The coronavirus has a lot of people worried rightfully so to an extent. While so many people are panicking, I think one of the lessons that should be learned from this situation is being totally ignored. Have you noticed that most of these pandemics start in China? SARS, the swine flu, the bird flu, and MERS all got their start in China. Certainly China is not responsible for all pandemic outbreaks but they certainly get more than their fair share if you look back at the last 50 years.

Many of these diseases are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals and jump to humans. One of the problems in China is that many farmers raising these animals live with their animals in squalid conditions. They literally will have living quarters in the barn with the animals which can include bats hanging in the rafters or attic areas. Chinese farmers like most people in that communist country are truly poor. They don't have access to reliable running water or sewage systems that would take human and animal waste away from living areas.

China is overpopulated making it much easier for the disease to spread quickly through the population. China has 70% fewer doctors per 100,000 people of population than any other developed country in the world, which means they cannot respond either preemptively or post appearance in a way that would help to limit the spread of the disease. Combine this with rampant poverty and squalid living conditions and the population is more susceptible to contracting these diseases.

The Chinese government is also slow to admit that there is a problem often lying about the existence or extent of the disease. They are also reticent to accept outside assistance that might slow the progress of the disease. They have to be secretive in order to keep up the facade that communism works.

Therein lies the problem: communism does not work. We have been fed the lies that in the utopian society promised by supporters of the communist manifesto that people would be equal, that living conditions would be perfect. Health care would be readily available because there would be more doctors and nurses and clinics. Food would be abundant because people would work happily to feed their fellow man. Factories would hum along making products that were available to everyone and were of high quality. We know the truth is to be just the opposite in all cases.

The outbreak of the coronavirus should give us an opportunity to educate those that want a communist or socialist society. It should be a teachable moment to prove that the system does not work: that it does not deliver on any promise that is made by those in power and is in fact one of the most unequal forms of government and economic systems that man has ever created. But those that promote the communist lifestyle cannot admit they are wrong, and thus the real lessons to be learned from this situation are not even discussed. But that's the America we live in today.

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