How come #Hitler is a bigger #villain than the #British#monarchy, when Hitler invaded only 11 #countries, while the British #empire invaded 90 percent of the globe, that is, over 170 countries, and caused multiple times the massacre than the #Nazis did!
Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. ...
And if that is the case (not saying it is; i'm still not 100% convinced of the lab leak theory) then it backfired spectacularly as China took the most serious measures of any country on earth to keep its people safe. No other country managed to maintain Zero Covid for as long as China did.
Over 1.2 million people died in the US. One third of their entire population was infected, potentially suffering long term health damage. In China it was just over 5,200 deaths, not even one hundredth of the US numbers with a population more than four times that of the US.
If that to you says "lax safety precautions" then we are not speaking the same language.
The fact that you ridicule the lack of evidence and imply that this indicates China is covering something up is telling. If there was evidence you would say they are guilty. If there is no evidence then they are also guilty. That is called an unfalsifiable orthodoxy. There is nothing that can convince you otherwise because you have already decided what you want to believe and you don't care what the evidence or lack thereof indicates.
By that same logic i could claim that the lack of evidence just "proves" that the US are very good at covering their tracks and erasing evidence of a bioweapon attack. Do you see how that logic is bad because it can be used to justify virtually any conclusion?
Why is it always the Chinese government that supposedly hides things? How about it's actually the US government that has been hiding the truth all along?
Be that as it may let's put the speculation aside and stick to the facts:
The fact is that China responded to the best of their abilities to a novel and highly contagious disease, which may or may not have been released from a US funded lab. It is objectively demonstrable (the stats prove it) that China had the world's most successful Covid response. It is not China's fault that the rest of the world is so incompetent or indifferent to the wellbeing of their citizens.
Were a few mistakes made in the initial confusion when nobody yet knew exactly what they were dealing with? Probably. It's almost unavoidable to make mistakes when first encountering a situation you have never faced before. That doesn't imply any kind of deliberate conspiracy. The real test is how did each country deal with it once it was understood how serious the situation was.
The ironic notion was that Covid came to punish the election of Trump, and so would the next pandemic. But Covid came towards the end of Trumps presidency, even if you include the last months of 2019 where maybe there was a case or two already.
When looking at the graph of infections we see two major waves. The first being Winter 2020/2021 so when Trump was leaving and Biden was getting into office. By then it was considered the third wave, but the March/April and Juli/August waves have been very small in comparison. Then the next big wave came in August/September 2021 and then the craziest winter was 2021/2022 and the last big wave in summer 2022.
Looking at the graph of deaths it is a bit different because the 2020 March/April wave hit very badly, which indeed fell into Trumps reign and could have looked slightly less bad if he had enacted different policies. But the majority of deaths and the worst death waves were winter 2020/2021 so split half half Biden and Trump and August 2021 to March 2022, which is fully in Bidens term.
It is just misinformation to claim a link between Trump and Covid without claiming the same link between Biden and Covid. In total it remains that no one did a good job at mitigating Covid. And frankly the only country that claimed to have mitigated Covid during the first waves was China with an extremely authoritarian crackdown. But then when vaccines were available they still ended up getting a major blow by Covid and just lied about their statistics, so even having postponed the hit until vaccines were available wasn't the winning strategy either.
And nowhere in the world did countries fare significantly better or worse than in the US. All the political leaders did a poor job and it is dangerous to focus on Trump alone. Trump sure as hell was a terrible president and is a huge asshole and criminal, but that cannot be the reason to associate Covid with him.
Sort countries by deaths per 1M population. Aside from a lot of countries that didnt monitor Covid related deaths or infectins properly because of structural factors there is no relationship establishable between Covid strategy and number of deaths. How many people died in a country probably mostly related to the age of the population, prevalence of smoking, pollution and other factors for respiratory issues.
German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab' ( www.bbc.com )
Germany's foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. ...
First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana ( www.nytimes.com )