The retoric that china had 'better response' is strong there. Again, like tin square, that is public and more or less ceded ground. Even if that was not the case, why would they not want more control over the conversation?
Pretty much every country has had a better response to covid-19 than the US. I think you're seeing what you want to see. There is plenty of anti-CCP/China sentiment on reddit.
It's just simply not true that China covered up the existence of the virus for months.
On December 16, 2019, the first patient was admitted to a hospital. This is more or less China's first reasonable opportunity to understand that there was a new disease.
And as someone who was closely following this before the US started to take action, we dropped the ball extremely badly.
Even New York was going with its just a bad flu line for a while.
This is solely our fault in our mismanagement. State governments dropped the ball. Federal government dropped the ball.
They all immediately scapegoatd China because we decided they're going to be the 20s enemy. The 10s were Iran and middle east. The 00s were Islamic terrorists. Maybe the 30s will be India or Brazil.
From the outside looking over, I would say the US did the same. I am not from either country, but I can tell you that most of our cases came from American travelers, at the same time your president was saying there were few to no cases. That was months after the US got it's first recorded case. We got one case from Wuhan, and we got 29 from the US. I know it was not the general US opinion, and I was personally well aware of the state of things in the US from the word of other US citizens. But maybe it's good to know how the US projects out to other countries through it's ambassadors.
The first U.S. cases were found to have come here via Europe, but we ended up with plenty of cross pollination directly from China via travelers and contaminated goods (the first cases in North Carolina for instance involved people who had packages of things from China they purchased on Amazon, these people had no contact with travelers).
> Which country restricts their own citizens from travelling in a quarantine?
China. They were literally locking Wuhan residents in their apartments, blocking off all roadways out of the city with military, but allowing Wuhan elites to jet-set all over the world (but not anywhere within China) _during the lockdown._
There's no other data available, but based on what's publicly available every country looks better than US. There are 300,000 people dead, 100,000 is from US.
