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originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: 727Sky
Antivirals aren't a cure.
They theoretically slow down the replication cycle and give your immune system more time to fight it off.
All those terrible side effects make it look like a poison though. So I'd never take it.
The United States and other nations must hold China accountable not because of anger—though that sentiment is entirely justified—nor a desire for retribution. The world must make China pay in order to create incentives that will force it to improve its behavior. That may well demand measures that will force China to experience the full costs of its recklessness.
The coronavirus pandemic represents the deadliest form so far of Beijing’s externalization of its economic and political system. China allows primitive “wet markets” to remain open for business, even though the close proximity of exotic wildlife in food markets encourages deadly viruses to jump from animals to humans. It attempts to operate First World virology and disease research laboratories, even though it lacks the skill and care necessary to run them safely. According to reports in the Washington Post, U.S. diplomatic officials who toured the Wuhan virology and CDC facilities left deeply concerned that the staff could not operate the labs safely.
nstead, China used its influence within the World Health Organization to obscure the realities of the disease – and even to discriminate, on a public health matter of the utmost human importance, against Taiwan. China thus showed, very starkly, that it puts its political and economic agenda before any consideration of our common humanity.
originally posted by: Spider879
a reply to: Advantage
The above mentioned reparations or accountability maybe justified, however China was unlikely to respond positively before then, but things heating up around the Spratly Islands make any such move by China untenable it simply won't wash, expect them to double down.
Europeans are upset, Americans are upset so are the Australians and the Philippines , they even managed to lose Africa by their ham fisted treatment of much of their expats in Quanzhou.
originally posted by: FlyingSquirrel
a reply to: muzzleflash
If you were deathly ill from a virus, you'd stay home and eat honey?
originally posted by: FlyingSquirrel
a reply to: muzzleflash
If you were deathly ill from a virus, you'd stay home and eat honey?