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When did it become a USA vs. China issue?
I know the media are trying to paint this as a east vs. west "they started it"..."no you did"
Governments lie. China suppressed the severity of this for a long time. I'm not sure we should be trusting the news from a communist country. They're about as reliable as Russia's "we're all sweet here. No issue"
So it's just a gang up on China issue and the USA shouldn't be held to the same standard? Your post was critical of China and I was pointing out that the USA is deeply flawed on this issue as well.
There is no denying that the Chinese made an enormous hash of things early on by trying to ignore and then cover up the problem, but once they realised the gravity of the issue and that they would suffer damage to their international reputation they realised they had to come clean. The WHO has been on the ground throughout that time and has validated the Chinese numbers.
The USA on the other hand as at the end of last week had tested fewer people overall than South Korea does in a day, or so they think. They don't actually have a way of accurately reporting total test numbers. There is also credible evidence that Trump wanted the CDC not to test people in January because positive tests would damage him politically. The real US numbers could be up to 100 times higher than those they are reporting.
Finally, having been to China many times over the past 28 years I can tell you they are communist in name only these days. Either way, as the debacle in the US demonstrates, free capitalist societies are equally capable of serving up misinformation.