Posted on 02/27/2020 6:42:57 AM PST by grimalkin
Proximity is all. If they can't get to you, they can't get you. Most of us locate our fears on the far horizon like the old maps where the known world dribbles away and the cartographer scrawls "Here be dragons". Sometimes, as Lincoln learned, the problem's right there standing next to you.
In a globalized economy, the anti-glob mob and the eco-warriors want us to worry about rapacious First World capitalism imposing its ways on bucolic, pastoral, primitive Third World backwaters. But globalization cuts both ways, and the peculiarities of the backwaters can leap instantly to the metropolis - just because someone got on a plane. The African mosquito who hitched a ride on a US-bound flight and all by himself introduced West Nile virus to North America is merely the high-altitude heir to those fleabitten rats on the Italian ships homebound from the Orient who brought the Black Death to Europe in the 1340s. That too was a globalization quid pro quo: the Continent's success in opening up trade with the East also opened it up to disease from the East.
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Spot on! All salient points...I have no doubts the Harvard commie researcher and Obama/Soros/Bloomberg/Rothchildeans are responsible. Crash the market, kill off a few Chinese, no worries.
Oh, but the Debra Niwa (Lame Cherry idiot) thinks Trump is doing this.
The "edge of the map" is an obsolete concept in the age of open borders - which is why I regret that the President has not pushed back against Democrat demands that the relatively minuscule "wall-funding" be re-allocated to the coronavirus budget. Rebuilding the demolished national border is not just about stemming the tide of unskilled mass migrants no developed nation needs in an age of increasing automation, but also about being able at least to mitigate the effects of new, mysterious viruses that can leap from one totalitarian despotism (China) to afflict instantly the ministers and parliamentarians of another totalitarian despotism (Iran). Trade policy, the wall and global pandemics are all related, and tying them together in a big Trump Doctrine speech wouldn't go amiss.Many here on FR have discussed this three-way interdependency over the past one or two months and it's been recognized here for many years. Lots of re-emergent diseases have entered the U.S. over the porous southern border. Closing the border is an important step toward securing the health of the nation. Without the impoverished caseload pouring over the southern border, our health care costs would go down...which is of paramount importance to the Libs.
Germ breakouts will happen. But the tech has caught up with the bugs. No worries
A stupid co-worker of mine was complaining about how Trump was more concerned with the wall than he was with COVID-19.
These people can't think beyond their TDS nose.
Dang it!
It’s Evolution!!
Adapt or DIE!!!
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