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> China had an obligation to its citizens and to the world. The CCP decided they didn't care if the virus went worldwide. That's homicide, and they should pay for making people whole again.

I'm no fan of the CCP, but this is ridiculous. In your hypothetical world where China takes action to prevent this, what would they have done? The common reaction from public health professionals to the Hubei lockdown was that it was unprecedented and was unlikely to work (e.g. [1]). Are you saying that it's reasonable to expect them to have done more, sooner?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/unprecedented-chinese-...



Permanent ban on wet markets before December first 2019 would have been a good start. A media campaign to get people to stop buying into "traditional Chinese medicine" would have been good too. Make them use that propaganda machine for something good for once.

No excuses for this one. China could have done something and not only choose not to, but actively attempted to surpress information about the disease. They're lying about every number related to this crisis. They are manipulating the WHO. This is a country which claims that "only" a "few hundred died" in tiananmen square. The 50 cent army actively brigades many types of anti-CCP dissent at home and abroad.

Yes. It's reasonable for them to have done more sooner. They had an obligation to do more sooner.


> In your hypothetical world where China takes action to prevent this, what would they have done?

Why did they ask for international travel to remain open while simultaneously limiting internal travel?

Why did they threaten to stop shipments of the medicines they manufacture?

Why did they silence the whistleblowers?

Why are they telling their people the virus originated from the US and Italy?

Why did they decline aid or let other health organizations put boots on the ground to measure things?

Why are they strong-arming the WHO? And why did it take so long for the WHO to declare this as a pandemic?

Why are there more cremated remains than their official death toll?

I'm not imagining anything. I'm looking at their actions.

> Are you saying that it's reasonable to expect them to have done more, sooner?

Yes.

They had a better understanding of the virus than the rest of the world and they owed us complete transparency.


We had an understanding of the virus and the dangers. Not only that we had real examples of it spreading outside of China. We chose to do nothing.




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