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> They were all hyped up that was China's fault If I recall correctly, China's fault refers to how they failed to contain the epidemic due to their initial app
by nuerow 5y ago
> They were all hyped up that was China's fault
If I recall correctly, China's fault refers to how they failed to contain the epidemic due to their initial approach to the problem, which consisted of censoring and gaslighting reports from doctors in the field and intentionally failing to act on it before it spread.
Also, it didn't helped the fact that the CCP's propaganda machine started pushing propaganda pinning the blame of the COVID-19 outbreak on Italy and Spain when their failure to contain the Wuhan epidemic turned to a pandemic.
- nerdponx 5y agoIn the US, "it's China's fault" was also a great line for then-president Trump, who got some of his early political points (and notoriety) by being openly anti-China, and whose administration blatantly failed to manage the virus and its arrival in the US. So it played into his existing worldview and helped deflect responsibility away from his own administration for its failure.
- cm2187 5y agoThat, plus the original leak. Whether there was any source of US funding that made it to some research done in the Wuhan lab or not, letting a virus escape is first and foremost the fault of those running the lab. Then there is the additional question of whether the virus was the result of gain of function research.