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And they never shut down their own borders.
Wait, you mean like closing the own borders to the own people going outwards?
Literally nobody else has done that, either. Closing the borders has always meant closing them
to without. To
foreigners coming in. Literally nobody has closed the borders to prevent the own people from leaving. None. To expect that from China is just flat out
unreasonable. Besides, how long has it taken for even just those border closures to happen in Europe, and that
with China as a warning example? China didn't really act any slower than European or American countries there, and
they literally had no prior data on how the epidemic would unfold, no warning examples.
And the Chinese government has been pretty open about COVID19, all things being told. In fact, I very much remember how in the west their measures were seen as overreaction induced by hypercorrecting their mistakes during the SARS outbreak, where they had in fact obfuscated the situation. But that wasn't really the case here. As far as can be told, they always reported their numbers to the WHO correctly and in time. If
other countries don't react to that, that's on
them.
Really, all that remains is that yes, the epidemic came from China. But that's not China's fault. Once again:
Epidemics simply happen. They are literally natural disasters. Blaming China is just very blatantly looking for an outlet, looking for anything external to blame.
Instead of, you know, looking at the state of our own healthcare systems, the state of our own emergency reactions, the state of government competence (*cough*Trump*cough). What happened is simply that there was a natural disaster and everyone in Europe and America to some degree just utterly fucked up the response to that. Some more (USA under Trump) than others (Italy, France).