> Contrast to the incredible lab work of African scientists when Omicron first came out. And yet, if hindsight is 20/20 those South African scientists probably

> Contrast to the incredible lab work of African scientists when Omicron first came out. And yet, if hindsight is 20/20 those South African scientists probably should have kept their mouth shut since the entire world (briefly, I'll grant) responded to the open sharing of information by essentially embargoing the country - while China remained in a pretty positive light through early COVID receiving praise for aggressive lock downs and quickly produced procedures to help try and stem the spread of "the disease that just happened to hit them first". You can say that one of those parties acted in a way we'd like to see more of in the future - but the world's reaction rewarded (or was neutral at least) China and punished South Africa. It sucks but it's true.