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"It's a good thing there is no history before the coronavirus." There's plenty of history and plenty of examples. "China is responsible for this whole thing"
by jariel 7y ago
"It's a good thing there is no history before the coronavirus."
There's plenty of history and plenty of examples.
"China is responsible for this whole thing"
This is actually pretty racist.
More importantly, China's 'authoritarianism' has nothing to do with the origin of the outbreak.
- jshevek 7y ago>"China is responsible for this whole thing" This is actually pretty racist China is in fact responsible for the global pandemic. How is this racist?
- munk-a 7y agoBecause it isn't a fact and is downright false. China isn't great for a number of reasons and their suppression of information may have made this worse but blaming them wholesale for this outbreak is just silly.
- kazinator 7y agoThe pandemic is the result of unsafe handling of infected meat in in China. It had to cross the Chinese border in order to be present elsewhere. Moreover, it was predicted that such a pandemic would start in China, for exactly the reasons that it happened, yet China did nothing to prevent it. Smithsonian Magazine, 2017: "Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-zero-future-pandemic-180965213/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-z... On top of that, the egregiously deadly 1918 Spanish Flu, and numerous other viral epidemics, have historically come from China. National Geographic, 2014: "1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...
- jshevek 7y agoThank you. We can't solve a problem if we cannot discuss it accurately. The Chinese regime is invested in controlling the narrative, and is taking advantage of our deep concerns about racism to convince people to assist them in that control.
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- jshevek 7y agoDid you think I said exclusively responsible for each step? Also, do you have any defense for claiming this is racist?
- jshevek 7y ago>China's 'authoritarianism' has nothing to do with the origin of the outbreak. China's authoritarianism has normalized silencing of dissent, independent thought, open communication with murder or threat of murder. This cost the world valuable time.
- kazinator 7y agoChina's regime has everything to do with the outbreak, mainly due to failing to crack down on those dirty ad hoc markets that trade in unsafe meat. That deliberate inaction is directly linked to authoritarianism. The regime avoids taking action in order to appear to be lenient, which gives it leverage in taking other important freedoms away. That creates a situation in which you can't speak critically of the government, but are able to sell a sick bird that starts a global pandemic. We can readily identify this with the situation of the "proles" in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) The proles are a class who enjoys significant personal freedoms. Activities that would in fact be crimes if perpetrated by members of non-prole classes are permitted to the proles. Proles have access to pornography, and can practice religion, if they want. The regime plants moles among the proles who disseminate misinformation. Orwell nailed it on the head.