Professor John V Walsh, MD in San Francisco: Quotes: “For the Chinese officials, virus control comes first. The people’s lives, well-being and dignity come much later.”
She is referring here to a Zero covid policy that is saving peoples lives by the hundreds of thousands. How can one have well being and dignity if one is dead? jw
“The government has the help of a vast army of community workers who carry out the policy with zeal and hordes of online nationalists who attack anyone raising grievances or concerns. The tragedies in Xi’an have prompted some Chinese people to question how those enforcing the quarantine rules can behave like this and to ask who holds ultimate responsibility.”
‘“It’s very easy to blame the individuals who committed the banality of evil,” a user called @IWillNotResistIt wrote on Weibo, the Chinese social media platform. “If you and I become the screws in this gigantic machine, we might not be able to resist its powerful pull either.”
““The banality of evil” is a concept Chinese intellectuals often invoke in moments like Xi’an. It was coined by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, who wrote that Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, was an ordinary man who was motivated by “an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement.””
How shall we respond? The article is a complete inversion of the truth.
Despicable. (On top of everything else it demeans and cheapens the lessons of the Holocaust.)
Johnson Choi Biz 