Will China be brought to account?

[Blue One]

So this Coronavirus is the third sh*tstorm China has unleashed on the world this century, and the most deadly and impactful (the other two being SARS and bird flu). There are two sets of charges against them:

1. Economic/Human; cost, damage, death, health, disruption etc
2. Nature: barbaric treatment of animals, no effective action to manage transference of illness from animals to humans despite two previous instances

Beyond that, and not directly related, is the fact that almost any animal extinction story, or ecological disaster seems to have China's fingerprints on it (ivory trade/poaching, tiger hunting, shark fins, rainforest destruction etc).

The Chinese really have a lot of answer for! Despite that, I have a feeling they will emerge from this latest crisis stronger than ever as the world is now almost totally dependant on Chinese goods, money and support.

Ideally, some international court should slap real restrictions on China and make sure they make real changes to stop this kind of thing being repeated and to roll-back their impact on animals and nature.

Thoughts?

[Blue One]

J4CKO said:

Nope it didn't, but it was an example of doing stuff badly, in an unnatural way that caused a disease.

It would have done if globally everyone had a mad craving for British Mad beefburgers, or actually, no they would be horse so would need to be actual beef.

Yes, but this is the THIRD TIME China has caused a global health crisis in the last 20 yrs, there's something systematically wrong with the way they do things that needs to change and IMO they need to made to do this.

We're not looking to past 'bad things' generally, we're talking about a modern global superpower that has caused global health pandemics three times in 20 years, not 'who invaded what, and this to them' in 1891 or whatever...

[Blue One]

Interesting (albeit lightweight) article on this topic on Sky News Online: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-anger-is-gr...