From the Twitter:
Coronavirus in China kept me under quarantine. I felt safer there than back in the U.S., writes Tony Perman.
Our laissez-faire attitude, prioritization of personal freedom and utter lack of government leadership have left Americans confused and exposed.https://t.co/GaKLvi2PW8
— NBC News THINK (@NBCNewsTHINK) March 14, 2020
Yeah, freedom bad, total government control good.
My question is: does this guy really believe this, or did the Chinese government make him write it at gunpoint?
I’ve now lived through a coronavirus quarantine in the two countries, and the differences are stark well beyond their airports. In China, the obligation to isolate felt shared and the public changed their habits almost immediately. Sterilization, cleanliness and social distancing were prioritized by everyone at all times. Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese state’s heavy-handed approach seemed to work.
Heavy-handed is a nice euphemism for “shot on sight by Chinese military police.”
There are lessons to be learned from the Chinese people if not its leadership, including that everybody must accept their own responsibility, vulnerability and complicity — sacrificing “rights” for the collective good — or many of us will die.
Fifty million Chinese were “sacrificed” for the collective good in the 20th century. Being treated as disposable by a tyrannical government is part of the Chinese national culture at this point.
We left Shanghai as the city was showing signs of flickering optimism. New cases were rare. Life was returning to normal, and the millions of quarantined residents were emerging tentatively from the shadows.
We entered the U.S. as a country in panic. Guidelines shift from day to day and agency to agency. Coronavirus tests and adequate health facilities are in short supply. It’s clear that the government can’t stop the spread.
We can’t simply hope high-risk people manage to avoid infecting others. It is up to all of us and each of us. We are all threats and we are all innocents.
We are trying to go out as little as possible, and I most certainly want to avoid the virus.
However, as a man in reasonably good health in my mid 30’s, I believe I have a much better chance at surviving Coronavirus than a 7.62×39 to the back of the skull for saying something the Chinese government doesn’t like on the internet.
I’ll take my chances in the US, thank you very much. This guy is welcome to go back to China any time and spend the rest of his life parroting Chinese government propaganda for cash.
This idiot is a never Trumper, has TDS
I wonder if he’s ever heard of the Cultural Revolution? Of course, he might think that was a good thing. Anybody who puts the word rights in quotes deserves to spend years in a Chicom re-education camp.
For the past 3+ years, all the demoncrap/never-Trumpers have been running around with their hair on fire screaming “Trump is Hitler Nazi Incarnate™! He is going to declare hisself God Emperor, Dictator of the Known Universe”! Reeeeee!
But now they’re complaining about his ‘lack of leadership’?
If this doesn’t convince a person that they’re delusional idjits with the mentality of a 12 year old going through puberty masquerading as an adult, I don’t know what will.
He’s on the Chinese payroll, and should be treated as an enemy agent.
And if Trump was to take the actions these people are advocating for, they would immediately and without embarrassment begin to call him a dictator.
You cant ever win with liberals…. We the People need to start acting like libs are 24% of the population. Ignore them. Live life. Laugh at them. Live life. As Mr Clint Smith once said,” beat the shit out of them and they will all buy guns.” But thats exhausting….
Most likely the puke is being paid off, or betting that he’ll get better access in the future.
He’s from NBC, the ass-end of MSNBC, who are perpetually trying to out-CNN in their TDS anti-Americanism. He following in the tradition of CNN who knowingly transmitted lying propaganda from Saddam Hussein to “maintain access”. His nose is so far up Xi’s butt he’s looking out nostrils.
And this guy will continue to feel safe in China so long as he refrains from posting any suggestions about how the Chinese government might further improve its response to the virus. If he decides to go forward with any such suggests or makes them sooner that necessary, he might suddenly discover that he doesn’t feel so safe after all.