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Originally Posted by chubeyr1
I take issue with saying China did not have the experience to deal with something like this. They had Sars outbreak in 2003. Of every country out there they should be the most experienced to deal with this.
Yet they did the same thing they did with Sars. Deny it existed until it was too late.
What I do find comforting is the surrounding nations of China did learn. As soon as the word came out of a new virus outbreak in China they took immediate action. It is like they knew China lied before and expected it to happen again, and it did. Those countries have been the most successful in containing the virus.
Staying on topic though I find it difficult to debunk either theory right now. Either way I still hold China accountable for this outbreak.
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But that's the point, they didn't deny Covid, they confirmed it in January when they had a 2 hundred cases pretty much as they realised it existed, at each step of the way they let the world know what they had, you could make an argument that they could have assumed it would be spread person to person when they saw they had a flu like virus in week one but they didn't have proof at that time and proof needs patients to track, by the time they had 400 cases with clear proof one of them had never been to the wet market they announced it was now person to person.
With SARS the Chinese said nothing from November 2002 when they had their first case until February, almost 4 months, with Covid they told us a week after it started and while would agree they wanted to down play the severity of things, like all Governments have done, they have still been clear about what was happening, the fact that the rest of the world pretty much dropped the ball on their response isn't on the Chinese this time.