Whereas the 'strongman' dictators are naturally using the pandemic to consolidate power, 'weakman' would be authoritarian Trump, doesn't even know how to use this opportunity, which is ironic in the extreme considering that he invoked fictitious emergencies to try and push his racist agenda.

But while the US pursues an america first policy, China, having shown how to contain the virus in a population 4 times the size of the US, is using the situation which is likely to go on for a year, to gradually replace the US as an influential player on the world stage.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/south-america/as-virus-approaches-china-courts-l...

Take 8 minutes to watch this video.




Best regards,

 If this is bioengineered China has won. They have a virus that can be manufactured leaving no trace, which is the equivalent of having ammunition that turns into something else after killing it's target.

Eegore wrote on 04/01/20 at 16:59:45:




There is no doubt this virus was housed in a lab. That part is not under dispute, horseshoe bats don't live near that market in Wuhan, not for 900km. That's like a farmer taking bats nearly the entire length of florida to sell bats.
It may not have been made in a lab. They may have just been studying it, they may have not intended it as a weapon. They could have just negligence as their defense, not malice. In nay case, we need to penalize china to reverse the economic and human toll they have taken.

Cool.
Srinath.

That there aare no Gene splicing traces or clues that a scientist BUILT it doesnt mean it was brought into existence by putting a milder virus in an environment that would feed it and give it an environment that would enhance its liklihood of mutating.
Once it was out in public, China DIDNT take steps to halt the spread,they chose to lie, and suppress the trugth. People who spoke out and tried to warn the world were shut down. One lady doctor is missing..
They may not have intentionally built it, but may well have allowed it to mutate into its current form. And they Certainly chose to allow travel when they knew that responsible action would have been to stop loadig their people on airliners to visit places across the globe,,

The pain that we should visit on their economy is YUGE,,,
and the notion that drugs and military equipment etc. currently made in China ?? Well,, thats STEWPID..

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/02/20 at 19:35:34:




Yes China weaponized the virus after it got out. Its target - the free world and their way of life as well as economy manufacturing etc etc.

Now about it not being in a lab - this bat does not live in Wuhan area. Other bats do, just not this one. Its like saying a small fisheman/hunter in a market in Montana selling alligators native to the southeast -
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw230

Makes no freaking sense. But say I was a lab in Montana and had developed a Gator bite suit among other bullet proof suits this is just 1 product I'm making. There it makes sense to get a few alligators and have them bite me wearing the suit. LOL.
People that sell produce and animals at a wet market are the brokest of the broke in most cases. They wont be transporting anything they cant carry on their backs or their bicycles. Even in china people act in their self interest - d-uh. And so do labs. Likely the labs experimented on the bats. Then someone chopped it up and sold it as bat meat, or fed to other animals instead of "wasting it". Was the virus the result of china making it - no, but was it the result of someone being filthy/cheap/negligent/ignorant ? Definitely.
China now is hiding information, hiding and cremating the dead and covering up the news and cranking up its economic engine by simply manufacturing its way out, feeding dead bodies to its ambition of world domination. You know after the 2nd world war when germany lost - people in villages across germany even the ones that had nothing to do with fighting in the war ended up just killing themselves. The promise of world domination is a huge motivating factor. It can lead people conditioned to hear and obey (which is China to T) to perform ultimate sacrifices, and that is what we are seeing here. If that domination dream is taken away - and it will be - depending on how suddenly it is, we will see mass suicides or - well a flatter curve of suicides. What needs to be done is the leadership in china needs to be entirely eradicated, while serious man power and counselling needs to be deployed - all by china - completely internal, because the rest of the world does not have the manpower to do this - Take out all politicians at all levels, and send out millions if not 100's of millions of volunteers to the population to prevent those suicides. The alternative would be to - well let them crash and burn by economic isolation. Or well, we all learn to say "how high" in Chinese. I think ironically its hooo haaaiiiiiigghhh

Cool.
Srinath.

eau de sauvage wrote on 03/31/20 at 15:45:22:

 China, having shown how to contain the virus in a population 4 times the size of the US,

From a UL Favored source, "Time".
"...relief efforts have been undermined by opportunism and bungling by mercenary vendors and a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) desperate to spin the pandemic, which began within its borders, for its own propaganda purposes..."

"Would that be similar to a politician, (Or UL, DFI, FDS, Socialist)
Seeing a shooting with a certain firearm, then decides banning that firearm, will stop all such shootings ?
Or, expects that putting up a sign, will ban firearms from where that that sign is ?
Or, writing more laws, which say the same things as the laws on the books now, which are ignored ?
Or other absolute, Fairy Dust Sprinkling, solutions ?

In other words:
If only we could get all these armchair firearm experts,
(especially those that, ””say””, they have a firearm),
to understand how the real world of firearms works."

 Its not like that.

 But if we need to turn every thread into a gun control issue then yes I would say that the people that use firearms have more knowledge about firearms than those that don't.  

 But in this case the guys on this forum are an exception.  Their internet searching has made them far more knowledgeable on most topics than anyone doing the actual work in the actual environment.