Respect to the Chinese government for achieving that ratio with a one child policy in effect and all. There must be a peoples decree against sausage parties written into the legislation. With all those brainwashed women bobbing their docile little heads I can just see Xi standing in a dark corner, twisting that rotund steam bun of a face into a knowing pervy sneer.
He is stupid but it is impossible to believe a plea of ignorance. I think he's a spineless pussy sellout who says whatever he thinks he has to say to get a very particular type of person to like him. That's the path of least resistance in his world, and what he does to eke the tiniest sliver of advantage for himself. I wouldn't let him off the hook so as to say "forgive him for he knows not what he's done".
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada will closely monitor the safety of the vaccine once it is on the market and will not hesitate to take action if any safety concerns are identified
"We were pretty much told not even to look at it and just stamp it on through but we'll pay attention in case you willing idiot guinea pigs start dropping like flies"
Owen Benjamin hits like a single malt scotch. Not for everyone. He nails it in areas that people are too scared to talk about, but like everybody else, he's wrong about some things. I don't know what those things are, mind you. He straddles the line between genius, insanity, and somehow simultaneously, adolescent stupidity.
Governments aren't really trying to do any of those things though. If you think they're even trying to save the world, especially from problems they invented, you're not being cynical enough.