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2020-04-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Pandemic Exposes Liberalism's Free Market, Open Borders Road to National Suicide

[Strategic Culture Foundation] Open Borders and Free Trade induce national suicide slowly and gradually, without the victims waking up to what is going on until it is too late. But the coronavirus has brought home with global clarity that human societies need governments and regulated borders for their own survival.

The bottom line is clear, societies that have had open borders to previous major centers of infection and transmission, like Iran and Italy which kept open strong flows of people to and from China in the early stages of pandemic, suffered exceptionally badly. Countries obsessed with maintaining liberal values and open borders like France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the U.S. also suffered disproportionately.

Countries that have allowed their domestic industry to decay have found they cannot now produce the crucial equipment they need, from respirators to gas masks. Countries with strong manufacturing bases like China, or with a prudent nationalist sense of preparing ahead for emergencies like Russia, have done far better. The shortage of respirators in Britain has become more than a national scandal: It is a national shame. That is another inexorable consequence of the pernicious doctrine of Free Trade.

I documented this history in some detail in my 2012 book "That Should Still Be Us".

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-26 01:02|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Countries with strong manufacturing bases like China, or with a prudent nationalist sense of preparing ahead for emergencies like Russia, have done far better.

Sorry to rain on his parade, but Chinese numbers are a lie and Russia is getting hammered even as we speak. It's countries what took the new coronavirus seriously - and have responsible (adult) population what escaped with minor ravages.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 02:39|| 2020-04-26 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Glad to see these countries wasting money trying to obtain N95 masks. Cargo cult morons.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:44|| 2020-04-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Do consumers desire cheaper products or not? Consumers drive the train, not the other way around.
And maybe unions should be a little less demanding with their wage demands.
And maybe government can overhaul a pathetic tax code.
And....

Posted by Clem 2020-04-26 10:57|| 2020-04-26 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Look at the daily new infection curve for each of the 50 US states, note when (or even whether) each state imposed Stay At Home policies -- that date is indicated on each lockdown state's curve -- and ask yourselves what the correlation is between the lockdowns and the shape of the infection curve.

Can you say, zero?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-26 11:01|| 2020-04-26 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It's such a scam. Pathetic.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-26 11:05|| 2020-04-26 11:05|| Front Page Top

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