repulsewarrior wrote:...what all governments fear is the collapse of their respective medical systems, their capacity to absorb and treat so many cases at the same time.
The lack of medical equipment and supplies is real. Indeed putting the health of their citizenry before their social-economies is prudent; economies we know, can be rebuilt, lives lost cannot.
There is one tactic that seems to go unnoticed however, in this day and age, and that is the level of misery that any leadership in power may choose to create, (what autocrats typically do,) that by doing so, any solution ending the misery of the people involved is/becomes more acceptable to them; 9/11, as a conspiracy at such a scale, also reflects this hypothesis, given its results: more security, but not better as living. Yet, it is hard to believe that countries world-wide have leaderships (and an elite,) (this time,) working collectively, toward such a single conspirators' end. If anything it demonstrates the (evolutionary) end of Capitalism as Marx and Engels described it, where something faceless and unknown controls the world, very few, bigger than the Sovereign nations/states that they exploit as their own. Beyond the world's greatest economy, having manipulated the world as a single social-economy, they will be forced in this new stage (as yet to be seen), with the world as such completely exploited, to turn on each other. Countries like China are the biggest threat to "them", (at the end of this present stage,) therefore, given how much power in such countries is held, in such few hands, given how "new'' these economies are compared to their own, because failing in such an attempt to subjugate China (the "Chinese" so to speak,) it may expose "the few" as an adversary, notionally as an equal threat to the world at large.
...if this is a conspiracy (to take over 'the world'), it is not the "Chinese" (though they may reap reward,) that have the most to gain from it; in a Capitalist's world though, "being" its opposite, they make for a great patsy (momentarily). It is not the pandemic that people should be worried about therefore, (who to blame,) but the recovery, what so many "stimulas packages'' will do, (instead of 'bettering' the world for 'us') for those who will eventually see the profit in it, namely the "1%".
However it is: our confidence in ourselves is being shaken by events which seem bigger than ourselves; in a world that changed.
...just musing.
The Chinese and the CCP, are the biggest of capitalists.
I'm not saying this is a conspiracy by them at all. I am completely convinced they did not set out to spread China Virus onto the world. I also do not believe this virus is man made. I am more inclined to believe that this virus jumped from animal as it was transmitted to patient zero somewhere in Wuhan, probably at or near the wet markets there. And from there it spread causing havoc initially in China. from there it spread to the rest of the world, through air and ship being they main enablers.
I am however, open to the idea that Chinese Intelligence
could be exacerbating the spread across North America, EU and Australia mainly. There are videos circulating of a Chinese person going round to all electronic shops with a container and touching all electronic items in the store. The veracity of this video is not confirmed to be legit as there is also a lot of nonsense out there and misinformation and also fear mongering.
In Australia, we are only too aware of the creativity from Chinese Intelligence. We know they are active, and we also know they had infiltrated virtually all our institutions, including Parliament House and we also no there is nothing they won't do for China, including abductions of Chinese Australian Citizens, Murder of Chinese Australians and also the murder of an Australian MP.
We also know that we have Chinese Australian business men who are members of the CCP. One of them bought a Billion Dollars worth of Australian Pharmaceuticals and depleted our supplies just before China Virus hit us.
We are also observing that amid all the economic chaos, it is Chinese capital that is trying to buy stock market listed companies in the EU, North America and Australia after their prices collapsed due to China Virus. So it seems China believes they have a lot to gain.
Our banks and capitalists here are being very cautious right now, because they don't know when this is going to end, hence there will be more market volatility in the near future.
Secondly, the global response in my view has been a knee jerk reaction, to the detriment of the economy. For instance, I can understand drastic measures being taken in the US, Italy, Spain, Germany and a few other countries. I can also understand Australia's response which has been quick and pro-active. But now it's time to review EVERYTHING in 2 weeks and loosen the restrictions as our Authorities are well in control. Our Health System is a long way from being overwhelmed. Last thing we need is locking everyone in their homes like what has been done in Cyprus. Workers need to go to work. They are the front line soldiers now along with our Nurses and Doctors. Workers need to keep the economy alive to ensure there is an economy after its all over. We are not going to be able to save every single China Virus Death. So we need to be practical too with regards to RISK Vs REWARD.
