[ExI] Trusting China information was Protest

[spike at rainier66.com]

>...And there is next to no reason for them to cover up how they have done.
It is much better than the US has done.  The US, for a variety of reasons,
squandered a couple of months at the start.

 

Keith

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Keith,

 

I noticed the hardest-hit countries by covid were Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy,
Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, USA, Switzerland, Canada, Ecuador, Brazil, in
that order.  We all had the same news from the same sources about covid in
January of 2020, but we can see a common factor: the hardest-hit places were
those with a lot of international travel.  All those places had citizens
abroad when the pandemic struck, and plenty of Chinese citizens doing
business before we knew the danger.  There is not one thing these
governments could do with those cases: people have a right to return to
their own homes.  Some were infected.  They can make them self-quarantine
for a couple of weeks, but as far as I know there is no legal means of
enforcing that anywhere in these hardest-hit countries.  

 

I have a neighbor who we think had covid.  He still went out walking in the
neighborhood as soon as he was physically able (we gave him plenty of space
(on his sincere advice.))  I don't know how it works in China, but I have
heard that if the government (at any level) gives orders, the people must
obey, and they do.  Here, there are no known legal repercussions if we
ignore social distancing orders from the county while we riot, burn and
loot.

 

spike

 

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