[Mick]

I had read that a disaster with SARS in 2015 had led to a complete reconfiguration of the pandemic response in South Korea. I hadn't realized that applied to all the nations that ring China.

Consider the implication. This is the SECOND time China has done this - within five years.

For reasons of domestic public dialog, many here are reluctant to blame China. I don't think that this applies to any other nation in the world.

The CCP's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic vis-a-vis their interaction with other nations leads me to believe they are an outlaw nation.  And not just because of all the other evidence, including their lend-and-foreclose practices in South America and Africa, their imprisonment of the Uighers, their absolute disregard and flouting of international IP laws and their constant spying on America (and every other country in the world).

Power + Size + Manufacturing Control + Complete Lack of Ethics.  It's funny, we're so quick to castigate American politicians on the left and right because they are easy targets and there is no blowback.  But watching Americans bend over backwards for the CCP (I'm looking at you NBA, among others) because it's an actual political risk...wow.

[Mick]

I had read that a disaster with SARS in 2015 had led to a complete reconfiguration of the pandemic response in South Korea. I hadn't realized that applied to all the nations that ring China.

Consider the implication. This is the SECOND time China has done this - within five years.

For reasons of domestic public dialog, many here are reluctant to blame China. I don't think that this applies to any other nation in the world.

The CCP's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic vis-a-vis their interaction with other nations leads me to believe they are an outlaw nation.  And not just because of all the other evidence, including their lend-and-foreclose practices in South America and Africa, their imprisonment of the Uighers, their absolute disregard and flouting of international IP laws and their constant spying on America (and every other country in the world).

Power + Size + Manufacturing Control + Complete Lack of Ethics.  It's funny, we're so quick to castigate American politicians on the left and right because they are easy targets and there is no blowback.  But watching Americans bend over backwards for the CCP (I'm looking at you NBA, among others) because it's an actual political risk...wow.