Covid 19 CRISIS

The ideology of the two is vastly different: the US, for the most part, is based on liberal individualism. The PRC is run by utopianists who believe any means justifies their magical utopia.
We also don’t disappear doctors for talking about an infectious disease
 
Or protestors to harvest their organs.

This is not to say that the US has not done bad shit or that they always play by the rules they have set for themselves, but to equate China to the US in that regard is disingenuous at best and a false equivalence in any case.
 
We also don’t disappear doctors for talking about an infectious disease

No, but we do allow a news agency, various radio hosts, and idiot pastors to run around spreading misinformation. If our population were intelligent enough, this wouldn’t be a problem but we’re not and clearly falling for bullshit.
 
We all know that no country is without fault in (almost) any area. Many countries have engaged in various forms of genocide, others “built empires” (i.e. subdued peoples and plundered their countries) around the world, most (if not all) have done atrocious damage to the environment.

All of that is in the past, we have to live with it, make amends and repair as much of the damage as we can.

None of that changes anything about this pandemic or the virus that causes it. We shouldn’t let it define our responses to them either.
 
In an amazing display of ignorance the dolt known as the Governor of Georgia admitted to only recently learning of asymptomatic transmission

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...virus-sanjay-gupta-anderson-cooper-nr-vpx.cnn

And in a bid to prove Georgia's new motto "Idiots love company"

Republican State Senator Bruce Thompson, recently hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19 and subsequently testing positive. He was sent home to self-isolate, and proceeded to take three carloads of people to his beach property in Florida,

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...-remarkable-ignorance-on-the-coronavirus.html
 
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No, but we do allow a news agency, various radio hosts, and idiot pastors to run around spreading misinformation. If our population were intelligent enough, this wouldn’t be a problem but we’re not and clearly falling for bullshit.
Have you ever heard of a concept called "freedom of speech"?
 
US intelligence now believes that China and Russia are actively trying to undermine the West through misinformation campaigns.
Well, yeah, US intelligence also believed that Saddam Hussein was one push of a button away from attacking the US mainland with WMDs, so they have a history of believing politically convenient things.

Looks like a few people here are eating it up and actually think that the Chinese government are the good guys :no:
Of all the tired old points you could have made, did you really have to pick "if you're not with us, you're against us"?

Also, nice to see that you're keeping politics out of this thread as per your own request. :roll:
 
US intelligence now believes that China and Russia are actively trying to undermine the West through misinformation campaigns. Looks like a few people here are eating it up and actually think that the Chinese government are the good guys :no:

Why do you believe it now, and not when Russia was using disinformation during the 2016 campaign?
 
 
Of all the tired old points you could have made, did you really have to pick "if you're not with us, you're against us"?

Also, nice to see that you're keeping politics out of this thread as per your own request. :roll:
Seems pretty relevant that the Chinese govt is trying to cover up their massive failings and blaming the west for the spread of the virus.
 
US intelligence now believes that China and Russia are actively trying to undermine the West through misinformation campaigns. Looks like a few people here are eating it up and actually think that the Chinese government are the good guys :no:
Of course they are doing this. Have done this for a long time. Got your man elected, for example.

Does not change the fact that not in terms of how China treat their own people, but in how reliable they are to work with in international relations, I'd take them over the US any day these days - and again, that goes back at least to the first Bush, so has nothing to do with Trump.
 
Seems pretty relevant that the Chinese govt is trying to cover up their massive failings and blaming the west for the spread of the virus.
In an authoritarian regime, there is a huge incentive for everyone to try to cover up their mistakes and failures. If they don't, they may well end up dead. Compare that to Trump's America where people get thrown under the bus because e.g. their governors aren't sucking up to the president enough and you will find that the results are similar: far more deaths than would have been inevitable.

As for blame games, you're playing them yourself, so stop complaning or stop playing.
 
 
Does not change the fact that not in terms of how China treat their own people, but in how reliable they are to work with in international relations, I'd take them over the US any day these days - and again, that goes back at least to the first Bush, so has nothing to do with Trump.
By all means go ahead and buddy up to China instead of the US. I look forward to not paying for your national defense.

China is an authoritarian, oppressive, Communist regime. I don't care how quickly they can ship cheap plastic crap to you - doesn't change the fact that the Chinese govt is evil and basically just killed tens of thousands of people worldwide (and counting).



Oh, right. It's only about COVID-19.
I'm glad you finally read the thread title. Welcome to the conversation.



In an authoritarian regime, there is a huge incentive for everyone to try to cover up their mistakes and failures. If they don't, they may well end up dead. Compare that to Trump's America where people get thrown under the bus because e.g. their governors aren't sucking up to the president enough and you will find that the results are similar: far more deaths than would have been inevitable.
Nice whataboutism but your argument is intellectually dishonest. Whatever you think about US politics, we don't cover up mistakes and failures by disappearing people (well, the Clintons might, but that's a different topic).



Point of all this being that you shouldn't trust China. At all.
 
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