Price of dealing with China unacceptable

We wanted everything to be made in China because we wanted things cheap, and now China has produced a commodity we couldn't refuse - a virus, free of charge, but costing us our lungs and livelihood.

The foraging bat and slaughtered sloth from which many researchers say this virus likely came acknowledge no ethnicity and the human into whom the virus jumped was innocent enough, as were the thousands of other humans who fell dead in the virus's wake. Yet the wet market which may have spawned this pandemic was Chinese and the government which delayed sounding the alarm until the virus had gotten off the world's airliners and cruise ships is headquartered in Beijing. That government now is blaming American soldiers for letting loose the disease in their city. China lies.

Radioactivity has no nationality either, but we don't doubt the explosion in Chernobyl was the Soviet Union's fault. The consequences of that catastrophe are as nothing compared to those of the coronavirus. Civilization is upturned; industries have come to a screeching halt; rights of citizens withheld; personal accounts and national treasuries equally decimated.

When all this is over - assuming CNN does not endorse the Anti-Christ as its solution to Trump's shortcomings - we must ask the question: "Is China worth it?"

Beijing assuredly will refuse to pay reparations for the financial carnage caused by this virus. Beijing will deny culpability. Beijing will dare the rest of the world to make its own sneakers and solar panels.

I, in the future, will only buy American - if I ever get out of my house and if there is a future.

Patricia Gbur

Wood Dale