If there’s any silver lining with the Wuhan virus, it’s that it has destroyed several widely-held beliefs. Globalism has been the biggest casualty. Over the years, American leaders let multinational corporations outsource and offshore, to lower costs and increase profits. Nowadays, supply chains are global and much of what the world manufactures is in some way reliant on China. Disruptions in China hurt everyone, including the United States. After all, China is home to a large percentage of the world’s drug manufacturing. A nation can’t exist if it’s dependent on other countries for medicine and other essential items. Put differently, if a nation can’t make what it needs, it’s not independent. Allowing key industries to be controlled by a potential enemy is even dumber.
Speaking of China, President Trump banned travel from China to stop the spread of the Wuhan virus. After criticizing him for weeks, Democrats and the mainstream media admitted the ban was necessary. The critics disingenuously argued that “disease doesn’t recognize borders.” These same hypocrites made these comments while sheltering-in-place, that is to say, cowering in their homes. If the walls of your house make you safer from disease, so does a wall at the southern border. If testing and quarantining help stop a pandemic, medically screening people who visit the United States helps prevent one. It’s so obvious that borders work, even the European Union ended freedom of movement.
Another myth that the Wuhan virus killed was that socialized medicine is a good thing. Here’s the deal. You either get free healthcare or good healthcare. You don’t get both. Being seen by a doctor doesn’t mean much if you have to wait for days and they can’t prescribe life-saving medicine. Faced with rationing of medical care and arguably the worst outbreaks in the world, a lot of Italians and Spaniards wish they had good healthcare, no matter how much it costs.
Finally, the Wuhan virus has exposed just how bad “green” policies are for humans. For example, reusable bags, which have replaced plastic and paper in many places, are disease magnets. They increase the spread of E. coli, salmonella and viruses. San Francisco, the city which first banned paper and plastic bags, was forced to start using them again because reusable bags are so dangerous. By the way, how many brainwashed millennials who use germ-infested public transportation and live in pods in densely-populated urban areas feel right about now? I suppose dying from a pandemic would reduce their carbon footprint, so there’s that.
Anyway, these are just a few of the things the elites and their press agents in the mainstream media have gotten wrong in recent years. Their failures raise two questions. First, what else have they gotten wrong? What other consensus or “settled science” is complete nonsense? The second question is this: are their failures the result of incompetence, or were they intentional?