first jumped up from about 75 cents a litre to well over a buck-twenty (I was tripping northward at the time, but people coming up from behind were commenting on the unusual price jumps, and it was up around a dollar twenty by the time we got back), to see the chinese all in cars, with masks; the last I had seen of shots of Beijing, they were all on bicycles.
Gee, and how long have they been wearing the things as a matter of course in China? Seems to me to be at least 10 years (and I seem to recall being very surprised around 2004 or 5, just around the time the gas prices first jumped up from about 75 cents a litre to well over a buck-twenty (I was tripping northward at the time, but people coming up from behind were commenting on the unusual price jumps, and it was up around a dollar twenty by the time we got back), to see the chinese all in cars, with masks; the last I had seen of shots of Beijing, they were all on bicycles.