This Presidential presser is a big raspberry at China. He’s got all the movers and shakers out today, a garden full of free press, with transparency for all.
Welded doors, beatings, stormtrooping, CCP-one-upmanship political squabbling between (province equivalent) states at a nil. Citizen intimidation and blockading, throwing netizens into jail or worse, are all the stuff of totalitarian third world nations with glitter who’ve reduced their population to over-surveilled numbers on a shirt (see the china police ‘name tags’). Slaves punished, public and peer shaming encouraged and cheered on by the state towards those speaking against the state with the award of social credit, even against those sharing life-saving information.
Maoist brutalism and Marxist barbarism that just isn’t necessary in the free world where people are treated with dignity and independence of self. Even if they do act stupid sometimes. Let that sink in with the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans and the Russians - and the rest of the world.
Chen Quishi is still missing
Fang Bin is still missing
Many state governors, who have emergency powers rivaling Xi in China, will being to use those powers.
At least it will be used sparingly and transparently in the US.
But it will be used. Of necessity.
The President was asked what he thought of what some Chinese officials were saying, that America was responsible for releasing the virus and he said, “They know where it came from. We all know where it came from.”
So let’s do it our way, with a concern for others.
I have a T-shirt that says “Is it too late to be good?” Someone gave it to me before Christmas. Maybe now is the time to wear it.