[maratd]

This sort of what-about-ism doesn't address the core point. That top-down command and control systems are vulnerable to precisely this type of outcome. Providing a single western example of a much milder localized circumstance doesn't address anything except deflect attention from the main point.

Flint was a local event. This is consuming all of China.

[basch]

I was addressing "This isn't a new problem and it's why we have converged to a different system in most of the West."

You did answer my question though. I dont agree with the "it cant happen here because we have a different system" angle of my parent.