If you haven't watched the One Child Nation doc streaming on Amazon Prime on the CCP's one-child policy & the draconian surveillance, repression, sterilizations, & forced abortions that made it possible (& how much of the West turned a blind eye or even encouraged it), you must.
One village midwife said she didn't know how many babies she'd delivered, but had conducted 50,000-60,000 sterilizations & abortions. "I counted this out of guilt because I aborted & killed babies. Many I induced alive & killed. My hands trembling doing it. But I had no choice."
The village midwife says she no longer does sterilizations or abortions & now exclusively works with men & women with fertility problems because "I want to atone for my sins, for all the abortions & killings I did. What goes around comes around. There will be retribution for me."
Nanfu Wang (director & narrator born in China under CCP's one child policy): " 'We are fighting a population war' was a common slogan used by the government during the one child policy. China started a war against population growth, but it became a real war against its own ppl. "
As you watch it you also see the pervasiveness of the CCP's constant bombardment of propaganda, and how it impacted an entire society.
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while we're on the subject... most time travel movies don't consider a key element - that our galaxy, solar system, & Earth are hurtling through space - so even if you somehow travel back in time you'd certainly find yourself in the empty void of space where the Earth isn't yet.
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So ... long story short ... the whole thing about the WHO dismissing the Wuhan lab leak theory ... Tedros just quietly walked it back and says it should still be investigated after all!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
— Macbeth in "Macbeth" by Shakespeare...
"Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"
— David Foster Wallace