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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
Actually by lying to the WHO who in turn lied to their member countries, it pretty much IS their fault for the slow response by the rest of the world.
I do agree that there were people who knew how bad this would get, but because the borders couldn't be closed in time, this was pretty much inevitable. China missed the first step in potential containment (that unprecedented response should have happened in December, not late January when it was too late) and the second step (don't pressure countries to keep their borders open).
We had 2 chances to prevent this, but the CCP either wanted everyone to suffer with them so as not to "lose face" or seriously thought it wouldn't be an issue worth "losing face" over. So here we are.
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I am sure you already know this, but when the first signs of the pandemic are showing, Hubei
Lianghui is happening. Historically, whenever
Lianghui happens, negative news will be suppressed locally so all the local officials look good. Everyone in China is aware of this but things usually go well enough for no one to care for a bureaucratic event like this.
They thought they can sweep it under the rug with this one to look good(not "lose face") at
Lianghui, well we all know that went. I believe SARS also went like this.
This has raised voices in China where they should either move the dates to outside of a time frame where epidemic usually occur, or just cancel them altogether because they are pretty useless for obvious reasons.