Racism - specifically the utter unwillingness to believe in Chinese deaths as real, or to listen and learn from East Asian experience - has played a big goddamn role in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary covid-19 deaths.
When I say 'believe in Chinese deaths as real,' I mean to take the suffering and loss of Wuhan as something catastrophic and imminent, as - eventually, partially - we did Italy, rather than as something far away that couldn't happen to us.
And when it comes to the dismissal of East Asian experience, I don't just mean the refusal to learn from masks and centralized isolation and other verifiable on-the-ground successes, but the inanity of 'their culture is different' takes.
The share of blame attributable to the CCP for its initial cover-up - and its threats against other nations not to institute travel bans - is significant. But it's smaller than the *months and months* of failure U.S. leadership has inflicted on its own country.
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