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Does anyone seriously believe that COVID-19 wouldn’t have spread if the CCP didn’t briefly attempt to cover it up?

People/govs don’t take pandemics seriously until they’re pandemics. Assuming the US would’ve acted better w/ more warning is fanciful.

nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/…
What does this even mean? There’s a lot of evidence that the 1918 pandemic started in Kansas, how would that have been a policy failure for the US at the time?
Many countries, including the US, have severe travel & immigration restrictions on China. Trump has raised tariffs (that Americans pay). They’re the most closed off they’ve been since joining the WTO.
“The US started a trade war with China and then a pandemic struck. Coincidence?” is about the level of argument in this piece.
Where does this guy live?
I think China is freer today than it was under Mao. Not as free as it should be, for sure, but this is just conservatism untethered from history. Don’t forget that it was westerners like John Tanton who invented & pushed the idea of a one-child policy.
Ask @MarkSKrikorian about John Tanton if this reference baffles you. He’s the founder of Mark’s think-tank and most other nativist orgs.
The CCP is evil. It’s killed tens of millions of people, currently has more than a million people in concentration camps, & subjects its citizens to horrific levels of authoritarianism. But let’s not a assign it magical powers.
“The global-minded globalists in all of the bad globalists places were being too globalist.”
A few paragraphs earlier, the globalists were to blame for “letting China in.” Now globalism is good? Trump has attacked these international institutions in recent years more effectively than China has.
What about that vaunted special relationship between the US & UK that we hear so much about?
The US would be poorer and weaker too. Trade is a mutually-beneficial voluntary exchange, after all.
“Peculiar” is one way to put it.
China banned all emigration and travel from Hubei, including going abroad.
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