Is this the catastrophe that could save the world?

The good news is that coronavirus lockdown has released latent artistic talent among ordinary people, with somewhat dubious results. The rest of the news is mixed. "China wants to grab the mantle of global leadership, except it's falling flat on its face -- the face it always tries so hard to save. Its propaganda has gone from pathetic to laughable," wrote Seema Sirohi. "Chinese companies that made socks were suddenly making masks, and protective gear and selling them to Europe and Asia -- a bad attempt by the regime to capture goodwill." "Chinese 'largesse' is nothing if not a second, more deadly pandemic of propaganda and fake goods in Huawei emblazoned boxes. The masks its state supported companies are selling -- not donating -- don't protect the doctors and its test kits produce false results." The Czech Republic paid $546,000 for 100,000 faulty test kits from China. Spain and the Netherlands suffered as well. As is usual, China has resorted to blatant lies, accusing others of racism for saying that the virus originated from Wuhan. "A prominent Chinese official has promoted a conspiracy theory that the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China -- and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought." "In another effort to skirt blame for the global coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese government has now pointed the finger at Italy as part of its ongoing propaganda campaign meant to sow disinformation about the outbreak." This is especially macabre given that Italy has recorded over 115,000 cases of coronavirus, of which 13,915 have died. This is also a lesson to the world that you do not hug a brutal uncivilised people who eat every living thing after slaughtering them in the most brutal fashion and have separated 500,000 Uyghur children from their parents to brainwash them. The total lockdown on the entire Hubei province, including Wuhan, isolated it from the outside world and allowed Beijing to manipulate figures. It is now believed that 42,000 people died in Wuhan and not the paltry 3,200 claimed by the inhuman regime. Even as the virus incapacitates and kills people the global economy has begun to contract already as all movement has effectively come to a halt. The recession may not reverse so quickly, wrote Peter S Goodman. "So long as human interaction remains dangerous, business cannot possibly return to normal." "The abrupt halt of commercial activity threatens to impose economic pain so profound and enduring in every region of the world at once that recovery could take years." Loss of earnings may lead to a global consumer default of debt, starting in China. Hopefully, the reduced demand will kill Chinese industry and destroy its threat of being the center of the global supply chain. Divine vengeance on a devouring atheist nation. How ironic.