plawolf
Lieutenant General
The same western media armchair generals types have been predicting the end of China since the PRC was founded.
So far we have only seen the impact of a full blown outbreak on China, but from everything that has been demonstrated so far, China has been almost uniquely capable of having the political will, economic might, technological capabilities and industrial power to stop such a dangerous virus in its tracks.
As disruptive and costly as that might have been, it will pale into insignificance compared to what a full blown, unchecked outbreak would do to economies and nations.
If you think a month of national quarantine is disruptive, what do you think it would be like to have significant parts of your workforce constantly off battling for their lives and up to 2% of you workforce simply dying very quickly?
China has expended monumental costs to buy itself and the rest of the world time to prepare, and the west has utterly squandered that precious time.
The western media is chiefly responsible with their petty nit picking disparaging coverage of China’s entire efforts from the start. The western MSM was so obsessed with trying to damage China with its handling of the virus that it had lured west into an unforgivable sense of complacency by creating the completely false impression that the outbreak was so bad in China only because of the utter incompetence and ‘secrecy’ of the Chinese government and ‘unclean’ nature of the Chinese people.
By creating the impression that the virus was a uniquely Chinese calamity, the western MSM also created the equally false impression that western nations would be categorically better able to handle it because of ‘free speech’ and ‘democracy’. As such, western nations and people’s didn’t really take the outbreak serious until it literally came knocking at their door. But now that it has arrived, it found the west utterly unprepared.
Poorer, 3rd world nations that do not have the resources and/or political will as China will be hit even harder.
After the dust settles, it may well prove that China was the least disrupted and damaged place on Earth of everywhere that has suffered a serious outbreak.
If anything, that would further cement China’s place as the world’s factory.
Also, the impact of the virus is likely to lead to a push towards more automation in China itself, which will also further improve Chinese resilience to similar disruptions in the future.
So far we have only seen the impact of a full blown outbreak on China, but from everything that has been demonstrated so far, China has been almost uniquely capable of having the political will, economic might, technological capabilities and industrial power to stop such a dangerous virus in its tracks.
As disruptive and costly as that might have been, it will pale into insignificance compared to what a full blown, unchecked outbreak would do to economies and nations.
If you think a month of national quarantine is disruptive, what do you think it would be like to have significant parts of your workforce constantly off battling for their lives and up to 2% of you workforce simply dying very quickly?
China has expended monumental costs to buy itself and the rest of the world time to prepare, and the west has utterly squandered that precious time.
The western media is chiefly responsible with their petty nit picking disparaging coverage of China’s entire efforts from the start. The western MSM was so obsessed with trying to damage China with its handling of the virus that it had lured west into an unforgivable sense of complacency by creating the completely false impression that the outbreak was so bad in China only because of the utter incompetence and ‘secrecy’ of the Chinese government and ‘unclean’ nature of the Chinese people.
By creating the impression that the virus was a uniquely Chinese calamity, the western MSM also created the equally false impression that western nations would be categorically better able to handle it because of ‘free speech’ and ‘democracy’. As such, western nations and people’s didn’t really take the outbreak serious until it literally came knocking at their door. But now that it has arrived, it found the west utterly unprepared.
Poorer, 3rd world nations that do not have the resources and/or political will as China will be hit even harder.
After the dust settles, it may well prove that China was the least disrupted and damaged place on Earth of everywhere that has suffered a serious outbreak.
If anything, that would further cement China’s place as the world’s factory.
Also, the impact of the virus is likely to lead to a push towards more automation in China itself, which will also further improve Chinese resilience to similar disruptions in the future.
