I don't agree with the second one. China tried to silence every doctor that was talking about the disease in its early stage.
They also clearly lied about their numbers in order to say that they were dealing with the disease better than anyone else. They probably are doing better than a lot of others countries since their numbers are even good if you multiply them by ten, but still.
Lastly, they had been advised by the scientific community that their practices regarding animal market could lead to exactly this. I'm not saying that any of this is directly their fault, or that they did it on purpose, but they didn't do anything to prevent that from happening.
Overall, I'm not saying that China is the worst country when it comes to dealing with the disease. But they did their fair share of shitty things, and they shouldn't be presented as a model of things to do.
Aye. There's also that, well, being a totalitarian regime, they were able to enforce mandates at a level that most other governments couldn't possibly imagine. Turns out that, while totalitarian regimes have a massive fuckton of downsides, being able to enforce their will to extreme lengths does have occasional upsides.
You want to look at success stories against COVID, look at Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, nations that couldn't go to totalitarian lengths, because those were nations that succeeded despite, well, not being allowed to go to any extreme possible to stamp the virus out.
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u/thenopebig Jan 02 '21
I don't agree with the second one. China tried to silence every doctor that was talking about the disease in its early stage.
They also clearly lied about their numbers in order to say that they were dealing with the disease better than anyone else. They probably are doing better than a lot of others countries since their numbers are even good if you multiply them by ten, but still.
Lastly, they had been advised by the scientific community that their practices regarding animal market could lead to exactly this. I'm not saying that any of this is directly their fault, or that they did it on purpose, but they didn't do anything to prevent that from happening.
Overall, I'm not saying that China is the worst country when it comes to dealing with the disease. But they did their fair share of shitty things, and they shouldn't be presented as a model of things to do.