Why can't we have nice things? Now a thread about certifications is turned into a patriotic US Chinese shitfest between usual suspects. I want to talk about certifications damn it.
Sigh.
Does anyone remember the Internet Protocol evil bit? What we need is an IP 'patriot' bit, then national border routers could just drop those packets and all the people who think that their country is the greatest, the only true, pure, country and all the rest are scum couldn't be heard outside their own borders and wouldn't have to, indeed wouldn't be able to, interact with all those grubby second and third rate foreigners.
Also at the moment it would prevent them getting balanced, accurate, nuanced information about the current disease threat from Covid-19 from outside sources, and would limit them to patriotic propaganda. The lack of information on how to properly and proportionately protect themselves might have a salutory evolutionary effect.