I’d have to go contrarian on that. First remember that 50% of their workforce are paper-pushers, 90% now working from home by order of CCP. That leaves factories. What did China do to Gilead? stole their IP and started the presses on vaccine manufacturing. And they will do the same with any other vaccine we offer. China’s going to protect the Party uppity-ups, and then factory by factory by priority.
Their current chaos will cause some hickups, sure. But the citizens think the party is their parent and if their parent tells them you will work 19 hours a day, they will do it for fear of being labeled a traitor to the party. Just like the nurses in Wuhan. China also has millions of slave laborers in reserve. Cruel but true. China knows the more time they take, the more business they’ll lose. They’ll move entire town populations if they have to = because they can.
So, I don’t foresee dark ages and gloomy times for the USA as long as we don’t get seeded with this virus. China’s going to need food and lots of it with that swine fever and bird flu thing they got going on. Great for our farmers. And I’d guess we’ll quick-fund startups focusing on supply-interruption essentials we just realized we can’t live without. Our biggest fight will be with envirowackos. This same thing is being discussed by the EU also.
Don’t worry. Trump will still be considered a quick thinker and fast on his feet to act to protect America’s citizens from any threat. Any of these other clowns would still be conferencing and waiting for a return call from the CCP and our people would still be stranded there. Trump got planes in and he got planes out and set border restrictions. And now he’s got teams working on logistics. We’re lucky to have him. And if the other politicians were honest, they’d admit that right about now, too, don’t you think?.
Of course we’re lucky to have him. As I said, he’s already done more sooner than another president would have.
But we are still allowing flights to the US from China and I think it is unlikely that it doesn’t gather strength here in the US. There is likely already more vulnerability here than we have announced.
The Gilead product isn’t a vaccine, it’s a drug. Like ‘Tamiflu’ or ‘Ribavirin’.