"The country doesn’t care enough about vaccination because of a false sense of security."
The country doesn’t care enough about vaccination because of a false sense of security.
3 paragraphs later:
A survey by Ipsos for the World Economic Forum in December examined confidence in Covid-19 vaccines in 10 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and five emerging economies. Some 80 percent of the Chinese respondents said they would take a vaccine if available.
But have you considered that IF China had failed with covid response the percentage of people wanting to be vaccinated COULD be 82%?
I am very intelligent.
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
Michael Parenti, "Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut"
"the chinese are evil and shit"
"the chinese aren't evil and shit, AND THIS IS A BAD THING"
fucking capitalists
the chinese have done so well against covid-19, we have become afraid. we believe they have mutated into superbeings who have an unquenchable taste for flesh. this is why free market ideals and keeping the economy open is so important.
Has the bully who beats me up after school becomes too tough? Is it possible that his daily administration of swirlies and wedgies upon me placed him into a situation that he is unprepared to deal with the possibility that someone is stronger than he is, and will die of shidding his doo doo ass so hard should such a possibility become actually possible?
Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations
There it is.
How in the fuck are you going to criticize a country of over a billion people with only 5k deaths while living in a country that is closing in on half a million. People should throw shit at you for this take.
The real question is, are they doing well enough? With all the new strains coming out of the Anglo zone, will they be able to keep things under control.
