"People are dying. When you have intentional, cold-blooded, premeditated action like you have with China, this would be considered first-degree murder."
"No one has been able to study it. How can you say it's not a release from a lab if you can't go to the lab? Indeed, we have seen Beijing do its best to prevent virologists and epidemiologists from actually going to Wuhan."
...the world will be different from how we imagined it in normal times... This is not a temporary rupture in an otherwise stable equilibrium: the crisis through which we are living is a turning point in history...
Fundamental to everything that governments have been doing is the presumption that the crisis can only be handled and solved through a comprehensive system of political command and control...
Right now, millions of New Yorkers are probably wondering how this tiger managed to get a test before their friend/brother/sister/mother/father/grandfather/aunt/etc...
...I'd normally dismiss escalating back and forth between US and China over this pandemic as typical statecraft... But this time I don’t think that’s the case... There’s something much more serious happening here...
"Eventually we’ll have certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person... Because you don’t want people moving around the world... this digital immunity proof will help facilitate the global reopening up."
