Democracy was already under siege from Hungary's far-right government. Now the pandemic has provided Viktor Orbán’s government with the perfect excuse to pass a law ratcheting up repression to new levels.
There's no "China virus". Neither China's factory farming nor its authoritarianism set it apart from the rest of the world. China is a vital component of the world capitalist system, both the rival and the collaborator of the West; and it's that system of capitalism that created and spread COVID-19.
