The Bot Shared ‘Round the World

By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 29/03/2020

Now that the Wuhan virus has hit every country in the world and made them all panic, it is becoming obvious that if we keep our countries in an economic lockdown, another Great Depression could take many more lives than the virus has the potential to do.

We are hearing our leaders say to us that we all need to put ourselves on a “war-footing.” 

A century ago, The Great War ended. Four out of the five most powerful empires of our globe, the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, German and Ottoman empires fell. Only the British Empire was left standing and able to thrive. In the dramatic aftermath, world maps were redrawn as entire nations split apart, or were renamed, or disappeared completely. Then came the lethal Spanish Flu pandemic, later followed by the Great Depression. Everyone who wasn’t broken by these events, and even those who were, went broke. 

The premium that Western culture places on the value of human life is admirable and an essential feature of our modern civilisation, but the fact that our economies are now closed for business because of a contagious flu, which 98% of people will survive if they contract, seems an insane calculation. 

Proactively and with great care, we can test and trace known cases, isolate the sick and the vulnerable, sensibly observe physical distancing and excellent hygiene, all while we await a new vaccine, which we are told is on the way. But killing off our economic flourishing for ourselves and our progeny is a sure way to homogenise poverty and unemployment – and we know that leads to depression, despair, hunger, illness and death en masse. 

A country such as ours here in New Zealand, small and geographically isolated, but heavily dependent on China as our largest trading partner makes our economic climate even more dire, especially with a Woman’s Weekly prime minister whose mechanical facial expression is always set to one of begging the public to believe in her sincerest perception management skills.
 
Are we going to continue to assist paving the way for China’s new Silk Road – their Belt and Road Initiative – when their ruling Communist Party knowingly sent forth a plague down its pathways while persecuting the medical whistleblowers who hollered out a loud warning?  

China does not place the same premium on the value of human life as we do in Western democracies – communists never do! Within their political philosophy, human life serves the State and not the other way around. Within its large population, 1.4 billion souls, China executes more citizens than all other countries in the world who use the death penalty, and it currently holds some one million Uighur Muslims in re-education camps inside its territory.
 
China, against World Trade Organisation rules, also manipulated the price of vital prescription medicines and vitamins, creating for itself a monopoly – under a globalist, free-market guise – while the world did nothing, until Trump became president. On his podcast of March 18th, Leighton Smith recently interviewed Rosemary Gibson, who co-wrote a book titled, China RX – Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, which explains the story of how the United States became dependent on China for its vital medicines, including – unbelievably – penicillin.
 
“Western companies are not competing with Chinese companies, they’re competing with the Chinese government which is subsidising their domestic firms,”  said Gibson. 
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And now while China watches the Western world embrace full-scale Cancel-Everything-Culture in the wake of the Wuhan virus, in a recent article in its state run media outlet Xinhua, the editorial threatened to withhold life-saving drugs to the world and plunge the U.S. into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.”

After our virus lockdown is over, is the New Zealand government really going to keep seeking a reciprocal trade relationship with a partner this dangerous and uncivilised?

Right now, people are deeply worried about the actual virus, which is understandable, but the larger horror is watching our economies be destroyed in slow motion and whole nations being forced to go on government welfare.
 
Those who keep saying, “Don’t worry, it’s only temporary, things will be back to normal in a month or two,” remind me of the bright-eyed, optimistic naiveté that our young lads possessed when they went off to fight in both our World Wars while saying, “Don’t worry Mum, we’ll all be home by Christmas.”

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