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Posted by alexandra_k on March 2, 2020, at 3:21:43
I go to the library and I read some papers from around the world.
I see Chinese newspapers - in translation, of course.
And I feel bad that the world doesn't know what is happening in China because the world didn't bother to invest in speaking Chinese and thus is serves us right.
So we see the 'united front' that China presents about how they have everything under control.
And what else are they supposed to present to the developed world?
And so they are criticised for it...
But what ya gonna do?
I am remembering some quote I quoted in my thesis from somebody... Somebody who knows, presumably, or maybe I just liked what they said and hoped they knew. Felt they were more qualified than me.
They were saying about economic revolutions in recent times. About how economic revolutions have come about my countries (e.g., Japan) protecting their local economies behind tarrifs and other barriers to free trade.
And I have been thinking about the economic impact of the Corona virus.
1) New Zealand relies on tourism a lot. New Zealand relies on educational tourism a lot. International Students. New Zealand relies on International Students from China, a lot. New Zealand treats those students like sh*t when they arrive. New Zealand does not teach them English well when we market we will do that in fact. New Zealand does not send New Zealand students to China to learn Chinese and become educated in China.
2) A lot of Chinese studnets aren't coming to New Zealand because the Universities will not (cannot) offer them self contained accommodation so they can self-isolate for 2 weeks on arrival. They are forced to live communally only without access to private bathroom / food preparation facilities. So... They aren't coming.
I wonder if the Coronavirus is a way of China protecting it's own people.
And (I feel bad about this) trying to teach Hong Kong a lesson in how it's economy is fragile without the backing of the Chinese Government. I don't know how much that may or may not be true. I don't know how much the Hong Kong economy was based on the 'finance, insurance, real estate' bubble of New York... The collapse.. I don't know how much a collapse of the Hong Kong economy is inevitable as much as the collapse of the Auckland housing bubble (just following what happened in the US however many years behind)... I don't know how much Hong Kong independence is a pipe dream like AUckland independence would be vs how much China simply won't let it go / won't grant it it's deseved freedom...
I just don't know.
But many deficiencies in NZ have been revealed.
We don't have temperature scanning in our air ports.
We needed to test a 'gift case' 3 times before we managed to find the freaking corona virus in him. ffs. And we still haven't managed to contact the people in the 2 rows before and behind him on the freaking aeroplane several days later.
ffs.
Posted by alexandra_k on March 2, 2020, at 3:27:02
In reply to corona virus, posted by alexandra_k on March 2, 2020, at 3:21:43
And I did see in the NY times that several wall street journalists were kicked out of China. And that one is missing in the hot spot area.
And that is interesting. How many journalists were kicked out of China back to the US vs how many journalists were kicked out of America back to China.
And I do think it is interesting that the one who is missing... Is not getting information out.
That is concerning.
And I read the Baltimore Sun a little.
Becauase, by the sounds of it, they are world leading in Trauma 1.
And in corruption...
They celebrate ''The Wire'' still... Still... However many years later.
There is something sad about that. That however many years later they are still celebrating that.
There is something... Trauma bonding... About that.
Something... LIke... You confess your sins 'we are corrupt'. And then... Nobody punishes you / nobody stops you. And so...
Permission to carry on.
There is something... That about it. That concerns me.
The choosing of that (of corruption) as a normal way of life.
Posted by alexandra_k on March 2, 2020, at 3:40:39
In reply to Re: corona virus, posted by alexandra_k on March 2, 2020, at 3:27:02
And my concern for New Zealand is that New Zealand recently says 'we are a nation of child abusers'
And then...
And then...
Permission to carry on?
So... The coronavirus has been a way that China investment in New Zealand has been withdrawn. As we have not been able to offer suitable accommodation for their children (we say 18 years old is adult but...)
I saw this talk at the University of Auckland Law School. Online.
About corruption.
About how we didn't ratify to start with because we knew we couldn't comply.
Other countries ratified because they thought they could comply.
There was then a rocky journey while they were told that they failed to comply even though they thought they had complied etc etc.
We have recently complied. Now we are learning that we don't understand what compliance even means.
The way we define corruption is so narrow...
As I know. As someone who reported 'extortion' and 'double billing of a government department' and was laughted at by the corruption hotline.
We don't know what corruption meeeeeeeeeeans.
Apparently we didn't ratify on the rights of children.
Because we still don't know what human rights meeeeeeeeeans.
Not even our adults have human rights. Not in New Zealand.
That's why people don't make sense of disabled people having rights, or ethnic minority people having rights. Nobody has rights in New Zealand.
There was recently a thing in the paper where Peter Singer said he would damage his reputation coming to New Zealand. We can't tell the difference between a Princeton Philosophy Professor and a YouTuber when it comes to deciding whether or not to uphold freedom of speech in University environments, even.
Someone (probably from the dairy board) managed to get together a bunch of intellectually handicapped people to protest about Singer saying that disabled people weren't morally worth more than animals (or similar).
What he was saying in fact was that animals have complex goals and desires and ability to form long term plans - much more so than many disabled people who are in comas or who are very very very severely intellectually disabled. He was claiming that the abiity to suffer was not intrinscially tied to species membership but was to do with the abilty to form these higher level capacities.
It is important to understand Singer as a person who likely understands the idea of compassion and respet for the planet and the rock face and as a person who has even more respect and compassion for sentient beings. And even more respect and compassion for beings capable of feeling indignant that their value is being unappreciated.
But someone (likely from the dairy board) didn't like Singers stance on animal rights. So decided to use the diability community for their own ends and for their own agenda. Exploiting the cognitive capacity of some members of the disbaility community to further their own agenda and discredit Singer for the interests of further exploitation of animals.
MOre recently...
Very recently...
A spokesperson for the disabiltiy community said that the disabiltiy community stands for freedom of speech.
But, still, why would Singer come here for the damange to his reputation. For the silenceing from teh Disbailtiy community. For the silencing from any community that does not want their people to understand that they have rights.
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