{"id":3276,"date":"2020-03-19T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/the-chinese-virus-wake-up-call\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:31:36","slug":"the-chinese-virus-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/the-chinese-virus-wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Virus Wake-Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good will come of the current pandemic. People will learn how to be more self-reliant and less reliant on government.   They will learn how to prepare for emergencies.  They will learn how to slow down, prepare their own meals, stay home, travel less, read books, be more thoughtful and introspective, repair things, and anally cleanse without toilet paper. (No, I am not advocating a return to the Roman tersorium<\/a>!) They will finally learn some life skills. Or so I hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

But most important: we are now in a position as a nation to learn not to rely on enemies for our well-being.  I now hand off to John Moody:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For instance, with China\u2019s economy still reeling from the economic impact of the disease, maybe it\u2019s time for America to rethink our insane over-dependence on China for everything from clothes, to computers, to smart-phones, to even the medicines we need to combat corona\u2014which, despite politically correct howls to remain mute about it, started in China!<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, China makes things cheaper than Americans choose to make these days. Yes, China, when it is not busy imprisoning political dissidents and stealing our technology, has made huge advances in its manufacturing capabilities. And yes, it has proven to be a trading partner that takes advantage of us, but keeps pumping out the cheap consumer goods Americans love nearly as much as their freedom. <\/span><\/p>\n

Attention, America: that freedom is at risk. The massive shutdown of China\u2019s industrial output in response to the corona scourge has demonstrated just how thoroughly we have outsourced our manufacturing might in the name of saving a few bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The leftist scum who are attempting to use the current crisis to attack President Trump are attacking the very man who alone has the courage to oppose the globalist, borderless madness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good will come of the current pandemic. People will learn how to be more self-reliant and less reliant on government.   They will learn how to prepare for emergencies.  They will learn how to slow down, prepare their own meals, stay home, travel less, read books, be more thoughtful and introspective, repair things, and anally cleanse … Continue reading “The Chinese Virus Wake-Up Call”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,46,433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-foreign-policy","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}