The Chinese Regime Must Pay for the Pandemic, Avoiding the Winter Olympics Solves Nothing

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is applauded by top officials as he arrives for the closing session of the regime’s rubber-stamp legislative conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on May 28, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

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Aldous Huxley once compared “a walk in the country” to a religious-like pilgrimage. “To commune with the fields and waters, the woodlands and the hills,” he wrote, “is to commune, according to our modern and northern ideas, with the visible manifestations of the Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe.” Now, thanks to the most recent variant of SARS-CoV-2, the Delta variant, that commune is, yet again, under attack. The wisdom Huxley spoke of has been replaced by the “wisdom” of the experts. In Australia, such experts are testing the limits of human patience.