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10-27-2020 06:25 AM |
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Originally Posted by JimJohnson
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Great news.
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This study sounds as much or maybe more promising than any others. Stop trying to demonize the Chinese as they may very well save lives.
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Bear in mind that the link is to a Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry trade group online newsletter that may have useful information but may also be carefully walking the “party line” and be very pro-Chinese (nothing wrong with that, per se, but just keep it in mind). (I used to teach in Beijing, so I know a bit about how these things work.)
Below is a page from another featured article on the site to which you linked. Read the one sentence summary. Is this covertly suggesting that the virus may have gotten free from a research lab in Wuhan by accident? If so, be sure that the government will never admit it, even though the government is not to blame. They will just take steps to keep it from happening again. Remember, these are the regulations and supervision that allowed powdered melamine to be used as filler in baby formula.
As for the post above that claims, “China . . . cares nothing for it's people,” that is not true. It cares in a different way than we are used to. It is, we might say, highly maternalistic, trying to control many aspects of people’s lives. I remember when women were questioned each month about their menstrual cycles lest they get pregnant a second time and be pressured to get abortions if they got pregnant again. I remember when the son of a party leader was publicly executed for “spiritual pollution”: smuggling in copies of “Playboy” to sell. They have cradle to grave care of many sorts, though less than they had forty years ago. The government doesn’t do this because it doesn’t care. It does it because it DOES care. But the Chinese Communist government way is to put the good of the country above the good of the individual, and the good of all individuals depends on controlling everyone. Part of the Chinese government’s way, oddly, is to have very lax regulations about some things regarding business, making money, and safety, and that helps companies make money, but it can lead to problems or even disasters. In some ways, China is more “free market” than the U.S., but in other ways, it is tighter. Still, again, the government DOES care for its people, but in a different way than we are used to. It has been this way for many centuries.
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