One thing I should have mentioned in my previous post is that I thought that pronouncing the outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in China an epidemic was premature. Has the WHO (or anybody else other than the new media) actually determined it is an epidemic? There are actual criteria, you know.
Some other things I did not work into the post are that plague originated in China, the “Spanish” flu originated in China, and we’ve had serious flu outbreaks originating in China roughly once a generation over the period of the last 60 years. There’s a message there. Conditions in China are conducive to the development of new diseases, presumably zoonotic diseases. It’s not just their population. It’s a combination of the population, their practices, and their attitude towards disease and health care.
Either China needs to become a much better global citizen than it is or we need to start treating it differently.
Who bears the cost? How about a tithe on Walmart?
And I haven’t even touched on China’s routine abuse of antibiotics.
Wonder if Xi would entertain the thought that culling the aged of China wouldn’t be all bad.
China is not alone in the abuse of antibiotics. Across the counter sales are not uncommon around the world.
Steve