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Originally Posted by jyl
Right? Incredible resource and density pressures. China is not self sufficient in food, energy, commodities. https://chinapower.csis.org/china-food-security/ https://chinapower.csis.org/energy-footprint/ 30 million Chinese starved to death in the 1959-61 famines. That's within living memory of the CCP leadership. Maybe helps explain, if not justify, their aggressiveness about shipping lanes, the South China Sea, and trying to buy up resources around the world.
China started vaccinations with high-risk persons, rather than starting with the general elderly population. That kind of makes sense, since it was intensely locking down cities so grandpa/ma were in theory safe in their homes, the exposed people were healthcare, essential workers, etc. In March 2021 they started rolling out vaccinations to the elderly. |
It helps to know what the virus is to develop a strategy to fight it. China knew what it was from the get-go and acted how best they thought it should.
We and the rest of the world OTOH, had no idea we were assaulted by a manufactured bio-weapon directly from a lab in Wuhan or even when it occurred. We were guessing and those guesses were squelched by not only China itself but also by the do-gooders with superior sensibilities and others in the science community who facilitated the creation of the weapon(s).