China Boomeranging
National Review,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/18/2020 1:47:23 PM
Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.
Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew
Reply 1 - Posted by:
obdurate 3/18/2020 2:26:17 PM (No. 350121)
The downside is Trump will not be re-elected. Yes, the american voter is that ignorant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
justavoter 3/18/2020 2:35:12 PM (No. 350129)
This will make the next political talking point of being pharmacy independent from foreign drugs as big as closing the borders was in 2016. Being dependent on China for insulin, common generic drugs, ect. is suicidal now. China is not our friend.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/18/2020 2:44:55 PM (No. 350135)
My advice on dealing with China is to treat it like their own classic "finger pull trap". Namely, if you only put one finger in it's no problem to pull it out, but if you put both fingers in then the harder you try to pull them out the tighter you are stuck.
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DVC 3/18/2020 3:10:05 PM (No. 350148)
Excellent commentary, as usual. Especially cogent....
"Here in the U.S., COVID-19 will create bipartisan pressure to adopt policies of keeping key U.S. industries — such as medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, and military applied high-tech — in America. Americans will not again wish to outsource the vast majority of their chemotherapy-drug, antibiotic, and heart-medicine production to a government that cannot be trusted and that sees such globalized output as a weapon to be used in extremis."
Yes. And this will create (recreate) a lot good, high paying jobs in this country. More money will circulate inside the USA - not be exported to China to be used to power their military machine.
Seems like there will be a large rainbow after this storm.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/18/2020 3:16:23 PM (No. 350150)
On a tangentially related topic, a friend asked me for a reference on why I say that China is the source of flu.
Scroll down to the part on "influenza" in this Diseases from Animals primer from WebMD.
https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/features/diseases-from-animals-primer
And another article about the medieval Chinese lifestyle being the cause of the world's flu, in almost all cases.
http://old.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010429chinafluhealth3.asp
An important extract from the second article:
"Like other experts, Shortridge believes the 1918-19 pandemic was misnamed because it did not originate in Spain. Rather, he thinks it started with human-pig contact in China and traveled to Europe with Chinese laborers who dug trenches for World War I battlefields."
China has been killing people around the world because of their medieval lifestyle for over a century, at least.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fishbone 3/18/2020 3:42:20 PM (No. 350164)
#6, quick research (Wikipedia/Black Death) indicates they’ve been sharing at least from ~1347.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
qr4j 3/18/2020 4:05:41 PM (No. 350180)
From VDH's lips (or pen) to God's ears (or eyes)!!! I encourage everyone to pray the Great Litany. See the Book of Common Prayer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
weirdone 3/18/2020 4:33:54 PM (No. 350206)
1972 Nixon opens the door to China.
APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) went into effect 2007. Trade with China exploded. Not only that, the huge sucking sound heard after NAFTA was many times louder as American jobs and Business moved to China, a lot of it on the American tax payer's dollar. GM as an example received $13.4 billion in TARP funds and moved their Chevy Volt and Cadillac manufacturing to China along with their Research and Design facilities.
Unknown to most Americans a tremendous amount of canned goods in local super markets comes from China along with most chicken and pork products.
The trade imbalance with China for January 2020 was, American exports $7,134.3 million, imports from China 41,603.8 a negative balance of 34,469.5 million US $. The over whelming brilliance of our ruling elite (in both Parties) requires us to support our #1 enemy and their military as we are captive to trade deals made against our own interests.
I wonder why we have also imported H1N1, SARS, Bird Flu, Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu among others, and the current plague that has shut down the World Economy?
Those of you on the left who oppose Trump and his America First Policies, be sure to enjoy your viral cocktails courtesy of China. Ain't Globalization wonderful?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/18/2020 5:09:54 PM (No. 350234)
''the CDC as of the afternoon of March 16 reports that there are currently 3,437 cases of known coronavirus infections and 68 deaths attributed to the virus, or about two deaths per 100 infected...''
Make that two deaths per hundred of KNOWN infected. There may be 10,000 unknown cases of infection, due to the fact that some people have very mild symptoms or don't seek medical treatment, believing they had the Flu or something else. This is why publishing numbers doesn't help calm, or even educate, people. The CDC would get paid the same to keep their statistics unbiased!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 3/18/2020 5:18:47 PM (No. 350248)
Send every Chinese citizen currently in this country back to China, and don't let any Chinese into this country. I just learned that a Cardiac physician from China working at Johns Hopkins Hospital went back to China for a week, and then came back to JHH with the virus and infected a nurse or two at the hospital. He told no one he went to China, and it was discovered only after viewing his Facebook page. To say the cardiac staff at Hopkins was PO'd, is a understatement.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
judy 3/18/2020 5:27:21 PM (No. 350257)
Boycott China products!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/18/2020 5:50:03 PM (No. 350287)
Wonder where Dollar General and Walmart will get products now?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 3/18/2020 10:23:33 PM (No. 350463)
Come on people, give china a break. This is just China's way of saving the earth from GLOBAL WARMING, by eliminating thoes dreaded carbon producing humans.
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