Your right. They would lose a cold war and a hot one too. But now they see how easy it was to disrupt our economy and sow division with the virus. Now all they have to do is drop another virus bomb on us and kick back and watch the show. Our biggest threat are the Chicom sympathizers and stooges within our borders. They need to be exposed and ostracized.
And fast.
If another thing like this virus happens again and it is traced back to China, it should be considered an act of war
Uh, no. All they have done is force us to do a dry run of our systems and fix what was lacking, which we are, and will. The low mortality rate of the COVID is what convinces me that this was not a deliberate release, but accidental. If it "was" deliberate, it was really, really ineptly done.
I worked as a consultant with LLNL on development of automated biowarfare detection instrumentation to run 24/7 and could identify multiple agents with each analysis (ten years ago). I'm sure the tech is a lot better now, and as a result of this, will likely be upgraded several notches.
And THE WORST thing that the individual Americans can do to China is simply....DON'T BUY THEIR PRODUCTS. Buy American, or Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, Thai, Viet, Indian....anything but Chinese.