Cause it embarrasses them. They didn’t create the virus in a lab, but their wet markets were always a risk and Covid put the international spot light on it.
That and they were suppressing their infection rates and death rates, but just about every nation was doing that. Did you see the numbers in Japan spike after they formally announced their Olympics would be postponed?
There was a whole mess with that cruise ship docked in Japan being counted as a separate case so it didn’t boost Japan’s confirmed case numbers, probably to save face before the Olympics. Looking back now it was only mental gymnastics.
I think they could’ve earned a lot of global respect by freely publishing anything and everything they knew about the virus and collaborating internationally to find a cure.
It’s a bit disappointing that China wasn’t the first to a vaccine, and I wonder if they would’ve been if they had just been more open and transparent about sharing information.
Cause it embarrasses them. They didn’t create the virus in a lab, but their wet markets were always a risk and Covid put the international spot light on it.
That and they were suppressing their infection rates and death rates, but just about every nation was doing that. Did you see the numbers in Japan spike after they formally announced their Olympics would be postponed?
There was a whole mess with that cruise ship docked in Japan being counted as a separate case so it didn’t boost Japan’s confirmed case numbers, probably to save face before the Olympics. Looking back now it was only mental gymnastics.
I think they could’ve earned a lot of global respect by freely publishing anything and everything they knew about the virus and collaborating internationally to find a cure.
It’s a bit disappointing that China wasn’t the first to a vaccine, and I wonder if they would’ve been if they had just been more open and transparent about sharing information.
What China thinks will get them global respect and what will actually get them respect are very different things.