Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2020, 11:56:31 PM

Okay so, pretty much 90% of the world is in lockdown. China, the main source of the virus, isn't on lockdown. How did China manage to withstand the virus out of nowhere, while it was a goddamn plaguefuck of a place for ~3 to 4 months?

China has lied about their numbers and is still lying, way more people actually died. And they didn't even stop their epidemic yet, there were reports about the second wave recently.

Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2020, 11:56:31 PM

Also, countries are severely mad at China, for lying about the virus. Apparently, there is new evidence in light stating the virus originated from the Wuhan Lab, and then it spread through their wet markets, whose existence is being denied by china. China claims there is no such thing as a wet market, while there is a shitload of evidence proving otherwise. To add to this, the US government has officially sued China for the spread of the virus, and for lying about all crucial information about the virus.

All these ideas that the virus was created in a lab are just conspiracy theories, dozens of researchers independently claim that it comes from wild animals, there's zero evidence that it is artificial. It indeed came from wet markets, because that's were they sell freshly butchered wild animals.

Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2020, 11:56:31 PM

Next, I am still shocked on why some countries/states are easing out on the lockdown while the number of cases has been on the rise. The state of Texas is apparently removing their lockdown effective next week. Why, WHY, the number of cases will only rise and become much worse, just like in 1918. I understand that people need to work for an economy to survive, but thus far the precautionary measures taken have been outright awful.

It's reasonable to slowly relax the lockdown if your place is already past the peak new cases, which is happening in many European countries, but is probably not the case with Texas.

Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2020, 11:56:31 PM

And my oh my, coming out of this pandemic, I don't even know where to begin with. From the looks of it, a lot of countries are gonna shit on chinese markets and ask them to go fuck themselves. This could be a chance for something different to happen, as in inflated countries like Zimbabwe, Venezuela could come out on top as competitors for chinese markets, given enough capital. The recession is going to be tough, the biggest one human kind could have ever possibly imagined, and while US could get away with printing money from thin air, other countries won't. I am hating every single moment of this, thinking about this, and that we have to live through this.

If you look at human history, countries almost never face any sort of consequences for their screw-ups, and the bigger the screw-up the lower the chance of it, especially if we are talking about a big player like China. To me this is the saddest part of this who story, China knows well what needs to be done to prevent these pandemics in the future, and they won't do it, because there's no consequences for causing hundreds of thousands of deaths globally.