Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
I don’t think doctors are exaggerating red death to get more money for the hospitals. Maybe they, collectively, might be over attributing red death as a secondary cause of death. But if some 80 year old comes into the hospital with a low O2, lung problems and a fever, it’s far more likely than not that they have coronavirus, and if they die, it was a cause of death.