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Some Romanoff light on China's response to covid

Lots of interesting stuff (none of who’s verity I can endorse; but it may be so) from Larry (who has spent much time in China). The picture he paints is of a populace and a government which trust and cooperate with each other in good faith, for the better good of all. Once again, it’s possible that it may be so. If it is, then this long article paints an impressive picture of effective government meeting an unknown - and potentially catastrophic - novel threat, and - with the full cooperation of the people; vital proviso! - sledge-hammering it with awesome efficiency into the ground. It also paints a picture of a government - and a people - striving to be good neighbours to the world with both urgent supplies and vital information as it came available - including to wilfully bad neighbours - once they had their home situation under control.

Bully for them, if it really was like that. Still makes me wonder, though, what happens if the ultra-lockdown response means that the bulk of the Chinese population still hasn’t had enough exposure to the pathogen - whatever it really is - to have developed natural herd immunity. That being their only long-term safeguard.

Another factor mentioned is that Chinese governments have long known that hostile elements in the world have been tinkering with bio-warfare agents to use against China since at least 1950. So, when something weird happens in Wuhan of all places, with its US-supported biowarfare lab right there, and the Military Games also taking place, just before the outbreak was first identified, red lights must have started flashing in many strategic-thinking groups within the Chinese leadership. Thus, the already very well prepared and previously tested sledge-hammer was put to work immediately, just in case; and - of course - as a demo to the world of what China can do to defend itself against biowar, when necessary. Contrasts woefully with the chaotic, corruption-soused, Gatesoid-poisoned omni-shambles in USuk and much of the rest of the Anglozionist empire, doesn’t it?

Finally, may I draw attention rather proudly to the paragraph quoted below. For anyone needing such services, I can put you in touch with an acupuncture-practicing sweetheart of mine who is a veteran at both acupuncture and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), a sort of ancient, long-matured herbal-medicine system, with shamanic overtones, which - surprise, surprise! - works amongst many other things to strengthen the immune system:

“Still, it was then that Chinese physicians began the use of blood plasma from recovered patients as well as the nearly universal application of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It was these discoveries and treatments that almost instantly halved the mortality rate, especially from the more severe infections, and speeded up the recovery time. The Western media completely ignored this aspect, but it was widely proven that TCM was perhaps the primary factor in reducing the mortality rate by boosting the patients’ immune systems.”

To which I would add the mega-dose vitamin C treatment which was tried also in several Shanghai and other Chinese hospitals. Also strikingly successfully (surprise, surprise!) :slight_smile: :

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Veering firmly towards hagiography was it not?

thanks @RhisiartGwilym. I also posted it here, as there is no way to have any kind of critical discussion about this piece on The Saker, sadly. Not that I have a huge amount of criticism about it, but I imagine some here do! And it’s worth having the discussion at least…

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Undoubtedly, K. That’s why I had my salt-bucket to hand when reading it. As with Godfree Roberts, that other China enthusiast. Trouble is, we Westerners know so little about China, and most of what we think we know is just toxic propa-shite. So items like this one at least offer a bit of balance. There might be some accuracy in it. OMS rools, OK! :slight_smile:

Yep! What Larry describes is - apparently - a state AND its people in agreement, and pushing the currently-orthodox responses to a novel pathogen with enough completeness to make it work - if it does, even then…? I have no hard, decided opinions about that. There remains a lot of evidence in play that affirms that masks and mass quarantines simply don’t work. But maybe that has something to do with the impossibility of Western governments being able to earn the same degree of trust and therefore of unanimity from their populaces - deservedly, of course. We really can’t trust these buggers.

The natural herd immunity argument does carry weight though. ARE the Chinese now naturally, seriously immune - or is that still to earn? If it is, there will be some more pneumonic deaths along the way, I suppose.

Seems to me that the TCM treatments will make all the difference, since if there’s one thing about which we might reach a tentative consensus by now, it’s that there really are effective treatments for the illness, which reduce severity and down-time, and save a lot of unnecessary deaths. All you need is a government authority which is so NOT under the thumb of criminal gics on the make that it is prepared to explore and expedite that option as well, as China seems to be doing.