My Life on this planet.

China and America acting not very statesmanlike by blaming each other for the coronavirus Covid-19. President Xi of China , there is nothing to be ashamed about, illnesses can originate everywhere with exactly the same outcome: at the start the infection rate is too small to notice until it hits sufficient numbers of people. Inform your people about this and about your adequate response of quarantining regions and even the country so new cases dropped to nearly zero. Indeed, also other countries are hit hard. But, tell your diplomats to stop telling Chinese citizens that the virus was imported by the USA army (unless you show us evidence) as that may result in hate towards Americans. President Trump of the USA , stop listening to people who tell you your response was inadequate and too late as you acted earlier than many European countries that were forced to act after you closed your country's borders which is now followed by Europe. Anyone in power would be powerless aga...

The Chinese capital Beijing is at present covered with smog and people need mouth pieces and air purifiers. But not only China has problems, also many other cities all over the world, although there are places were air quality improves. Here a comparison between London in the past and Beijing now and it seems to show our impossibility to learn from the past to prevent disasters. Past: London It is unbelievable: in China the pollution is about as bad as it was in 1952 in London when that air pollution, known as the Great Smog , killed about 4,000 people within a month, mostly young and old people while 100,000 people became ill due to respiratory problems , resulting as some researchers say in a total of about 12,000 fatalities. This was due to a rare weather event (creating windless conditions) but this weather event only made clear what was known for many years but ignored, and that was the large amount of air pollution. First one believed it was one of many smog events (so n...