I'm really sorry to hear about your unemployment situation 'dack.Nodack wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:08 amHere in the US we blame China for the virus. In China they blame the US.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1186556.shtml
The alleged scientist, Shi Yi, claimed that American officials had “not given any public response” on the issue of a Chinese Communist Party conspiracy theory that a U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland was the origin of the virus.
The remarks came amid circulating reports alleging that the Fort Detrick laboratory, which handles high-level disease-causing materials such as Ebola, in Fredrick, Maryland, may be the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 2.6 million Americans with nearly 20,000 deaths as of 4:30 pm Thursday.
The lab was ordered to shut down in July 2019, reportedly for multiple causes, including failure to follow local procedures and a lack of periodic recertification training for workers in the biocontainment laboratories.
Some other posts on social media platforms also alleged that a US armed diplomatic driver and cyclist who was in Wuhan in October 2019 for the cycling competition in the Military World Games, could be patient zero for COVID-19 in Wuhan.
And this post is also very pertinent. The average Chinese netizen lacks the ability to differentiate between rumor and news from reputable sources, thus my rant yesterday about the state of the media today. What I've seen over the years, which may explain some of the behavior we've seen over the last few months in both China and the US: both the Chinese and American people have a deep-rooted mistrust of the government. The difference being, when the government says we are at threat level 5 out of 10, Chinese people automatically think the real threat level is at 15 and the government is trying to pull a fast one, whereas Americans think threat level is at 1.5 and the government is just using this as an excuse to infringe upon our civil liberties.
Back to your post, Chinese people are notorious for going for the most sensational stories, no matter how unlikely, just as long as it garners a reaction. I flamed a lot of people over the first few weeks of the crisis with, sadly, limited success. Once people believe something, they refuse to listen to arguments based on logic.