Why are you guys even making a huge deal about this. Much of the country including some of the most heavily populated areas have been locked down for about two weeks now. This is not a huge deal out of nowhere. It's was obviously headed in this direction for weeks now and it's already done in most places.
if your own ecomony was in shambles with new malls, residences, and high rise commercial building completely empty and uninhabited....and, if you were a communist power completely controlled by a few state leaders how hard would it be to
1) release an engineered SARS-like virus out of your nation's ONLY level 4 virology lab in Wuhan which just so happens to be the world's foremost authority on viruses that reside in asymptomatic bats
2) one you create a virus that can jump from bat to human you then "accidentaly" have a virologist infect himself and then head to an open wet market where thousands of people are infected either directly by the virologist or through the infected bats he supplies to the market
3) once the first cases are diagnosed you immediately quarantine this land locked city so your country does not get mass infected but you allow all international flights to/from the Hubei Province to continue as scheduled for 3 months before any nation bans these trips. And don't forget to make all whistleblowers disappear while you provide inaccurate information to the WHO
4) send out millions of faulty masks, ventilators, gowns, and shields so that healthcare workers in foreign countries have little protection against contracting the virus which is also tearing through 1st responders (police, fire, emt) in the most densely populated enemy cities
5) infiltrate the TDS-obsessed liberal media by creating fake news stories that you know they will parrot to keep the anger focused on one large Orange fella and not on the despicable communist government of China
6) because you released it in a land-locked city and locked down all domestic travel your nation emerges economically months before anyone else, and, are now relied upon even more than pre-Covid for raw materials and finished goods including medication, chemicals, glass, steel, and textiles.
7) and don't forget to accelerate the destruction of the world's oil/petroleum market where you are nearly 100% dependent on imports (look into how many products require petroleum as the originating raw material)
but, please don't call this the CCP or Chinese Virus …
Well for one the 'lockdowns' are total bullsh!t.
Stay at home, but oh, you can leave to go to the store every day or to 'essential' places that stay open, which is basically everything.
People should only be allowed away from home once per week for necessities.
I lean towards this. We’ll findout sooner than later how effective our lockdowns are but Wuhan officials went to Italy to help consult them and they told them that their lockdowns weren’t strong enough. And Italy lockdowns are far more serious than ours.
Hopefully our ace in the hole in all of this is our private sector biotech being #1 in the world and we get a surprise or two from that.
True. I still think it’s helping. Gyms, movie theaters, public places. Schools....planes. Think about how society will or should be after all of this. Life as we know it won’t be anymore. Or shouldn’t be anymore. Packing 450 passengers on an airplane right next to eachother. Having kids desks in schools right next to each other. Lining everybody up for lunch, recess, whatever the fuck.
Things have changed. And if we didn’t do these things it would be much worse. This is a serious issue. Mainly due to the fact that we can’t just simply close off people who have it because we don’t know they have it.
The redneck klan members will ask why we didn’t do anything during the swine Flu but are for this. It has to be about Obama and trump. Nah. If you use common sense....you realize that we were able to confine people who had swine flu because symptoms didn’t take 2-14 days to show. Whole new ball game when you have something that can spread without ppl knowing.
