I don't think it's so much whataboutery as disappointment about the west. What you say about China is true, there's a one-party state that has done some brutal

I don't think it's so much whataboutery as disappointment about the west. What you say about China is true, there's a one-party state that has done some brutal things. The disappointment is that we in the west thought we had a better way to govern, but the state where the disease originated is doing quite well despite all those criticisms, and the states where people are supposedly free are the ones where people are locked up in their homes unable to celebrate Christmas with their families. We had a head start, we had sources that knew the truth about the disease, we'd seen smaller outbreaks before, and we have more money. It's also simplistic to blame China for the whole thing. "They could have saved 95% of lives" is not the whole ethical story. If you know you're living next to someone unreliable, you need to take your own precautions.