Given that China has done so well and turned COVID-19 into such a great opportunity for themselves (massively increased shipping costs, due to "supply chain limitations"), it's not totally implausible that there is a 3rd option:
deliberate leak.
PRC strategy is very long term and has been:
1. Get the world's business
2. Price go up (later)
3. Increase military spending.
This fits well with a deliberate release rather than a lab leak.
And given their prior history, with maltreatment of their own poulation (recall the melamine in the baby formula debarcle), then PRC would be quite capable of killing a few million of their citizens to achieve their strategic goals.
The only protection against this that you and I little people can do is simply do NOT buy anything Made in China.
I know, it is not easy, but where a choice still exists, we've been doing it for over 20 years.
Most of what I buy comes from China or the Asian Pacific region. People who live in glass houses (usa) don't throw stones anymore; they throw missiles, they throw sanctions, they throw military aid, they cause mass killing, mass distruction . All from their glass house on the hill. The 6 billion brown, black, and yellow folks can see them bright and clear. This I'm 100% sure of.
MA I so agree. We teach our children self-control at a very early age and they get it with an occasional lapse (meltdown). As adults, my worldview is adults in authority have daily meltdowns but no one puts them in a time-out.
I support well reasoned civil discourse between adults. Treat someone like a child, you just increased the odds of them behaving like one. This piece illuminates how we collectively, begin that conversation. Thank you.
Given that China has done so well and turned COVID-19 into such a great opportunity for themselves (massively increased shipping costs, due to "supply chain limitations"), it's not totally implausible that there is a 3rd option:
deliberate leak.
PRC strategy is very long term and has been:
1. Get the world's business
2. Price go up (later)
3. Increase military spending.
This fits well with a deliberate release rather than a lab leak.
And given their prior history, with maltreatment of their own poulation (recall the melamine in the baby formula debarcle), then PRC would be quite capable of killing a few million of their citizens to achieve their strategic goals.
The only protection against this that you and I little people can do is simply do NOT buy anything Made in China.
I know, it is not easy, but where a choice still exists, we've been doing it for over 20 years.
You don't give business to a potential enemy!
Most of what I buy comes from China or the Asian Pacific region. People who live in glass houses (usa) don't throw stones anymore; they throw missiles, they throw sanctions, they throw military aid, they cause mass killing, mass distruction . All from their glass house on the hill. The 6 billion brown, black, and yellow folks can see them bright and clear. This I'm 100% sure of.
Cheers substackers
"because adults ask difficult questions, and children are easier to control."
AS a parent, I am 80% sure it is the other way around
MA I so agree. We teach our children self-control at a very early age and they get it with an occasional lapse (meltdown). As adults, my worldview is adults in authority have daily meltdowns but no one puts them in a time-out.
I support well reasoned civil discourse between adults. Treat someone like a child, you just increased the odds of them behaving like one. This piece illuminates how we collectively, begin that conversation. Thank you.