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The US governments management of the coronavirus outbreak hasnt been great, to say the least.
Its president roundly denounces scientific facts. Americans are paying extortionate amounts of money for testing and quarantine. And there is concern over how transparent officials are in their communications to the public about the disease. Watching from afar, many in China are reacting to these developments with a mix of shock and pleasure.
They find it hard to believe that the worlds top superpower might be bungling its response to the virus, even after having had weeks to prepare for its possible arrival. Chinese officials discovered the first known case of Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, in Wuhan, China in early January. The first case discovered in the US came weeks later, on Jan. 20, in Washington. The outbreak has only intensified across the country since then, spreading even more rapidly in recent days.
On Weibo, the Chinese social media network, users have read posts under the hashtag #coronavirus conditions in the US# more than 500 million times. In comments, many users expressed surprise that a country that holds itself up as the worlds foremost democracy would struggle to manage an epidemic like this, and that its health care system isnt equipped to treat the growing number of cases.
https://qz.com/1813181/china-is-taking-pleasure-in-us-mishandling-of-coronavirus/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo
But we have a stable genius in charge.
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(15,751 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)how much pleasure they take in Americans not going out to buy cheap plastic crap made in China for a few months. And maybe we'll find that we really don't need that much of it.
Here's hoping that the "captains of industry" (as they were called in my 1975 accounting class) of the Fortune 500 realize that they made a big mistake trying to outsource so very many necessary things to pollution-heavy Chinese factories.