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Obviously, we can't stick with this plan forever.  It has to evolve at some point.  People will disagree about when that point is reached.

I think personally we are near a point HERE where we can reopen some business operations with precautions.  We should still practice distancing and hand washing and general hygiene practices when going out.  A lot of restaurants near me have outside seating and this is the time of year for that.  Put the tables further apart and let's dine al fresco again.  If anyone personally feels vulnerable or suspicious, they of course can continue to stay indoors.

Move the goalposts much?  The idea was to flatten the curve, to prevent our hospital system from being overrun.  By all reasonable accounts, that has been accomplished.  Beyond that the plan was to keep people working and do the least damage to the economic conditions that people have, to feed their families.  That is not working.

not everyone has a nannie and TWO SUB-ZERO fridges full of gourmet ice cream (thanks Gutfield).

Fixed.

biggest paper in Germany going in hard at Xi Jinping and China over the virus and their cover-up.

https://www.jpost.com/international/germanys-largest-paper-to-chinas-president-youre-endangering-the-world-625074

I've been seeing the same kind of stuff from UK, France, Japan, Italy, Australia media/politicians. I really think these guys cooked their own goose. China couldn't have flubbed this any worse. This will be their downfall. It's about damn time the US and it's allies woke up to the China problem. Just terrible that it took something like this to wake people up.

Maybe China was just optimistic

That’s good.  The fact that the test of the world is on this obvious human tragedy China caused, eliminates the media creed here in the USA to not talk about anything that places blame where it really belongs.

the corporate puppets helped China become the power it is today.

In 1990, China's economy was on par with the Netherlands. In 1999 before they joined the WTO, it was not even a trillion dollar economy. Today it's the second largest economy in the entire world and is projected to surpass the US economy by 2040.

China has been aggressively trying to get it's currency used as a world reserve currency for the last 8-10 years. China's ultimate stated goal is to replace the US dollar as the worlds currency. China in 2018 just started trading oil in yuan. This was huge news that no one talks about. The petro-yuan was announced in 2017, but went into affect in 2018. It's stated goal is to replace the US dollar with the yuan as the dominant currency in which oil is traded.

China has been aggressively trying to disrupt and re-route world trade routes with it's belt and road initiative in order to dominate global trade. The US Navy dominates the worlds' oceans and thereby controls most major shipping lanes. China's belt and road initiative aims to spend trillions of dollars to build new infrastructure in countries all over the world to bypass those shipping lanes and disrupt world trade.

China has been aggressively trying to stop being just a factory mill for from Western companies- and move heavily to start to manufacturing high-value goods from Chinese state-backed companies in high-tech/high-value fields like semi-conductors, aerospace, pharmaceuticals with it's Made In China 2025 initiative. Their plan is for 70% of all high-tech/high-value that is manufactured in China to be manufactured by Chinese state-backed entities- by the year 2025. And where the hell did these bastards get any of that tech to manufacture those kind of items in high-tech/high-value fields? From US! They either stole it from us, or our very stupid companies gave them tech/trade secrets willingly via forced technology transfers for access to the Chinese market.

If the US doesn't fight those bastards tooth and nail right now, and beat them back, I am afraid of what this country will look like in the future for the younger generation.

the corporate puppets helped China become the power it is today.

In 1990, China's economy was on par with the Netherlands. In 1999 before they joined the WTO, it was not even a trillion dollar economy. Today it's the second largest economy in the entire world and is projected to surpass the US economy by 2040.

China has been aggressively trying to get it's currency used as a world reserve currency for the last 8-10 years. China's ultimate stated goal is to replace the US dollar as the worlds currency. China in 2018 just started trading oil in yuan. This was huge news that no one talks about. The petro-yuan was announced in 2017, but went into affect in 2018. It's stated goal is to replace the US dollar with the yuan as the dominant currency in which oil is traded.

China has been aggressively trying to disrupt and re-route world trade routes with it's belt and road initiative in order to dominate global trade. The US Navy dominates the worlds' oceans and thereby controls most major shipping lanes. China's belt and road initiative aims to spend trillions of dollars to build new infrastructure in countries all over the world to bypass those shipping lanes and disrupt world trade.

China has been aggressively trying to stop being just a factory mill for from Western companies- and move heavily to start to manufacturing high-value goods from Chinese state-backed companies in high-tech/high-value fields like semi-conductors, aerospace, pharmaceuticals with it's Made In China 2025 initiative. Their plan is for 70% of all high-tech/high-value that is manufactured in China to be manufactured by Chinese state-backed entities- by the year 2025. And where the hell did these bastards get any of that tech to manufacture those kind of items in high-tech/high-value fields? From US! They either stole it from us, or our very stupid companies gave them tech/trade secrets willingly via forced technology transfers for access to the Chinese market.

If the US doesn't fight those bastards tooth and nail right now, and beat them back, I am afraid of what this country will look like in the future for the younger generation.

People will call you an extremist for such language.  But/ you are right!

Maybe China was just optimistic

Yeah...OR...maybe they disappeared/murdered whistleblowers, scrubbed the internet, censored WeChat, reprimanded officials, destroyed evidence, and sat on key info instead of sharing it with the world.