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American Default25/9/2021 Sharing a mail I sent to a friend who asked me about the potential default of America. This was vetted by an ex-SVP and Chief Economist of the World Bank, currently professor of economics at Peking University. He says it's basically correct.
America controls both the currency (USD, the international reserve currency) and conduit (SWIFT) for international trade. This is their global imperial power. They can print paper to buy the world's limited and precious resources while the rest of the world must earn or borrow the paper. They also decide who can or cannot trade. In addition, they control all the banks and financial institutes doing international business. America can strangle and impose oppressive fines, indict and hijack, as well as corrupt and incite regime change, to turn any intransigent player into a whimpering idiot. They control the world's media and the narrative. America can do no wrong and you're all assholes living in hellholes. Most importantly, America can print paper to build the greatest military force to control your mineral resources and trade routes, meanwhile pacifying and civilizing sundry barbaric people of defenseless countries. And guess who is paying for this monstrosity? If you think it's the American taxpayers, you'd be wrong. It's all smoke and mirrors. The ruling class in America creates a ton of money from thin air which becomes debt that the rest of the enslaved world must buy. That debt becomes a debt of the American people which they can never repay, therefore they become debt slaves, tamely complying to their master's orders. And the money created eventually ends up in the coffers of the 1% American military industrial financial warmongering scammers. Since the rest of the enslaved world ends up being holders of American debt that pays almost no interest, of a currency that is being created at an exponential rate, and paying interest that is also created out of thin air, you the victims are paying for the oppressive weapons of the American monstrosity. Capische? By the way, America did not invent this beautiful scheme. After kicking the Persians out of Greece in 479 BCE, Athens was the liberating hero beloved even by their perennial enemy, the Spartans. Then Athens formed the Delian League to fight the Persians. Everyone must pay the League and send their sons to fight. The treasury of the League soon ended up in Athens and used to enrich Athenians. Member cities desiring to leave the League were sacked, their men slaughtered, their women enslaved, and their sons castrated. Athens at the head of the League became an imperial power even crueler than the Persians, who had Greek allies. In less than a generation, Athens turned from being the most admired Greek city state into the most hated. Eventually, it led to war with the Spartans, who allied with the Persians to destroy Athens. Such is the fate of empires. The idea of setting up an international currency for trading is theoretically fine, and the SDR of the IMF serves that purpose to some extent. But at the end of the day, America still controls the IMF with veto power and the SDR is but an accounting tool. Power and trust are what cause a promissory note to be used as a token of wealth for trading between countries. Nixon actually defaulted and robbed the world blind. It's a well known history which you can read up on your own (Google Nixon gold default). America and its dollar still has power, but trust is badly eroded. There is no good alternative at the moment that can challenge the USD, but China's RMB is gaining, slowly and steadily. The digital RMB is dangerous for the US dollar hegemony because people can pay anywhere in the world just by using a smartphone, and the transaction is done instantaneously, without the need for clearing through banks, without any bank fees, and certainly does not need clearing through any American system, completely kicking America out of the loop. No more American clearing, no more SWIFT, no more waiting for days going through the international banking system, and most importantly, no more American unilateral sanctions. Besides, RMBs are appreciating because of China's growing economic power, which by the way, is based on production and innovation rather than running the printers, persistent lying, and committing highway robbery. Below is an article about what happens if America defaults on its treasury bills. I suggest that China shouldn't have to worry about its 1 trillion dollar reserve. America won't let China buy anything valuable with it anyways. Anything of value China wants to buy is against the interest of American national security. America will eventually have to pay up, as the T-bills in China's reserve is only a small portion in the whole pot. In any case, the collapse of the USD hegemony is much more valuable to China and the rest of the world than empty American paper promises, which by now should be badly discounted. If you trust habitual liars, then it's your problem. The fall of the USD hegemony means that America can no longer print its way out of problems and let the rest of the world bail them out. They'll have a hard time printing trillions for their military adventures. Every trip to the South China Sea needs to be balanced against servicing their debt. Their bases all around the world may need to figure out a way to generate an income, maybe by selling military shirts and boots, all made in China, of course. America will have to produce valuable commodities or sell their valuable assets in order to trade with the rest of the world. Let's hope that day comes soon. The writer of the following article William Pesek is based in Tokyo and is a mainstream journalist, writing for Nikkei Asia and Forbes, etc. When reading articles, always learn a bit about the writer's background. This article is supposed to be behind a pay wall which apparently doesn't work. If you can't read the article but want to, let me know. US default a greater risk than Evergrande meltdown
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Huawei's Meng Wanzhou Freed in US deal24/9/2021 Breaking: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou heads back to China
I got this from my China Writers Group. Here is my response: It is a foregone conclusion. When everyone was shaking in their boots that Meng would be sent to the US, I said 100% it would not happen. Two Michaels is worth at least a Meng. It's simple mathematics. After the new Canadian ambassador to Beijing was appointed, he had been feverishly working behind the scene to resolve this public demonstration of imperious lawlessness. China also has a short leash on many Americans and their not insignificant investments in China. The rest is bluster; America is good at it. Meanwhile, be ready for a torrent of bullshit from the lying machines of the West. The naked emperor has no tailors, and the Kabuki theater has no masks. Scofflaws advocating for the rule of law; what a sad joke America has become! Unfortunately, Canada is now exposed as just an American dog, and a stupid one at that. Poor Pierre (Trudeau) turns in his grave. Pundits are already rejoicing in the expected return to normalcy of the Canadian-China and US-China relationships. What utterly delusional morons!
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The following is my correspondence with China Writers Group, a small circle of Western writers who are knowledgeable about and interested in China.
An important event is going to happen tomorrow (Saturday; Sep. 25th) but one can't seem to find any news reports in the West about it. Taiwan's Kuomintang, the political party of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, is going to elect a new leader. No one cares, right? Kuomintang has been totally discredited by its string of failures. Its young members have left the sinking ship in droves. There is no hope when all the candidates are well known imbeciles who know nothing beyond repeating the same drivel that everyone is tired of hearing. Yes, let's get back to the 1992 Consensus and keep the ambiguous status quo forever, as if Xi will let that happen. I have a Taiwanese friend (an old ROC soldier, descendant of the Yunnan warlord's clique) who is so disgusted with the KMT that he has given up hope that the party will survive. Until a professor and the principal of the Sun Yat-sen School leaps into the fray, and over the course of one month, goes from being an unknown to the top of the polls over his three opponents, two of them with significant entrenchment in the party. His name is Chang Ya-chung [張亞中; pinyin: Zhang Yazhong]. How does he do it? He advocates unification with mainland China to form One-China! Taiwan dark horse pushing cross-strait union Pro-Reunification Candidate Chang Ya-chung Edges Ahead as Chairman Election in Taiwan’s KMT Nears The grassroot support for Prof Chang is amazing. There are thousands of comments on Youtube clips in which the dark horse candidate explains his policy, and practically 100% supports him. It appears that he has stirred up a political storm. If he intends to push for unification regardless of whether he wins the KMT leadership or not, and therefore creates a movement, he may become a power to be reckoned with. In fact, Prof Chang could overturn the Taiwan political applecart. We are now faced with several scenarios all of which mean the realization of the One-China union probably within the next five years. Let me explain. It's another long essay; have patience. I wrote in August of 2020 about a great strategic opportunity for China to unilaterally unify with Taiwan with minimal risk. It was based on the predictions, all of which were backed by simple observation, that (1) Trump would certainly lose the election (2) Trump would certainly not concede (3) Trump would therefore try to destabilize America in order to remain president (4) Trump would likely not succeed but he would create a royal mess (5) Biden would no doubt continue the war on China, and would use Taiwan as a pawn. Biden's public protestations of America's love of peace are laughable lies that will fool no one. All of the predictions have come about. There was however an overestimation of Trump's team. Trump was not surrounded by geniuses, and rather than stopping the legal ratification of the Electoral College's votes in December, he used the mob to disrupt the formality at Congress in January. It was an asinine and meaningless task. Trump will suffer the consequences of his stupidity. At the end of October 2020, just a few days before the presidential election, I wrote another article explaining how it would be possible for China to unilaterally effect reunification with Taiwan without much risk of bloodshed. One only needs to look at how Russia reunified with Crimea without firing a shot, and recently how easy it has been for the Taliban to reconquer Afghanistan to know that it's possible. First of all, the narrative must be changed from "Unification by Military Force" or Wutong [武统] to "Defending Taiwan from Traitors and Foreigners." I'd like to see anyone try to stop the PLA from doing its duty of defending the sovereignty of China. ROC soldiers are conscripted. Most of them are ordinary young men and women with a family and the prospect of going home to live a long and fruitful life, hopefully in a peaceful and prosperous society. They're not going to be stupid, as long as they understand that the PLA is coming to help them do their job, which is also to defend Taiwan from traitors and foreigners. Now, it is not possible that I was the only person who had the perspicacity to notice the strategic situation. General Miley noticed it and he made secret calls to his counterpart in China before the election (Oct. 30th) and two days after the Jan. 6 Trump revolution fiasco. Pundits and mouthpieces have made all kinds of comments on Miley's secret calls to the enemy, but they're all wrong. It was indeed as General Miley had explained, he was simply doing his job. General Miley called to deliver a tiresome Nixonian madman threat--we have a mad man at the helm and he may send nukes your way, so don't do anything to give him an excuse. The poor general also had to deliver a contradicting message--at the same time, America is not falling apart; everything is hunky dory and the well-oiled machine is running smoothly. Which is to say, the Pentagon and the army are standing ready to attack when ordered. If I was General Miley and I knew China had a window of opportunity to take Taiwan at no cost, completely turning the geopolitical tables on the US ring of fire around China, as well as controlling the majority of the world's output in microchip, that's what I would do to stop them. If I was China, I would of course ignore him. America is good at posturing and bullying small countries; just check out its wars since WWII. It will not destroy its dollar hegemony and the printed façade of its wealth by starting a nuclear war with China. Just think if you're the owner of a vast orchard with your finger on a button that will burn everything to ashes, including yourself and your family, would you do it just to kill off squirrels picking nuts from your trees? I guess not. The madman threat is just a ruse. it won't even fool the squirrels. As I said before, not a single American will die for Taiwan. The orchard owners are not as stupid as we think, or they would not be owners and we, their slaves. I think, although I don't know for sure, that China should know about all this, but it probably felt that a major factor was missing, and therefore preferred to wait for another opportunity. This factor is mentioned in the second article. Once the PLA takes Taiwan, how will China govern it? It is a headache if you do not know for certain that everything will run smoothly rather than turn into a bloody mess. China no longer trusts the KMT, whose leaders are discredited and ridiculed. How can China depend on them to maintain order? The emergence of Prof Chang and his army of ardent supporters from the general population provides a clarity that China needs for Unification. What China needs to do is to change its narrative from Wutong to defending China and Taiwan. The final contest for the KMT Chair is between Prof Chang Ya-chung and KMT Party apparatchik Eric Chu Li-luan [朱立倫; pinyin: Zhu Lilun]. The younger incumbent Johnny Chiang Chi-chen [江啟臣; pinyin: Jiang Qichen] is a distant third. The fourth candidate Cho Po-yuan [卓伯源; pinyin: Zhuo Boyuan] is non-existent. Prof Chang and Eric Chu are in a dead heat. No one can predict the outcome of Saturday's vote. Prof Chang's participation and his Unification policy will at a minimum create a historic turnout. The dark horse candidate is already causing much excitement for the KMT, and his carrion call for peace talks with mainland China is eliciting a groundswell of support from outside the party. This exposes the lie that people of Taiwan support only DPP's (Democratic Progressive Party) policy of antagonism against China or KMT's policy of the everlasting status quo of ambiguity. A new and powerful voice says let us negotiate for union and peace for prosperity and a future for our children, and it is resonating on the island. Scenario 1: Prof Chang wins the Chair and proceeds with his Unification plan. I won't go into details here, but his plan is a viable one and receives quite a bit of grassroot support even at this early stage. It may have something to do with Prof Chang's charisma and his ability to win all his debates by logic and eloquent elocution, letting his opponents expose themselves as morons and moral midgets. Assuming the Unification path becomes a KMT policy, it will culminate in the presidential election in 2024 as a contest of KMT's peace with China vs DPP's antagonism leading inevitably to war with China. If KMT's candidate wins, then there will be a peaceful progression towards a negotiated unification. Let me place a caveat right here. It will likely not happen smoothly because the US will not let it happen. When push comes to shove, expect the chaos of Hong Kong to repeat on the streets of Taiwan or worse. Scenario 2: Many obstacles stand in front of Prof Chang even if he wins the KMT Chair. He may have to resign because the party scuttles his Unification plan, his Unification MOU with China may not be passed in KMT, and the KMT presidential candidate may lose out to the DPP candidate in 2024. Then what? Scenario 3: Eric Chu wins the KMT Chair, the comatose establishment of KMT breathes a sigh of relief, and goes back to their sinking ship, hoping the ship will somehow right itself by a miracle. It will not. So all three scenarios say Prof Chang's plan will fail. How will Unification happen? It will happen because China now knows about the latent support for peace in Taiwan with the mainland. The Taiwanese people didn't have a smart and courageous politician to take them to the promised land. But now they have Prof Chang. It is therefore important for China to change its narrative from Wutong to Defend the Homeland. This is a unifying call, and it's not hard to understand that this is also a veiled threat with sugar-coating. China and Prof Chang should talk about Unification regardless of what official status Chang has. Hire Prof Chang as a Peace consultant if necessary. But direct talk means that Prof Chang will understand his potential role as the leader and organizer of an interim government in case the PLA needs to defend Taiwan from traitors and foreigners, most likely within hours of the commencement of the operation and without bloodshed. It will take time for Prof Chang, assuming he agrees, to prepare the infrastructure for such an interim government without violating any laws. The reward to Prof Chang for doing this is the solemn undertaking by the Chinese government to provide a high degree of self-rule for Taiwan and to let the Taiwanese people run their own affairs despite China having effected unilateral unification. The five year period is a reasonable timeline, and by then, China will have surpassed the US in all aspects of wealth production, America will still be dealing with another Covid wave (I wrote an article explaining why), and Xi will be confident of success, establishing his legacy for future generations, so that the Central Committee of the CPC could start working on an orderly succession by bringing the next generation of leaders to the forefront. Beyond that, all is murky and muck, but stay healthy and we will live to witness history.
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The following shares a correspondence I had with a Chinese-Vietnamese-Canadian scholar in the China Writers Group. "Xu Shen's [许慎] Lexicon [说文解字] is not a perfect source for Chinese etymology. It's not the poor man's fault. He didn't have Oracle Bones and archeology to help him with his research. For example, you had explained the word for "philosophy" [哲] at your Confucius-Plato lecture as a hand, an axe, and a mouth. On the surface, that is correct, but [哲] is actually a word with a phonetic component on top and a mouth below as the ideogram. But even that is incorrect. The earliest form of this word is a Bronze character [金文] with several variations. Check this one out. The top part is the phonetic [折], meaning "break," with the optional "eye" to indicate learning from observation. I would like to add that the phonetic may also carry the connotation "to break apart," hence to analyze. The lower ideogram is a "heart" rather than the "mouth" in the modern character. The heart is of course for learning and understanding, and in ancient Chinese culture, equivalent to the "mind." The phonetic [折] is a late derivative from Oracle Bones. It is incorrect to describe it as a hand and an axe. Check out the Oracle Bone character. Those are not hands on the left but a piece of wood cut in half by the axe on the right (the wood is broken, hence the meaning "break"). While the superficial etymology of philosophy [哲] is violent with a hand and an axe, and relates to expatiating with the mouth, the true etymology is based on observation and learning with one's heart and mind. It is closer to the Greek etymology for "philosophy," which means "love of knowledge" or "love of wisdom."
This is not to say the Lexicon is useless, but it should be understood that it is no longer the Bible. It hasn't been for a long time."
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A Story about the Older Generation14/9/2021 The following is an account of how my mother from a Hainanese family living in Saigon during the Second Sino-Japanese War got an education from a well-known school in China, and what happened to that school. The following is what I gathered about my mother's secondary school at Guilin known as Hanmin Middle School 汉民中学. Hanmin is from Hu Hanmin 胡汉民, who was a right wing leader of Kuomintang 国民党 (KMT). The principal and founder of the school Ren Zhongmin 任中敏 was the secretary of Hu Hanmin. He founded the school in 1937 at Nanjing, or Nanking, at that time the capital of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek. He named the school Hanmin to commemorate Hu Hanmin, his old boss, who passed away in 1936 from brain hemorrhage. At the time of Dr Sun Yat-sen's passing in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of the Nationalist army, while the Nationalist party KMT was under the control of a triumvirate consisting of Hu Hanmin on the right, Wang Jingwei 汪精卫 on the fence (he was a hero of the 1911 Revolution but later became a famous quisling by agreeing to act as the leader of the Japanese occupation's puppet government), and Liao Zhongkai 廖仲恺 on the left (husband of famous women's rights activist He Xiangning 何香凝, father of the famous Communist leaders Liao Chengzhi 廖承志 and Liao Mengxing 廖梦醒). Liao Zhongkai was assassinated shortly after the death of Dr Sun. Although the case was never solved, the prime suspect was Hu Hanmin, as he afterwards joined Chiang Kai-shek to purge the communists from the KMT (it is not a well-known fact that under Dr Sun, many communists including Mao and Zhou Enlai became members and executives of the KMT), during which the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were decimated and Mao's wife Yang Kaihui 杨开慧 was executed by firing squad for refusing to renounce the CCP and Mao. At the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Principal Ren moved Hanmin Middle School from Nanjing----shortly before the Fall of Nanking and the infamous massacre by the Japanese army----to Guilin 桂林, the provincial capital of Guangxi 广西 in the south-west of China, where my mother attended the school. She probably went there in 1940, when she was just fourteen years old, by sea from Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City 胡志明市) to Zhanjiang 湛江 (then known as Guangzhou Wan 广州湾), and then by land to Guilin. She went by herself without the approval of her father and was financed by her mother who had to sell some of her jewelry. At the time, the school received funding from Chiang's government and was renamed National Hanmin Middle School 汉民国立中学. It was probably the only middle school in China at the time with national status. My mother returned to Saigon in 1948 for a one year break, granted by the school to all expatriates, most of whom had not seen their family for many years. During her stay in Saigon, my mother witnessed the escape of Tsinghua Professor Wang Zhou 王洲----then known as Wang Anzhou 王安洲----from the colonial police. At the time, the two families being from Wenchang 文昌----hometown of the Soong Sisters----lived in the same house. Wang Zhou was a young communist from a wealthy family. The police came knocking in the middle of the night. He escaped by the night-pot opening----through which people pushed out their excrement into the back alley for the poop collector----to Paris, where he became an expert in nuclear physics. Prof Wang returned to China in the eighties to teach at Tsinghua. My mother lost Prof Wang's phone number and couldn't confirm it but he probably still lives at the campus at the ripe old age of 90. After the one-year break, my mother was supposed to return to Guilin for continuing studies in 1949 but got stuck in Hong Kong during her transit (by sea from Saigon to Hong Kong, and then by land to Guilin) as Chiang's regime collapsed during that year. That's how my siblings and I ended up being born in Hong Kong. My mother and Bliss (my elder daughter) visiting Prof Wang Zhou (with his Russian wife) at Tsinghua in 2003 Prof Ren never left China despite his connections with the Nationalist government. He was much more of a scholar and educator than a politician. In addition to his not insignificant contributions to ancient Chinese literature, Ren was famous for being strict with his students. According to my mother----as it is not recorded elsewhere, but this is probably a true story----he expelled his own son, a handsome young man idolized by the teenage girls at the school, from Hanmin for committing a minor mischief. Then the old man personally carried his son's luggage to attend a lesser boarding school in the area. His son later joined the Nationalist air force and died during the Sino-Japanese War. It's unclear whether he died in training or in combat, but it was a dangerous profession with a high mortality rate in the first place. When the report of the son's death arrived at Hanmin, it was a sad day for Principal Ren and for everyone at the school who knew the young man. After the establishment of the PRC in 1949, Hanmin Middle School became Guilin First Middle School 桂林市第一中学, making it the top rung school of the city if not the entire region. Ren continued educating and became professor of Chinese studies at Sichuan University. He returned to his hometown Yangzhou 扬州 to teach at Yangzhou University during the early eighties. Few people knew that Prof Ren came from the same city and was a fellow student as well as good friends with renowned writer/educator Zhu Ziqing 朱自清, whose famous essay "Shadow of My Father's Back" 背影 we learned as a part of secondary school syllabus in Hong Kong. Prof Ren passed away in 1991 aged 95. He is now fondly remembered by his students and colleagues, and a bronze bust of him was erected in the campus of Yangzhou University in 2007. My mother never knew what happened to her middle school principal and, after I told her the rest of Prof Ren's story, regretted not having visited him before he passed away. Hanmin Middle School was highly influential for my mother's career as a teacher. She did not have her credentials when she started looking for teaching jobs in Hong Kong. When she applied at a private school and hoped that the principal of that school would believe her, it turned out that the principal's son was a fellow student at Hanmin, although several classes lower. The principal knew a lot about Hanmin from his son's letters, and my mother's description of the school checked out. She was hired on the spot, as Hanmin was a sort of ivy league school in those days, famous even outside of mainland China for churning out high quality graduates. Thanks to the principal's unselfish character, he would later sponsor my mother to take the Hong Kong Teacher's Certificate Exam, as she couldn't take it without any credentials. The certificate would allow my mother to teach at government schools at much better salaries and benefits as a government employee. It was a difficult exam and the principal's wife took it ten times over ten years before finally passing. My mother passed it on her first try. The rest is history.
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War on Coronavirus6/9/2021 America has just lost a war in Afghanistan to a small band of goatherders armed with personal weapons. Their excuse is they want to concentrate on their "no live-fire" all-encompassing war against the rising China and their other long war against Covid-19. I do not intend to speculate on the outcome of the US-China conflict, as my unwanted opinion usually raises a lot of heckles. I will however comment on the cunning and incorrigible coronavirus. The following is taken from an email I wrote to a group of friends who have spent much energy discussing the various issues relating to Covid-19.
"New technologies such as mRNA have not been tested for long term adverse effects. Western governments and Western health institutes are saying nothing about this health risk. They're encouraging the people to be guinea pigs with their prevarications and obfuscations. How do we know people years later or their next generation will not develop auto-immune problems? How do we know they will not lose their ability to defend against other common infections? How do we know they will not suffer from a higher rate of heart congestions? How do we know a larger percentage of vaccinated people will not develop dementia at an early age? We don't know any of that. That is also the reason why some countries such as China develop vaccines based on the known and safer technology of the weakened virus, which allows the body to build up defense on its own. On first brush, it appears that this technology is less effective than the all new fancy mRNA, but it is safer. And even safer does not mean ironclad, as biology is not an exact science. "As for effectiveness, vaccines do help the individuals to survive infections. It is a numbers game. If you have less people flooding the hospitals, serious cases are more likely to survive with the proper hospital care. Vaccines have helped to eliminate or reduce many infectious diseases. I remember when I was young a classmate was attacked by polio. He was crippled for life. Polio is now non-existent in most modern societies. I remember every kid used to have measles, some kids died from it. I remember quite a few childhood friends who died very young from some infectious diseases which are preventable with modern medicine. Nowadays, such childhood deaths are very rare. This is not to say health experts do not make mistakes, or they don't care about making money from their profession, or that there are no evil doctors, but that is the problem of capitalism. You will have that as long as you have capitalism corrupting everything it touches by the Big Lie of the almighty printed dollar. Aside from human avarice, people defend the Big Lie because they are rewarded with some degree of freedom from its oppression. People who are not in the elite class do strive for that, and they become the Henchman class, or with less nefariousness, little Eichmanns. The Big Lie survives and oppresses the rest because of this class. "On the other hand, developing an effective vaccine cannot by itself defeat a coronavirus. It has never happened. In fact, no coronavirus has ever been defeated by a vaccine. The reason is that the coronavirus mutates rapidly as it spreads in a population. If only one mutation survives the vaccine, it will spread and multiply as long as there is no measure to stop the spread. That is how I successfully predict every time that there will be another wave. It is impossible that healthcare scientists do not know what is almost common sense. America has refused to implement such stop-the-spread measures because they infringe on people's freedom. The government and their scientists refuse to tell the truth, and it is right that people do not trust them. The truth is very simple. Learn from China. But what is the chance of those who spend their life defending the Big Lie saying that? There is a better chance of finding a snowball in hell, unless it is the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, where it is freezing cold. "Hence with resignation we witness yet another wave in the West. As for the millions who have received mRNA vaccines and act as if life has returned to normal, we watch with trepidation the years and decades down the road, if a large percentage of them would develop health problems. Biology is not an exact science. There will be unlucky ones, some of whom may not even develop any symptoms with Covid-19 in the first place. Tough luck. Nobody told you that you're a guinea pig. "Meanwhile, China has zero cases with extensive and exhaustive testing, mandatory tracing, strict quarantine, lockdown where necessary, applying a safe vaccine, masking where there are crowds especially in an enclosed environment, and making sure nothing returns to normal until there has been zero cases for two to three weeks. Don't forget that the world did not need a vaccine to stop SARS-1, and China stopped SARS-2 within its borders early in 2020 with no vaccines. But all you hear on MSM is how ineffective China's vaccines are. Ignorance is not a sin, but ignorance of one's ignorance can be deadly." |