A) trade is not what spreads illness.. Travel does..
You can import zero trade goods and it isn’t stopping this... plus it takes a global economy to power the modern world..
Diamonds from Africa, copper from main, phosphorus from Italy, exc...
B) I also wonder what it is about that region that spawns super bugs.
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1. Wet markets where they congregation animals from all over the world, stacking them in small cages piled on top of each other - species that were never together before - causing the evolution of viruses that cross between them and humans. The bleed, urinate and defecate on all below them. Mixing species from around the world - that carry diseases that can pass to humans and maximized the evolution of new deadly diseases and viruses. This spreading disease across the world continuously has been known for over a decade - and exactly nothing is done about. I started a thread about this - no one cares.
As a comment, the savagery of those wet markets is beyond imagination. For example, the tie off and then chop off the legs of living dogs and other animals as they can be more compactly stored that way.
2. China turns a blind eye to their bio-lab employees selling dead lab animals to the wet markets - where with the other animals they are sold and usually butchered and even cooked on the spot with no sanitary rules whatsoever. Any virus in a Chinese lab or created in a Chinese lab will ultimately travel across the world.
Both those practices are very desirable to the Chinese government, because who is most vulnerable are the non-productive elderly. China has an overwhelming elderly population due to years and years of an enforced "one child" law (ie forced abortions) - for which most wanted a male child. Thus, N. Korea is China's source of women and brides. In communism, it is everyone's duty to produce for society. Non-productive people should be eliminated in communist theory of the collective hive. The elderly don't produce but only consume, so they need to be eliminated.
Why would China care of spreading this to the rest of the world? This way China loses no competitive edge regardless. Killing non-producing elderly benefits every government's budget, including our own. Every elderly person killed off is an other person for which all social security, medicare and all over government expenses are eliminated and the government will only pay about $300 for a funeral. How else to deal with an entitlement system for the elder than everyone in the budget side of government knows can not be sustained?
This also addresses the severe problem of an out-of-control population growth in the poorest regions of Africa, which is disruptive to China's massively growing investing in Africa and African natural and agricultural resources.
Anyway, that is where these diseases and viruses come from - and nearly all have come from - all the way back to the black plague in the 1300s and probably the Spanish influenza - though that is uncertain. Yellow fever that slaughtered the Americas came from Africa, where they also eat any and all animals - causing cross species diseases. Many animals naturally carry diseases that do not harm them, but do harm humans - such as Syphilis. Primates and bats carry many diseases lethal and communicative to and between humans. They eat primates and bats (and everything else). There are not sanitary or handling rules, even against eating raw meat in most areas. Then they or who they infected travel here.
You are correct it is the movement of people, not products (for the most part) that causes pandemics. In human history, the movement of people has likely killed a thousand times more people than all wars combined. Such virus migration to new territories has caused entire extinctions of humans in known history - such as 100% of every person and race on every Caribbean Island - no exceptions. Not one indigenous person survived. Total extinction of entire land masses of people that had existed there for thousands of years. It killed at least 95% of the indigenous peoples of the Americas - estimated as many as 200 million.
But the slogans of globalism and greed make all that completely irrelevant. Kill a million people a year, a hundred million people a year, a billion people, nothing will change. There is no profit in stopping this, only profit in allowing it to continue and ideally worsening each year. There are too many non-productive old people in the world.
Even though all of this has been known for decades, merely mentioning it makes me a crazy conspiracy theorist. No one dare question the perfection and motives of any government and certainly no one ever does anything but perfect behavior for greed.
