I'm not upset at this. The last point is made very well. We've just woken up to the fact that our "leaders" have made us dependent on a hostile power. We should be pissed.
But he's overstating the threat, in my view. The numbers coming out of Italy now aren't even that bad. 7900 diagnosed cases over three weeks in a population of 60 million. With, I guess, 460 deaths, if Italy's wonky reporting on deaths is to be believed. That was after only a very soft quarantine in Northern Italy.
I think everyone got freaked the fuck out by the glimpses of absolute mayhem in China. Well. Hello. China. Maybe that's what they wanted us to see.
I'm not upset at this. The last point is made very well. We've just woken up to the fact that our "leaders" have made us dependent on a hostile power. We should be pissed.
But he's overstating the threat, in my view. The numbers coming out of Italy now aren't even that bad. 7900 diagnosed cases over three weeks in a population of 60 million. With, I guess, 460 deaths, if Italy's wonky reporting on deaths is to be believed. That was after only a very soft quarantine in Northern Italy.
I think everyone got freaked the fuck out by the glimpses of absolute mayhem in China. Well. Hello. China. Maybe that's what they wanted us to see.