Saturday, March 07, 2020

A View from China


Here's a first-hand account (as opposed to all the wild second and third hand accounts that conservatives are sharing) of life in China during the outbreak:

Once the threat of COVID-19 was identified, the government was willing and able to sacrifice the economy–what too many Western observers think of as its sole legitimizer–and put all of Chinese society on a total wartime footing against the coronavirus, in the span of one or two weeks. And it’s been wildly effective. 

There's also some commentary on how other nations, including the USA, are handling the virus. (Will the US sacrifice allegiance to its true religion, capitalism, to contain Covid-19? Don't make me laugh.)

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