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Did China Have An Excellent COVID Response?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ophiolite" data-source="post: 75540860" data-attributes="member: 234799"><p>The economy has everything to do with human life, since it should operate only to support and enrich human life. But too often the economy is seen as an independent 'entity' that has its own rights, a notion encouraged by elements within some businesses and arguably implicit within the principles of raw capitalism, though I think Adam Smith would turn in his grave at the thought that is what it has become. </p><p>The way to protect the economy is to first protect human life. Those countries or regions that took early, strong, stepts to contain the epidemic are now enjoying normal, or near normal conditions and healthy (at least comparatively) economies. Fewer lifes are lost. The impact on the economy is reduced in time and overall impact. </p><p>Just as well I didn't present it, other than to mirror your presentation of it in your OP. (Perhaps you didn't notice you had implicitly done so.) The primary choice is to save human life and by doing this we save the economy and thus enrich the human life we have saved. It's not rocket science.</p><p>The Chinese are forced to accept restrictions upon their freedoms that benefit them in the longer term. I wish Americans were smart enough to willingly accept restrictions on their freedoms to benefit them in the long term. Unfortunately only some of your countrymen think that way. I honour them for that perceptiveness and compassion, and hope that you might be granted similar insight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ophiolite, post: 75540860, member: 234799"] The economy has everything to do with human life, since it should operate only to support and enrich human life. But too often the economy is seen as an independent 'entity' that has its own rights, a notion encouraged by elements within some businesses and arguably implicit within the principles of raw capitalism, though I think Adam Smith would turn in his grave at the thought that is what it has become. The way to protect the economy is to first protect human life. Those countries or regions that took early, strong, stepts to contain the epidemic are now enjoying normal, or near normal conditions and healthy (at least comparatively) economies. Fewer lifes are lost. The impact on the economy is reduced in time and overall impact. Just as well I didn't present it, other than to mirror your presentation of it in your OP. (Perhaps you didn't notice you had implicitly done so.) The primary choice is to save human life and by doing this we save the economy and thus enrich the human life we have saved. It's not rocket science. The Chinese are forced to accept restrictions upon their freedoms that benefit them in the longer term. I wish Americans were smart enough to willingly accept restrictions on their freedoms to benefit them in the long term. Unfortunately only some of your countrymen think that way. I honour them for that perceptiveness and compassion, and hope that you might be granted similar insight. [/QUOTE]
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