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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan
China's suppression of the existence outbreak absolutely reflects poorly on them.
But when experts world wide started sounding the alarm mid January and early February they were mostly ignored.
I think history will judge America's initial head in the sand response harshly.
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A handful of leading scientists did say "y'know guys - things are looking a little weird in China..." and the entire world said "yeah, but you gotta give me more to go with here before we hit the big red button..."
Because of course that's what governments did. That's what they SHOULD do.
Now if you take those handful of leading scientists and then have China standing behind them going "HOLY SHIT!!! WE
REALLY ****ED THIS UP AND LET US SHOW YOU HOW!!!"
I suspect the reaction would be far different.
Do not for one second even contemplate giving China a pass for this. The global response to this thing should be little more than a post-script at the back of the novel on the staggering incompetence and mendacity of China.
All nations reacted similarly because they weren't given the corroborating evidence necessary to justify aggressive response. And they weren't given that evidence because China is a lying shithole run by duplicitous murderers.