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The Chinese government responded to Covid the same damned way they responded to SARS; with a cover up - no joke, they were arresting doctors. The biggest diffe
by yarg 3y ago
The Chinese government responded to Covid the same damned way they responded to SARS; with a cover up - no joke, they were arresting doctors.
The biggest difference was that we didn't have someone like Gro Harlem Bruntlant [1] to competently handle the WHO's response [2] and call them out for their bullshit.
Both China and Taiwan looked at the SARS outbreak, and made efforts to prevent it from happening again.
Taiwan set up a robust early warning system in order to detect and contain such outbreaks in the future.
China on the other hand, set out to inject themselves into the WHO to protect themselves from future embarrassment [3].
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland
[2] - https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2003-sars-outbreak-contained-worldwide https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2003-sars-outbreak-conta...
[3] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19771957/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19771957/