DEATH, on 04 May 2020 - 01:19 AM, said:
Some people think it’s still the Cold War, or the international brigades in Spain and cant see past it being the fault of 20th century capitalism/nationalism.
Being objective I’d cite these examples.
Portion down duped squaddies in the past to be dummies for chemical warfare testing. Hundreds of serving soldiers were lied too and subjected to chemical ware fare agents to study effects of agents. A crime against the people of the UK. IMO Yet to be satisfactory answered.
3 mile island was covered up for up to 5 weeks to minimise the damage to the U.S.
Windscale was covered up initially in the early 50s, although the full risks of nuclear disasters was under estimated by many, but the few who didn’t thankfully insisted on the filters fitted to the top of the piles and renamed due to the stigma.
Chernobyl needs no comment.
That was then, this is now. Is China really not ready to move from the 20th century to the 21st.?
Are people really trying to defend China by saying all you naughty boys in the west X Y and Z?
Good post, Rob.
It's just not binary, is it. Some sort of 'guilty China v innocent west'. How does the old saying go - power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely? Guess that pretty much sums it up. And we could easily add the names of folk demoted or somehow silenced in both Britain and America to your list. None more so than medics told to keep quiet about PPE shortages or the top civil servant who clearly stated it was a political decision to snub the pan-European PPE procurement project only to then retract. After obviously being threatened.
But I'll happily join any boycott of Chinese goods to force change. Problem is will we be joined by those who've spent years trumpeting them as post Brexit trade partners? Those endorsing their investment in, say, British steel? Those profiting from Chinese business deals? Because I've a sneaking feeling those shouting loudest about Huawei, for example, might fall readily into these brackets.
Then there're the sickening scenes of our friends the Norwegians (I think) herding highly intelligent whales onto a beach before butchering them alive. Where's the anger towards them? Where're the demands that be shut down? Should we tell 'em to stick their Xmas tree up the fjord next December? Or do the same people fetishising fox hunting think the Chinese have a monopoly on barbarity.
Point is it's the height of hypocrisy to pick and choose who we vilify, here. Or to condemn western journo's for pursuing truths the same critics demand of China. It's virtually beyond doubt that Covid started in a disgusting market and was covered up by an equally disgusting regime. However let's not fall into Trump's trap of focussing entirely upon that to divert from both his and our own government's bankruptcies…
EDIT: as if to underline the multiple blame thing there's this:
https://www.telegrap...virus-outbreak/
Yes the Chinese covered-up Covid knowledge - but then so did our government!
This post has been edited by The Earl of Chesterfield: 04 May 2020 - 12:32 PM
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