{"id":1461,"date":"2009-05-18T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/global-times-guilt\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:56:07","slug":"global-times-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/global-times-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"global times guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.huanqiu.com\/\">Global Times<\/a> is the voice of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The advanced health care infrastructure in the US has ensured that life has not been interrupted by the outbreak, at least for the moment.\u00a0 But the impact of swine flue can be disastrous for countries without proper preventive systems.\u00a0 Few countries can afford the expensive healthcare system the US enjoys. . . .More protective actions in the US would be for America&#8217;s own good and would benefit the rest of the world as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>It would seem the expensive healthcare system Americans &#8220;enjoy&#8221; serves America&#8217;s &#8220;own good&#8221; better than a guilt-trip from the Global Times.\u00a0 This is a teaching-moment for all those countries who &#8220;enjoy&#8221; socialized medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_6986a.jpg\" title=\"Global Times Editorial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_6986a.jpg\" alt=\"Global Times Editorial\" height=\"311\" width=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;We have not yet understood that to subsume our world under the concept of &#8220;capitalism&#8221; is already to enter into the dichotomous worldview of ideology.&#8221; Alain Besancon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Times is the voice of the Chinese government. &#8220;The advanced health care infrastructure in the US has ensured that life has not been interrupted by the outbreak, at least for the moment.\u00a0 But the impact of swine flue can be disastrous for countries without proper preventive systems.\u00a0 Few countries can afford the expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-care","7":"category-punitive-liberalism","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}