01-25-2021, 03:17 AM
(01-24-2021, 11:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-23-2021, 11:29 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-23-2021, 11:21 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Like war, COVID-19 is unnatural.
Nitpick. War has been part of human interaction throughout the ages. It is, unfortunately, part of our natural behavior. It was cost effective, at least for the winners, though the late Industrial Age. Even then we are only slowly learning to avoid it.
I would add that pandemics are natural too. They have happened throughout history.
The new normal of the Information Age should not make us forget what came before. Abolishing war and plagues is a work in progress.
But I agree with most of the post.
Actually, the COVID bug wasn't a product of nature as you say. COVID19 was most likely manufactured by a group humans (scientists) working in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China. You should start watching FOX more, you might learn something completely different that blue media isn't telling you these days.
No. Just no. Mad scientists may be commonplace grist for horror tales from Frankenstein to Metropolis to ... well, it is a fertile plot line. Mad scientists are rare, except among perverted medical experimenters such as those who did dehumanizing experiments upon helpless 'test patients' in Nazi concentration camps under the encouragement of high-level political figures such as Hermann Goering.
The conventional story comes from someone butchering a bat. Bats do not have good immune systems, but they can segregate bacteria and viruses best kept in them. China watches laboratories that have anything dangerous -- radiation, germs, highly-toxic substances -- carefully. Misconduct with something deadly is likely to get one sentenced to death and executed.
Chinese regulation of 'wet markets' is weak, and one can supposedly get any meat that you want except for human flesh there. Yes, that includes dog meat, which offends many Americans very sentimental about their pooches. But dog meat is relatively safe if it isn't full of medication. Bat meat is terribly unsafe to process.
FoX News is not reliable on anything political... I trust Chinese Central Television far more on international news (but not about China, of course!) than I trust highly-politicized FoX Propaganda Channel.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.