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Doctors and civilians tried to sound the alarm that something was going on, and were silenced until it was too late. To their credit, the CCP fired the Wuhan of
by nexuist 7y ago
Doctors and civilians tried to sound the alarm that something was going on, and were silenced until it was too late. To their credit, the CCP fired the Wuhan officials who presumably silenced those people, but it is still their responsibility for fostering a culture where towing the line and hiding problems until they cannot be hidden is acceptable for leadership positions.
- jennyyang 7y agoThere's nothing to credit. Everyone was in on the silencing, the CCP only used those officials as scapegoats. Everyone on all levels of politics was keeping this a secret and hoping it would go away.
- cma 7y agoThere are several articles about he CDC being silenced in various ways on early measures because they would hurt the economy.
- visarga 7y agoYou raise a high bar for China but if the virus appeared in many other countries the global outcome would have been much worse.