This may not be totally wrong. This is more than a medical crisis. There is politics involved and what people think about the virus will determine the course of future events:
Its wrong and laughably so because the last thing the govt needs is panic.
What the govt should be doing is co-opting religious leaders to spread its message in these times. As authority figures they will get the message out better.
But that does not seem to be the policy
1. US/Right - they can use this scare to declare China a rogue country and renegotiate trade deals. Right now, most of the generic medicines that US consumes are produced in china. This gives Trump/Nationalists a reason to bring the production back.
2. US/Left - If they can scare the public enough, they can make Trump look incompetent. They are trying hard but not succeeding.
I've been following this and whatever the right said about China was used by the Left against Trump. Word for word.
What goes around comes around
The right was wrong about China and so is the left on Trump.
3. China - They are already trying to Change the narrative. One senior military official went on record saying that the virus originated in the US. Today they have offered a billion masks and test kits to Africa. The longer the west is locked down, the more time China has to consolidate its position in the world.
Going by the
statements of their FO spokesperson there is an attempt to shift the blame. Because if people blame China then they expect China to PAY!
This has been a massive PR disaster for China. Anything from China or looking Chinese is shunned. It's going to take some work and gifts to assuage this from the CCP.
China has managed to turn a corner because of their system. Western countries are going to have a harder time. Europe is complete mess. We should look at entire Europe like China.
4. pharmaceutical companies - The more scared you are, the more profits they make when the vaccine/cure comes out.
By the time they come out with something the virus will have run its course. Any viable vaccine is a year to two away. The reason is the acceptance testing. Making the drug is one thing, making it so it does not cause more problems than its trying to solve is the hard part. There is a dengue vaccine out but the side effects are so severe they had to withdraw it.
Does not mean they should not try. We're yet to find out if there will be a second wave and it could be worse than the first.
India is already in the race having become the 5th country to sequence the genome.
5. Media - They love a crisis. They more scared you are, the more Media stands to gain.
Been following those that track this crisis and people living through it. Not so much the media.
More facts. Scary facts. Campbells
channel is pretty good.
The other one i've been listening to Bannon's
War room.
6. They super rich - With people scared, it is easier to offer 'solutions' (which almost always involve structural changes that take power and choice away from common people). They do not need most of us anyway. With automation taking over low end jobs, the global machine needs fewer cogs. Another round of depopulation wouldn't hurt.
American wingnut territory. The comments section for some of these videos are 95% trolls, quacks & idiots. Why would they want depopulation. More supply in the workforce means cheaper rates. Automation has taken over lower end jobs for a while now. The fear is it can do higher end. This is i do not think will be so easy and is hyped.
Why i see people advocating for a population control bill in this country is a mystery. The more young the longer this country can grow. It seems like a throwback to the 70s with all these born again Malthusians