China Beat Covid, Which Is Beating America

 IN THE UNITED STATES, the epidemic is out of control, worse, than ever,. It will get much worse, as winter approaches. The economy is in ruins, with millions of people out of work and a staggering ten percent of the American people experiencing food shortage. In china, where the Covid 10 epidemic originated, there is no epidemic, the virus has been eliminated, and the Chinese economy has completely recovered from the recession it experienced due to its being totally shut down early in the epidemic, which starved the virus to death, it having nowhere to spread. Actually, not only has the Chinese economy fully recovered from the recession from the complete month long shut down, it is stronger than ever, with a robust growth rate, just like it was before Covid 19 arrived in a Chinese fish market in December. Its like there never was a problem in China. Meanwhile, in the U.S,Trump and his right wing gang, dishonest as always, will undoubtedly continue to blame China for America's disastrous deadly epidemic. Trump and his supporters should blame themselves. Once Covid 19 started to spread in the United States, china no longer had anything to do with it, and the American government government and people had everything to do with it. Chin has the advantage of an authoritarian central government possessing the coercive power of the state. Its social and economic shutdown last spring was decisive and effective. nobody protested, complained about it, or refused to cooperate, as many did in America. When China reopened, it reopened with a bang, hit the ground running,fired up its factories, got back to work, and got back to immediate economic health and prosperity, virus free, no chance of a second wave. Say what you want about the wonderful american freedom and liberty, there is something to be said for coercive, authoritarian state power when it comes to getting something done right. A childhood friend of mine, who later spent time in prison and evidently learned a great deal, recently said that in America we have so much freedom that  we'r going  to freedom ourselves to death. I wish I had said it. Never have I heard a truer statement. leadership in the Unite states during the epidemic has been haphazard, disjointed chaotic, and weak, and the American people, in particular that part of the American people which adores the current leadership, has blatantly, wantonly, and criminally disregarded the virus, believing it to be  a hoax, echoing the president's attitude towards it. If only President Trump and his gangster mob of supporters had taken the epidemic seriously, would take it seriously now, would stop spreading it wildly across the country, would stop behaving like reckless idiots. Maybe we could still save a few hundred thousand lives.