Is China responsible for covid19 pandemic and what price should it pay?

Discussion in 'Economics' started by 1957may10, Apr 17, 2020.

  1. toc

    toc

    Just for 1 single year.........yes 1 single year ONLY

    If the world nations deduct 2% from their defense budgets and set up an organization where ONLY ONLY ONLY "top of the cream" researchers, academicians, scientist etc. carry out research on finding cures for medical issues on the global populations and animals.

    I am hopeful in 5-10 years we might not have things like cancers, diabetes, virus epidemics etc. etc.

    From the total $1.8 Trillion the figure comes to $36 Billion. This is massive figure but like insurance money towards safeguards from future epidemics and will payoff handsomely when big diseases and ailments start to disappear from our lives. This will also help boost economies when budgets have to spend much less on healthcare and similar costs.
     
    #61     Apr 17, 2020
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  2. I’m on your position however US government did not produce and did not spread the virus but Chinese CCP did.
    If they will in future we will vote them out. Did you see the difference?
     
    #62     Apr 17, 2020
  3. It may sound naive but maybe they learned hard and will make some improvement.
    We lost much more, do they have guts to realize?
     
    #63     Apr 17, 2020
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  4. I guess private competitive firms will do it better, just give them grants
     
    #64     Apr 17, 2020
  5. southall

    southall

    #65     Apr 17, 2020
  6. Virus research is dirty work. No doubt the west would outsource that to a Chinese lab.
    Infect the pigs with virus, see which ones die, feed the carcass of the dead ones to a new batch of pigs... It involves killing thousands of rats, pigs, etc. It's animal cruelty to the max.
     
    #66     Apr 17, 2020
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  7. Well, first if it came from lab, experts can find the man made stepprints on it.
    So far I did not read anything like that.
    Secondly why we funded this lab, to produce covid19....
    Very confusing.
    It was naturally evolved, unless experts can prove it opposite. So if it does not come from lab, what we are talking about.
     
    #67     Apr 17, 2020
  8. Do you think we make an order to China lab to make such virus?
     
    #68     Apr 17, 2020
  9. You need to do better research.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyk2NYx6wGnpoJ7ApTxWKg
     
    #69     Apr 17, 2020
  10. keesa

    keesa

    FWIW, scientists found that bats are excellent sources for virus. Someone has to do the dirty field work to collect them. This Wuhan Institute of Virology was funded to carry out the job. For the last twenty years, they collected over two thousands novel virus from the bat caves all over China. This is not a secret. These Chinese virologists published papers, and gave TED talks about their work. What we don't know is whether they handled the virus carefully. If we could find an early death from one of the staff member, we might have a clue.
     
    #70     Apr 17, 2020