It's all gone to shit

Create a need to fulfill it

In order to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, people are buying disposable surgical/medical face masks. I came across a pile of boxes in a department store today. They were made in China. (mad)

So opportunistic, if not predatory, Chinese are turning a nice profit from selling personal protection against a pandemic that originated in their squalid, barbarous shithole of a country. It seems that the communists have further developed the capitalist ideology of find a need and fill it into actually creating the need in the first place; and, in doing so, have finally beaten the capitalists at their own game!

image of a display of disposable face masks image of a box of disposable face masks declaring “made in China”
Proudly made in China: both plague and protection. And the populace meekly accepts it. I guess it's true, to quote Calvera in The Magnificent Seven: If God didn't want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep. (mask)