Why not? What do you think brought this disease into contact with humans? Just because it isn't a realistic geopolitical possibility doesn't make it obviously wrong.
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The slippery slope of litigious compensation demands against China for criminal negligence 1) presumes they will solemnly respect and answer to international law and 2) opens the US up to compensation claims from basically every country adjacent to the Middle East.
Nobody asked if anyone thought it would actually happen. I'd accept compensation in kind by their simply preventing a recurrence. Well, I haven't suffered much of an injury myself, but you get what I'm saying. I wouldn't get this upset about bird flu. It's a class thing.
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And bird flu is potentially a far worse disease. But I don't expect Liberia to stamp out bushmeat in the actual jungle, or point of sale slaughter in areas without widespread refrigeration. Or camel slaughter in Yemen, where it risks a MERS outbreak.
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What's more likely is that we'll get exactly what we wished for - As soon as we all get back to buying 100% of our essential goods from them, China will go on an apology tour, splashing recovery cash around everywhere and destroying Western financial hegemony in the process
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Oh God yeah. In fact this very early on became an attempt to demonstrate the extent to which they're already there. The videos of people getting welded into their homes was bragging: we can do this because we understand the stakes and nothing stands in our way.
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