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Old 23rd Mar 2020, 03:26
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Hopefully the world has learnt a lesson about putting all your eggs in one basket (Chinese manufacturing) in a globalized marketplace. It's all well and good using cheap overseas labour to pad the profit margins of the one percent even further, but when everything goes wheels up, there has to be a Plan B.

When the dust finally settles, I hope that some first world countries consider re-establishing their own internal manufacturing base so that we are not all totally reliant on China. At the very least, the world has to pressure the Chinese government to close live animal markets (and keep them closed) FOREVER. They had a warning when SARS emerged in 2005 and didn't heed it. After all of this disruption, suffering and grief, it simply has to happen this time.

PS The descriptions of Joyce left out "sociopath" from the list.
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