He was talking about China and their "ideology" of not letting their people die. After they lifted the lockdowns, they lost a million? 2 million? in 6 months.
The core problem here is that we haven't had these epidemics in 100 years, when we used to have them every 10-20 years. We had a few close calls. Bird flu never "took off". SARS-1 was suppressed amazingly well; the 2002 coronavirus that kills 80% of people that get it. I think 800 people died, mostly in Hong Kong and an old folk's home in Toronto.
We had this interregnum because (everybody says) modern medicine and sewage systems, and (I think) because we destroyed so much migratory bird habitat. In the old days we had fatal epidemics almost continuously in big cities: farmers starved, moved to the big city, died in slums, time to recruit more farmers.
A big chuckle reading the comments...you bring out the best in sarcasm. I'm assuming you're gathering anecdotes to write a book that will sell millions...you're the best Rudy.
He needs to go and (1) live on the streets in a blue city for a month (2) spend a week walking through the Darien Gap (3) spend a week riding fence on a cattle ranch in Montana in the dead of winter. (In the evenings the rancher will explain to why he will be out of business within 5 years)
Then he can redo the interview.
If he’s still alive.
Appreciate the effort at the positive news though. Merry Christmas.
He assumes the USA will continue out consuming everybody else, and that the goods will come from some other place than China. I'm a doubter to the 1st part.
I love the top picture that you used the "420 center of hope, I drive past that place every morning taking my wife to work, recognized it right away.
I've had that picture forever, hope.jpg. So when I looked for a "hope" pic, there it was!
That's funny it's located in one of the worst parts of Calgary as well.
Thanks for your work , I appreciate reading all your posts.
Thank you!
Today, I learned that not letting one's citizens die like dogs is "ideology".
I don't think people in, say, Florida, "died like dogs."
He was talking about China and their "ideology" of not letting their people die. After they lifted the lockdowns, they lost a million? 2 million? in 6 months.
The core problem here is that we haven't had these epidemics in 100 years, when we used to have them every 10-20 years. We had a few close calls. Bird flu never "took off". SARS-1 was suppressed amazingly well; the 2002 coronavirus that kills 80% of people that get it. I think 800 people died, mostly in Hong Kong and an old folk's home in Toronto.
We had this interregnum because (everybody says) modern medicine and sewage systems, and (I think) because we destroyed so much migratory bird habitat. In the old days we had fatal epidemics almost continuously in big cities: farmers starved, moved to the big city, died in slums, time to recruit more farmers.
A big chuckle reading the comments...you bring out the best in sarcasm. I'm assuming you're gathering anecdotes to write a book that will sell millions...you're the best Rudy.
Cheers!
He needs to go and (1) live on the streets in a blue city for a month (2) spend a week walking through the Darien Gap (3) spend a week riding fence on a cattle ranch in Montana in the dead of winter. (In the evenings the rancher will explain to why he will be out of business within 5 years)
Then he can redo the interview.
If he’s still alive.
Appreciate the effort at the positive news though. Merry Christmas.
He assumes the USA will continue out consuming everybody else, and that the goods will come from some other place than China. I'm a doubter to the 1st part.
I wonder how many more millions around the world would have to suffer to give you that !
"I can be critical of every - there's a lot of things that we do wrong, like there's a lot of problems..."
I've been very vocal about ending our awful neo-con foreign policy for decades, but I am not dictator yet.
Good to read something positive. I am all for George WashingtonsFarewell Address
There was this one time fifteen thousand years ago...