This is amazing! Posted the report to my Western lib family chat with the header: “What a planned economy can do.” There is nothing but crickets in there, lol.

But seriously, the Chinese century let’s goooo!

It’s clearly petition* time!

*The ghoulish art of giving people a false sense of agency by asking them to sign one.

Lol sounds plausible.

It was due to petty bougie covid boredom here for sure, they had to find a way to go spread that shit in close proximity to others.

I’ll have to go do a bike tour of all the big padel halls that opened here because of it and see how many are now closed. Nobody even mentions padel anymore.

Oh yes we did this too. It’s so much fun. There was a version where you threw the ball to the wall and called out someones name who had to catch it while others run away. Then the person with the ball had to try and catch the others by throwing the ball at them, if they got you, you would burn out from the game.

I thought it was padel? Like a hundred of these popped up where I am from and all the petty bougies started doing this during covid. It’s sort if like squash, but in an aquarium of sorts I think. It’s the sweaty bougie display.

But could there have been a slower spreading variant first, circulating in stealth mode in the world? I fully believe that Western neoliberal healthcare could have missed these if they were singular unexplained pneunomia looking things in the elderly or anyone, we just treat symptoms if people aren’t dying.

Maybe whatever got introduced to China was already a variant that was able to take off better? Tourism could have a role here that nobody would want to look into as that too is important to the economy.

I know that the og variant got completely eradicated from my country and the following one was introduced by a single group of petty bourge alpine skiiers that travelled to Austria. It took months for the new variant to take off here, but it was traced back to those tourists.

Afaik even cats can get it. Stray cats are common in touristy places like the mediterranean cities. Who knows honestly, but the white paper does claim it wasn’t found in wildlife around Wuhan.

Well this. We know now that it thrives on fur farms for example. What if it originated in those, plenty of such farms in the “West”. In Finland for example the conditions are notoriously bad and there is no oversight.

I remember when it finally got aknowledged that white-tail deer are a coronavirus reservoir. Our local food and safety department announced that there is no need to test anything because there is no risk for spillover and covid-19 isn’t foodborne. They just stated that. So the motivation to test, track and understand just isn’t there in capitalist states.

The bird flu also thrives on fur farms and the “solution” this country chose was to allow the fur farmers to shoot the birds, even rare birds, around the farms to protect their industrialized animal cruelty business.

Huge malpractice, cruelty and overproduction issues were also revealed in local salmon farming. Dead birds in the tanks, the fish are suffocating and sick.

I don’t necessarily think the lab leak is likely, but I definitely think it could have started somewhere else than China and been imported there. Due to the general lack of oversight, lack of systems to notice a novel pathogen and just neoliberal capitalism being the way it is.

The Chinese hypothesis seems to still be that frozen food was the source.

Sweden’s Northvolt files for bankruptcy, in blow to Europe’s EV ambitions

How it’s going for euros trying to compete in battery production. The news is a bit old, but it just now entering discourse in Finland. Incredible amounts of money was spent on this project that was sold as some sort of mission to establish a homegrown, European industrial base for battery production.