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... the first case. that doesn't tell you anything about the scale of the pandemic.

people thought sars would be a pandemic. bird flu. etc. That's why the very lab that you think leaked the virus exists in Wuhan. Because these sorts of outbreaks have been an ongiong thing in the region for a while now. You never actually know when the big one is gonna hit.

Yeah china did some shady **** early on because they were trying not to cause a panic and take too much of an economic hit during the trade war. But there's no reason to think they knew how bad this thing would be as early as November. By february they were well aware and were taking it serious. The whole world was well aware by March and yet we still failed to act accordingly in this country and in many others. China succesfiully combatted the virus in their country way more efficiently than we did here. So point the finger all you want but the fact is we are in no place to really talk any sorta **** about how another country managed this pandemic given what an utter failure our response was and stilll is. it's a year later and we STILL don't have our **** together.