“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
Why would the Communist Chinese government work to create a virus that does it’s worst on the oldest members of society? Well, who remembers the “One Child” policy in China of decades ago? It left China with a serious demographic ‘bump’ and a huge population of people outside of their productive years and beginning to need more and more healthcare and support and too few of the age groups in their own most productive period to support them. But would any government actually do such a thing? Would the direct heirs to the Communist government of Mao Zedong (who killed 45 million Chinese in four years during the Great Leap Forward) and who killed thousands of Chinese demonstrators in Tiananmen Square just thirty years ago do such a thing… I think I answered my own question.
The big question is did it get out of hand accidentally? Or did the CCP decide to ‘kill’ two birds with one stone?