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Is it really true that we, Canada, more precisely the Canadian government, has received a shipment of faulty medical masks from the Communist regency of China?

Surely this cannot be. China? Sending our country defective medical devices during a global pandemic? Unthinkable.

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It is now a truth so obvious as to be received as a commonplace, that the Chinese government — to be always and emphatically distinguished from the Chinese people; do not ever confound that harrowing authoritarian government with the people it ruthlessly rules — misled the world, all 195 countries of it, on the pandemic.

The Chinese government misled the world, all 195 countries of it

Misled about its origins, lied about its dangers, punished those of its own brave doctors who warned about it, and was so audacious in its duplicity as to declare, via its Center for Disease Control and Prevention, that “the risk of human-to-human transmission is low.”

This is worth an emphasis. The Chinese dictatorship not only lies to the world, it punishes those of its own citizens who tell the truth. This is speech-corruption that even Orwell never contemplated.

The Chinese regime put the health of the world at risk. As a secondary consequence, its lies (the absolutely correct, even clinical term) and misdirections have wounded, to extremis, the economies of almost every country on the planet.