31 December 2019 the Wuhan 'novel coronavirus' was first officially announced - namely, that there were pneumonia-like symptoms being found in an unusually-large number of individuals seeking medical attention.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani's most recent Fox interview pointed to several major issues he raised with respect to densely-populated American cities like San Francisco - and he used the word 'plague.'
At some point we all have to - at least those of us who consider ourselves reasonably intelligent - face that we are living in a kind of a failing civilization, and that these really are crisis times with a great amount of risk entailed for those living within the reach of human systems and social structures as they obtain presently. Sure lot's of things work on some levels; many things are also catastrophically broken, though.
I think it's late enough in the day to say that I had been resisting all of last year to actually say that I thought Xi Jinping was a candidate for something that it might not be legal for me to say what!
Anyway - six ways from Sunday...
This week Taiwanese F-16's intercepted Communist China H-6 bombers close to the Taiwan airspace border - and this can only be seen as an aggressive statement to Taiwan that Xi believes they have had some hand to play in Beijing's current problems, and also to let Taiwan know that he is in fact warning them to pull back from whatever it is he suspects they are still doing.
Or else what, but?
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You and I have other problems to think about - like how we are personally and privately going to cope with the fact that for the most part, politicians and whole stratas of government in the West over the last several decades, are not skilled managers at all, but simply skilled at pulling the wool over people's eyes and gaining power which they then squander and exploit for their own individual benefit; there is no other way to look at it. If the risk of a modern day 'plague' exists in some theoretically advanced city, each day that the risk remains evident - is an unequivocal statement of proof that what was just said is so.
It wouldn't be the first time that a plague has decided the outcome of a struggle between two rival powers, eh?
ReplyDelete"The plague dealt massive damage to Athens two years into the Peloponnesian War, from which it never recovered. Their political strength had weakened and morale among their armies as well as the citizens had fallen significantly. Athens would then go on to be defeated by Sparta and fall from being a major superpower in Ancient Greece."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
Students of history will recognize it... Others will not.
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