Norovirus
Spanish Flu
German Measles
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Ebola
Guinea Worm
West Nile Virus
Lyme Disease
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever...
Just a few examples of diseases getting their names from where they originated.
This is a Chinese virus. The Chinese government, still communist to the core, treats their people like dogshit and their people live in conditions fitting the treatment. The dangerous and unsanitary food practices there would astound all of us.
China also has state-controlled media the likes of which Americans cannot really fathom but arrogantly believe we can. They still use many of the same core disastrous and rights-violating practices begun by Mao in the Great Leap Forward, including the Laogai prison camps for their own people and also immigrants, especially muslims.
China not only failed to get in front of this virus even when they knew how dangerous it was, but they tried to hide it from people and in turn the rest of the world. They also let their people continue to fly out, including via direct flights from Wuhan to Northern Italy, something strangely absent in reporting. Italy had direct flights to and from Wuhan because of the amount of workers imported by China to work the China-owned textile and leather factories.
Once it got out China used their propaganda to hide numbers from the world. Now, they are peddling the message that this was America’s fault. Do not undermine the significance of that desperate ploy and don't fall for it. What it means is that China knows it is in deep trouble over this and messed up big time. They are afraid of what their people, but more likely the world think of them now. Blaming big bad America is their attempt to make themselves sound better to European and American citizens who view the US not as a solution but as a problem. It wont work.
Im not writing this to get in a debate about Trump. Thats for another thread and only distracts from this real and unique issue. Regardless of how you feel about Trump people need to understand that whatever bad anyone in the US has done it is childs play compared to what the Chinese govt is capable of and has done. Moa is not some ancient relic of a forgotten time.
Ive had to study China a lot and one thing that has surprised me is the utter lack of appreciation for how corrupt the Chinese are. By that I mean their govt. but thats a lot of people. Perhaps we dont care because Stalin looms larger in history. But he shouldn't if we’re going by body count. Maybe its because we know how much we deal with China so we want to ignore it and pretend its ok.
China needs to pay for this. First, pull all pharmaceutical orders out of China. Work with central and south American countries to produce, along with America, over the counter and pharmaceutical drugs for the world. Then begin working on manufacturing. Technology can be shifted to US and Japan. Italy and other European nations need to say enough, too. They need to disallow foreign ownership of any businesses, at least from China. These things will hurt in the short run but its the only way China will listen and everyone will benefit in the long run. China has gotten away with too much for too long. Time to cut them off the worlds purse and hit em where it hurts.
Its the China Virus. Plain and simple. Its factually accurate.
