We left our society open to this danger by trucking and trading with the most dangerous dictatorship on the planet and swallowing hook line and sinker the notion we had no choice.
I was paying attention to the danger China represents years and years ago and I strongly suspect people like kimmy and you would complain bitterly about the measures I'd have taken to protect us from that threat. Like no truck nor trade with them. Zero. Until such time as China cleans up its act.
Look, it's really simply what happened here. A politician in China by the name of Xi Jinping who was afraid of criticism and had the capacity to act according to his interests did just that and people died. Then he went about casting blame on others. Pretty much the same thing happened here where politicians with their own interests guiding them them left us unprepared.
Our response to this in Canada has been very encompassing and I'm grateful for it and I hope we keep it up. It'll be interesting to see if we can keep it up well beyond this by taking some very serious action against China's dictatorship and the danger it presents. I think to do that however we're going to have to take some serious action against the way we govern ourselves and I'm pretty sure that means eliminating the capacity politicians have for putting their politics first. By blowing the doors off all the back rooms they sneak around in.
Maybe Chinese people will take a clue.
Here’s something from MLW that I posted a long time ago. I still hold to it.
China
I have not bought anything from China for years. Buying shoes is difficult... but not impossible.
Toy recalls... melamine, lead... sweat-shops... Human rights.... all reasons I do this.
Walmart
I won't go there. Don't like their labour practices, their products or their shoppers.
I have no issues with Canada boycotting China. I already do myself.
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