I don't understand how someone arrives at this position without starting off with an axe to grind and looking for facts that fit. Do you think that a liberal c

I don't understand how someone arrives at this position without starting off with an axe to grind and looking for facts that fit. Do you think that a liberal capitalist country would have managed to contain this? How, in that case, do you explain the utter failure of most liberal capitalist countries to actually contain it? Do you think that if China had their act together they would have been able to squash it in the crib and prevent it spreading anywhere else? How do you reconcile that with the fact that Seattle imported its first case on January 15, on a flight from Wuhan, and that this person must have been infected days before that? Japan got it on January 3. The first case in Thailand was hospitalised on January 8. Do you think that Wuhan should have been sealed off that early? Do you think that the failure to do that is a failure of authoritarian communism to which liberal capitalism is immune? Evidence from the "free world's" response to this suggests otherwise, and that they are even more hesitant than China to put significant containment measures in place. You may respond that China suppressed information about the outbreak, and it appears that they did. What difference did it make in the end though? The cat was already out of the bag.