SARS Pt. 2 - Wuhan Boogaloo

[Smitty-48]

I don't want to catch this shit either it's spooky af and I'm a smoker and missing organs already. I think I would probably be fine but no telling. Sounds like a bad way to go and I still haven't had a chance to get my life back together I would hate to die in the state I'm in rn.

You just don't want to end up going to the hospital for any reason

That's the kill zone, stay out of there

The more this shit concentrates in one place the deadlier it gets

[Smitty-48]

The bottom line is that no matter how much the cases go up, the death rate climbs with them

It's not the Spanish Flu, but it's plenty deadly enough to not allow my wife out of the compound

She wouldn't go anyways right now, if her firm demanded she come into the office she'd quit on the spot

She refuses to go anywhere near this bug

Germophobic Warfare

[Smitty-48]

They just passed a law here, it is now a criminal offense to price gouge

$100,000 fine / up to a year in jail for individuals, $10,000,000 fine for corporations

[SuburbanFarmer]

Imagine I'm a totalitarian regime running on fumes, and I really DGAF.

I release a bioweapon into my own population, immediately declare a full lockdown and hide all the deaths. A few weeks later, it's spread to the rest of the world, and I just have to fight off incoming infections from travelers.

No overt aggressive action will ever be proven, because I killed the guy that did it. Just took a lipstick sprayer and a walk through the market.

But what's the end game ?

Eventually the target will have the vaccine and then there will be a demand side bounce back

So it doesn't win the attacker anything, Rube Goldberg Device Fool's Errand

If it is some a diabolical plan by China, it doesn't win them anything and has a ton of downsides, so it's completely counter-productive and a full retard plan.

End game would be to watch the collapse of the dollar into hyper-inflation, and gain economic dominance as the ‘safe harbor’. We’re doing a fantastic job of destroying ourselves with money printing.

Just a hypothesis, not a strong belief. I’m positing the possibility that if those sick clowns are really playing they long game’, this would be how to win it.
More importantly, the government could use it as casus belli. I’m certain that I’m not the only one with this idea.

[Smitty-48]

My brother-in-law just called me directly

That's never happened before

My niece-in-law told him that Uncle Smitty is "in his bunker right now"

He hasn't been taking this too seriously, but he wanted to confirm that I am in the bunker

To which I said yes, and your sister is not allowed out of the bunker right now

So now he's thinking about sheltering in place, but they're still not there yet, even tho he's got wife and three kids

This is why we are in the bunker, the people who are not taking this seriously are the zombies naow

[Smitty-48]

But what's the end game ?

Eventually the target will have the vaccine and then there will be a demand side bounce back

So it doesn't win the attacker anything, Rube Goldberg Device Fool's Errand

If it is some a diabolical plan by China, it doesn't win them anything and has a ton of downsides, so it's completely counter-productive and a full retard plan.

End game would be to watch the collapse of the dollar into hyper-inflation, and gain economic dominance as the ‘safe harbor’. We’re doing a fantastic job of destroying ourselves with money printing.

Just a hypothesis, not a strong belief. I’m positing the possibility that if those sick clowns are really playing they long game’, this would be how to win it.
More importantly, the government could use it as casus belli. I’m certain that I’m not the only one with this idea.

China's wealth is not its own, it's all in foreign currency, hyperinflation takes them down too

[SuburbanFarmer]

If it is some a diabolical plan by China, it doesn't win them anything and has a ton of downsides, so it's completely counter-productive and a full retard plan.

End game would be to watch the collapse of the dollar into hyper-inflation, and gain economic dominance as the ‘safe harbor’. We’re doing a fantastic job of destroying ourselves with money printing.

Just a hypothesis, not a strong belief. I’m positing the possibility that if those sick clowns are really playing they long game’, this would be how to win it.
More importantly, the government could use it as casus belli. I’m certain that I’m not the only one with this idea.

China's wealth is not its own, it's all in foreign currency, hyperinflation takes them down too

Not so much. They’re positioned as the manufacturing center of the world. If the rest of the worlds dollars are worth less, then their goods are worth more. Their workers’ pay is worth more, and their purchasing power is higher.

Whatever they have stashed in foreign debt is not consequential to their manufacturing power.

[Smitty-48]

In terms of the totalitarian state centralizing more power, its actually had the opposite effect

Xi Jinping's popularity plummeted from an all time high to an all time low along with the outbreak

I don't think he would have shot himself in the foot on purpose

[Smitty-48]

End game would be to watch the collapse of the dollar into hyper-inflation, and gain economic dominance as the ‘safe harbor’. We’re doing a fantastic job of destroying ourselves with money printing.

Just a hypothesis, not a strong belief. I’m positing the possibility that if those sick clowns are really playing they long game’, this would be how to win it.
More importantly, the government could use it as casus belli. I’m certain that I’m not the only one with this idea.

China's wealth is not its own, it's all in foreign currency, hyperinflation takes them down too

Not so much. They’re positioned as the manufacturing center of the world. If the rest of the worlds dollars are worth less, then their goods are worth more. Their workers’ pay is worth more, and their purchasing power is higher.

Whatever they have stashed in foreign debt is not consequential to their manufacturing power.

The manufacturing center of the world does not give you a flight to quality, manufacturing is now low grade work

It's the Information Age,

Information is now the most valuable commodity on earth, the value of labor is collapsing

The Chinese even offshore manufacturing work to Mexico now, even in Mexico, they use 3D printers now

[SuburbanFarmer]

China's wealth is not its own, it's all in foreign currency, hyperinflation takes them down too

Not so much. They’re positioned as the manufacturing center of the world. If the rest of the worlds dollars are worth less, then their goods are worth more. Their workers’ pay is worth more, and their purchasing power is higher.

Whatever they have stashed in foreign debt is not consequential to their manufacturing power.

The manufacturing center of the world does not give you a flight to quality, manufacturing is now low grade work

It's the Information Age,

Information is now the most valuable commodity on earth, the value of labor is collapsing

The Chinese even offshore manufacturing work to Mexico now

Part of the shift into first-world economy. They have a shitty house in the neighborhood, so they just make the whole neighborhood shittier.