{"id":12418,"date":"2020-06-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:45:47","slug":"china-isnt-letting-a-pandemic-go-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/china-isnt-letting-a-pandemic-go-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"China Isn\u2019t Letting a Pandemic Go to Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Floyd&nbsp;was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality turned violent and rioting ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. is torn apart over the national mass quarantine. Liberal blue states accused red opened-up states of recklessly endangering national health by allowing their populations to go back to work before the virus has left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red states countered that blue states were hypocritical in wanting federal money to subsidize their locked-down residents while expecting other states to generate needed federal revenue. They also contended that there was no longer scientific evidence to justify the lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nationwide protests and rioting have inadvertently adjudicated the issue: States cannot jail the law-abiding barber who wears a mask at work but allow the arsonist without a mask to roam the streets, burning with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is mounting evidence that an array of federal officials had plotted to disrupt Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign and his presidential transition, leaving Trump supporters furious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-pandemic-china-beijing-becoming-authentically-belligerent\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review George Floyd&nbsp;was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ei","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12457,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-states-go-wild\/","url_meta":{"origin":12418,"position":0},"title":"When States Go Wild","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In past rioting, over the last 60 years, mayors, police chiefs, and governors restored law and order. 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