It seems that suppression is the only choice in this prisoner’s dilemma of right vs left media right now. Now I don’t like censorship. Chinese media censored

It seems that suppression is the only choice in this prisoner’s dilemma of right vs left media right now. Now I don’t like censorship. Chinese media censored the COVID-19 outbreak in the beginning, which cost lives. Right wing media in the west censored ‘liberal bias’ which cost lives. The left’s censorship here is a recognition that the other side doesn’t play “fair” and they’ll take their chances on this morally grey choice because lives are immediately at stake. It’s hard to even consider this a scandal. It’s hard to defend censorship here knowing that one might have a better chance of survival in a draconian Orwellian state that is modern China over the bastion of freedoms that is supposedly the United States. It’s disappointing.