China sneezed and the whole world got The Cold.
Covid-19, the flu on steroids, caused by a pathogen that isn’t even technically alive so minuscule it is carried through the air in tiny droplet projectiles when the infected sneeze, cough, or even just talk.
The horrific scenes of brutality out of Wuhan, China when it was just the beginnings of an epidemic were so disturbing I could not put my iPad down at night checking the latest videos and wondering if the same could happen in other countries given the same circumstances. Women jumping out of windows, their building entrance having been welded shut by authorities. CCTV video of a healthy man walking casually then just dropping dead in one instant. Another of a lady security guard sitting at her post surfing the net on her laptop when she suddenly faints, falls to the ground as if she was having an epileptic seizure but the tremors are short lived and her body suddenly goes stiff.
Mobile phone video. One of a woman being forced out of her car, suspected of having the virus to be taken away to quarantine, 4 cops wrestle her out with such force they accidentally snap her neck and she falls lifeless to the ground. They nonchalantly pick her up and place her into a van. Residents of a unit forcefully extracted for quarantine. On old man not wearing a mask being beaten up by his neighbor. A woman carrying a toddler is wrestled by police and she loses hold of her toddler and her child is sickeningly jettisoned onto the concrete.
Wake up my Chinese friends, 1.4 billion strong against a leadership you don’t even get to choose. Assert your freedom, let Taiwan be the example. Lend your brothers in Hong Kong a helping hand to fight the tyranny of a government that has no regard for you.
The lack of transparency, blatant disregard for truth, and the utter lack of human decency is appalling and downright abhorrent.
That attitude has now precipitated in a pandemic and economic turmoil the effects of which will be felt for decades to come.
