The Chinese government is clearly not great, but I see blaming them for covid as a scapegoat for the massively bungled response in the US. If China did a good

The Chinese government is clearly not great, but I see blaming them for covid as a scapegoat for the massively bungled response in the US. If China did a good job instead, it's still be unlikely to have contained the outbreak entirely within it's borders. It's still each countries own responsibility to protect it's people, and the US had no one to blame there except itself. Sure, China deserves some blame, but I think saying that it's the "real" story is dangerously understating the massive, ridiculous, incompetence of the US response.