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Loretta's avatar

Good piece. IMO, the Beijing government is only interested is what makes them look good and what they can gain, whilst ignoring what consequences this could produce for the world. This shows in their actions with COVID-19 and their rocket returning to earth uncontrollably.

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Michael James Munson's avatar

We know SARS-Cov-2 is a coronavirus found in bats and that it was found in a pangolin in March 2019. We also know it mutates on its own pretty effectively. This means it was only a matter of time before the virus was going to get into the human population, IMO. The fact it escaped from a military lab isn't the scandal. The fact the Chinese government denied what it knew about the virus even while studying it in a lab, is the bad behavior. But the U.S. government response was no better. It also downplayed what it knew, whilst setting up over half a million Americans to die. China's government and the U.S. government both acted to protect their political power, more than to protect their citizens and those of the world. There are no heroes in this sordid tale, but at least America had the ability to oust the government that didn't protect its people.

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