07-30-2020, 09:51 PM
(07-30-2020, 08:55 PM)chrisk Wrote: SCC reported about twice the number of cases today as China did. China has about 700 times the population of SCC.It's a big world. The issue isn't binary.
Plenty of intellectual room to condemn Trump (for appalling leadership since March) and China.
Whatever the failures of the US in containment since March, the colossal cynicism of China in letting the damn thing escape without fair warning should not be forgotten or forgiven.
I'm also with 76lsjumb on the constant US bashing. The comparisons to Norway, or Iceland, or New Zealand are just silly - island or peninsular countries with far smaller populations and easily controllable immigration. (New Zealand, for example, has a population of 4.3 million. SCC alone is 1.9).
The nations that are having difficulty seem to me to share far more diffuse economies, small businesses, and so on. I'm simply not holding up Germany as a sociological model, despite the undeniable fact that it responded to the virus more effectively.
All this has to do with the savage distemper that has overtaken the media since Trump.
And Chris K, if you want to credit any reports from China - the most cynical and chauvinistic government in the world - be my guest.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.