In its zealous effort to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has trampled on the rights of U.S. diplomats to an extent previously unknown, compelling the State Department to take drastic measures to protect them. Beijing’s heavy-handed pandemic practices have forced the United States’ representatives there to live in constant fear.
:kitty-cri: pls protec the smol diplomats
For the past two years, U.S. diplomatic personnel in China have been forced to confront the risk of being detained or separated from their family members for either testing positive for the coronavirus or being deemed a “close contact” of someone who has. In fact, 16 U.S. diplomatic personnel or their family members have been sent, against their will, to Chinese government medical quarantine centers since the pandemic began,
:xi-gun: hello u must quarantine or people will die
:wojak-nooo: nooooo
Chinese government boasts about its handling of the pandemic, claiming suspiciously low numbers of deaths and infections since the virus emerged in Wuhan in late 2019. But whatever success the authorities have achieved in containing the spread has come at a steep cost for Chinese citizens
:cap-think: suspiciously low deaths from the Wuhan China Virus, but also if it's true then it's also bad
b/c they wig out when they fail individually, and find solace and security in the fact that they are white westerners
most people have experienced this, if you beat a white guy at soccer, or at a video game, or you're dating a white girl, or you got a better grade than him, there's a certain breed of white male that will just wig out quite racistly when this happens.
The reason this happens is because they failed, and they scramble to fix this "insult" to their individual self by reminding themselves of the status of the collective self (aka white people). In this way, the white is always winning in his mind, even when he loses.
The problem is that now, even that collective status is being threatened, mostly by China, so damage control has to increase exponentially, and the wigouts become much more intense. A white person can no longer say "well at least I can afford food" or "at least I'm not dying of a plague" whenever China bests their country at something. On the contrary, it is their country who is increasingly suffering from these things.
It is like the psychological version of growing up as a trust fund kiddie, and then finding out when you're 25 that the trust fund is gone. Except since the "wealth" in this case is a vague, qualitative, immaterial status instead of physical money, you can endlessly pretend that it still exists--these articles are the result of that.