Zero COVID is destroying China.
China had a good run both in the media and with our elites for over 3 decades–because there was a ton of money to be made and as with all gold rushes the damage is ignored.
Our tech companies rely on the country, our consumer products often come from there, and our entertainment and sports industries have grown reliant on their patronage. It turns out that the bargain we made with the country had larger downsides than expected.
President Trump was the first president to fight back against the hollowing out of the American economy, but until COVID hit it was an uphill battle. COVID changed everything, though, although not for exactly the right reasons.
It is highly likely that COVID was engineered in a Chinese lab using CDC grant money, and that Anthony Fauci has been working semi-successfully to cover it up. Personally I don’t think China would have released it intentionally–look at the damage it has done to China itself. They were merely careless. The US itself has at times been quite sloppy with dangerous viruses, so it’s no surprise that China was even more careless.
But it isn’t China’s role in creating COVID and failing to warn the US and the world about it that has led to the US and other countries decoupling our economies, too slowly, from China’s. Just as we have mostly ignored genocide and slave labor in China, a few million deaths wouldn’t have gotten in the way of the big guys getting rich off cheap labor.
But it’s not just China destroying itself: Mask Mandate Reinstated At Rutgers After Faculty Legal Action: When Rutgers lifted its campus-wide mask mandate last Monday, its unionized professors filed a legal complaint with the state.
by Glenn