RE: Council on Foreign Relations Discusses COVID-19 on Feb. 13 2020.
Only those of your "fweedom" zealots subscribing to Alex Jones style paranoia would perceive the panel discussion above as some looney conspiracy gathering. Restricting false information designed to cause panic, during a time of a health crisis, is not "censorship of tyranny," but responsible and rational governance. Only those of your ilk, blind to the realities of circumstance by their fanatical devotion to "fweedom," would whine about government policies intended to minimise social harm. The panel does not even advocate restriction of blatantly ridiculous ideas - i.e. anti-vaxx - from public discourse, but discusses possible methods to overcome misinformation and fear-mongering of the anti-vaxx paranoia.
The spread of this epidemic has been limited to a few cities and isolated cases in a handful of countries because of the "tyrannical" measures by the CCP. I am sure your "fweedom" ilk would not be satisfied, unless the disease spread far and wide via unrestricted movement of people, but thankfully, rational minds prevailed in China. The riots in Hong Kong due to lack of government control in tempering social panic, while may be a paragon of social governance in the modern degenerate West, does not correlate to rational governance in most civilised societies.
Men need decisive leadership in times of crisis, or they degenerate into irrational beasts, as you can readily observe in Hong Kong. It is to the benefit of humanity that feckless mongrels and populist prostitutes, who only know how to parrot second-rate humanists, are not in positions of power in China at this time. Otherwise, this epidemic would have spread to all of Asia and beyond. The duty of rulers is to make hard choices that the peasant scum can not and will not.
It is obvious that overlords protecting their prerogative are the greatest threat to humanity today, and this epidemic, caused by the CCP itself when it censored Li Wenliang's warning that there was an outbreak of a new disease, is all the proof necessary to people capable of rational thought.
Being in denial of this fact, you prove you aren't rational. Every falsehood that forms your deranged rants simply indicts the masters you obsequiously idolize to your existential risk.
Despite no one of sound mind will agree, you soldier on, marching to your doom, because it doesn't matter to you who have condemned yourself to intellectual death already. Rational people will learn facts, know the truth, and live free.
You cannot.
Prosperity and joy is the fruit of factual understanding, and death and destruction the result of deceit and ignorance.
What do we observe in China today? 760 million people brutally victimized by barbarians, 10% of the world's population. The fruit of your philosophy.
It is political and social stability that fosters prosperity. Your "fweedom" tend to result in instability, misery, and chaos. China is under "brutal" tyranny? Why stop there. According to your definition of "fweedom" and "tyranny," the entire human race that live under any organised system of government live under "slavery" and "tyranny." I suppose only those subsisting in the jungles of the Amazon would be "fwee" from "tyranny. Actually, even those who live in tribal structures in the deep Amazon jungle have a system of social hierarchy and government - ie an institutionalised system/tradition to settle disputes. It seems that no human being is truly "fwee" as you deem it.
Only Alex Jones' disciples would consider the above rational panel discussion by experts as a conspiracy gathering. Prevention of social panic by control of misinformation and incomplete facts is "evil censorship." According to you, every society ought to provide unrestricted platform to those who spread misinformation and conspiracy theories, thereby destabilising society, undermining rational governance, and detracting from the common sum of human knowledge. Only in a "fwee" society would the subjects believe that the Earth is flat, reptilian aliens rule the world, vaccines cause cancer, biology changes depending on the state of mind, and other lunacies propagated by intentional or authentic idiots. "Fweedom" breeds idiocracy.
Here is your idiocracy, courtesy of exactly what you advocate.
Let reality penetrate the political shields that insulate your reason. I know you can do it.
I hope you do.
Indeed, these are the idiocracy born of "fweedom" you so advocate. When the iron fist of the central government loosens due to epidemics, the true nature of your beloved peasant scum is illuminated. Without effective central control and enforcement, men devolve into beasts. It is you, and your "fweedom" zealots, who fail to recognise reality; you are made blind and deaf that "though seeing [you] do not see, and hearing [you] do not hear or understand." Having made yourselves into gods to dictate to Heaven your whims as law, overcome by self-worship and narcissism, you "call evil good and good evil . . . turn darkness into light and light into darkness . . . turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter."
The reforms of Deng have clearly failed in creating sociocultural stability. Would these peasants have acted thus, had the CCP continued Mao's cultural revolution? That is the central question the politburo will be contemplating, once Xi's factional battle with his various enemies concludes. The next politburo standing committee, regardless of the victor of the current political infighting, will not be so forgiving and open as the current regime.