Originally Posted by
sanicom3205
The economy is in free fall, we fall farther behind the curve in terms of preparedness everyday, and Italy is the hardest hit country of any other country on this planet (we might change that).
The virus effects everyone from every country the same. It is a world-wide pandemic, that is threatening everyones well being - both financially and physically.
If you chose to focus on where it originated, stigmatizing the Chinese rather than focus of fighting it, you have to ask yourself why that is being done. In this country, this tactic of constantly tying it china is used to deflect blame on another country rather than take responsibility for our own leaders lack of actions. "I don't take responsibility at all".
We also have a long history of doing this in this country... calling diseases like HIV the "gay plague", and delaying our response to it until millions were dead. I don't fall into that group, so whatever!
It's covid-19, it's coming after your jobs and your health. That's the focus. Focus on anything else or deflect attention elsewhere and you're a moron.
The term moron is in itself a derogatory term. It was once an official psychological description for a person of low IQ but has been discarded by the pshrink community. The correct modern term is mentally disabled or person with a learning disability. To use this term is fully as repugnant as any racial epithet.
That aside this writer does have a valid point about focusing on getting through this crisis without blaming someone. It doesn't matter at this point where it came from. It's here. I'm already furloughed on account of this and I'd like to get back to work.