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Hehe. Yes. Satire. But truth may often be found just beneath the surface.
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I know but itâs funny âŚ
Almost as funny. But as has been mentioned a grain of truth is behind the satire
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What was that about next-quarter results?
Modly still fighting for whatâs right.
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I presume you have some inside information on this, or some RELIABLE source you can quote?
Or is it just more of your fake news from unreliable and untraceable sources?? (I heard from a friend that know somebody that said so)
Who needs inside information, their subterfuges are public knowledge. China terminates dissidents with extreme prejudice and doctors who tell the truth magically disappear. It is the worldâs leader in genocide and animal abuse. It is an incubator of pestilence, purveyor of computer chips with hidden back doors, defective aircraft parts, counterfeit medicine, tainted baby food and pet food containing rat poison.
They rip off intellectual property, bully their neighboring countries in the South China sea and are guilty of countless other sins against humanity.
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But they make a mean General Tsaoâs chicken. So thereâs that.
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Not to mention those little black cloth slippers. Theyâre adorable.
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A post was split to a new topic: How are the supermarkets holding out where people live?
True, they are like an eastern hemisphere version of the USA minus the tainted baby and pet food, maybe. They do produce over 80% of the ingredients in medicine brought into the USA. It is nice that US firms gave that job to them as it employs more workers in China that might otherwise be very poor. 
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Interesting statistic in the USS ROOSEVELT coronavirus test data. Up to half of infected people could be asymptomatic.
Of the 416 sailors who tested positive for coronavirus, 229 were asymptomatic. Thatâs 55%. Granted that demographic was young, fit with few preexisting conditions - not a good representative sample of our population. They did test and survey every individual in a fair sized population. Thereâs no telling if the asymptomatic would later develop symptoms.
That information came from here:
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The milk and pet food contained melamine, not rat poison. It shows up as protein in a particular test used to measure protein content. I think that as a country they learned from those two episodes. The pet food may have come mostly here, but their own babies were drinking the milk.
Similarly, I havenât heard of a lead paint problem on toys for quite a while now.
I rest my case.
My point is theyâre learning that theyâre learning how to do the industrial thing. Fifteen years ago cheap machine tools/accessories from there were mostly awful but extremely cheap. Now India has moved from always awful to mixed, and China is mostly reasonable quality with some very good. That didnât happen by accident.
I hope NATO launches an investigation into this when things are back to normal. China needs a good bitch slap.
When we start comparing the spread and containment of COVID19 in the USA versus China, or any other countries, and start invoking conspiracy theories, always consider New Zealand.
New Zealand stopped COVID19 in its tracks, with more effectiveness and less drama than any other nation. No vaccinations. No concentration camps. Just an able national leader, an intelligent, determined public, and a strategy that said, "Screw containment, weâre just going to wipe the damn virus outâ
Itâs simply not possible to design and test a vaccine in such a short period. I believe itâs a year minimum.
An antiviral could be available more quickly but still a matter of months.
Iâm not an advocate but if you follow the conspiracy conspiracy train of thought, the answer would be that they would have had to have an effective vaccine prior to releasing the virus. I canât believe Iâm even going there.
Who knows how long China managed to keep a lid on this, I dont trust a damn shit from the government of China.