Ok, let's take an impartial (not BLUE and not RED) look at the situation:
- Did the pandemic start in China? YES
- Was it isolated to one area? YES, WUHAN
- Is there an experimental/research virus lab in Wuhan? YES
- Does China, and Wuhan in particular, partake in "wet markets" which are absolute breeding grounds for viruses and increased risk of animal to human inoculation from an unknown contagion? YES
- Is this situation highly embarrassing to the Chinese? YES x 100
- Did they initially under-report deaths from COVID-19 in Wuhan? YES, by their own admission and later "revised." And if anyone here thinks that a county of 2.3 BILLION people accurately has a COVID-19 infection and death rate about half that of the US as it currently stands, you're 100% delusional.
- Were they slow at reporting a local epidemic of pneumonia based on a new contagion? YES
These are the
facts of the case.
I am 100% FOR demanding reparations from China. This entire pandemic was 100% AVOIDABLE and is a result of human error (virus lab accident) or due to archaic and inhumane market practices (wet markets). Either way, the Chinese are 100% to blame, not the "victims" as they have recently claimed, and need to pay restitution.
The remedy to the manufacturing conundrum is taken right out of a (usually woman's) dating and relationship playbook. Plan:
Slowly, we will move all manufacturing from China to other countries. They will gladly take our business. This may take years. So like a chick, we'll be planning the "breakup" way before the actual event. Then, when the US feels it's at a point of leverage economically with the Chinese, we hit them up for reparations and/or simply stop paying the interest on the US debt they own which is a lot. We put an economic squeeze on them that sends them back to the 1800's economically. Will people suffer? Yes. But so are we in the US, and many are dying. Tit for tat, ass*holes.
The damage and the irreparable harm and carnage China has inflicted on the US due to their ignorance and poor judgement is reprehensible.
They need to be held 100% accountable and punished.
~Dash~