After reading this post, I don't know how the fuck to respond. Blind faith in American exceptionalism is dangerous (and quite frankly, part of the reason why the US fucked up their Coronavirus response so badly) and it scares me that the majority of people have such a warped view of China that they would SB such a completely inane post. Blindly lashing out at China won't fix the flaming dumpster fire clusterfuck of American problems that caused the extent of the Coronavirus outbreak in the US.
China is not responsible for the United States being the current epicenter of the global outbreak. The gross fucking incompetence of our government's response to it is. Just because China downplayed it initially doesn't mean the United States intelligence community didn't know exactly what was going on in China - they did know exactly what was going on and the threats they posed. Do you really think the CIA can be fooled by a few fake numbers coming out of China? Trump and other government officials had many, many, many chances to shut this thing down and had the intelligence to back it up but didn't because they were too enamored with the impeachment circus and blindly assumed that the United States would deal with it competently of people's confirmation bias and blind, unwarranted, faith in American exceptionalism.
If a fucking normie like me with no intelligence briefings realized that this would be a major issue on January 22nd, and the Texas grocery store chain H-E-B was more prepared than the US government, its pretty fucking obvious that the government dropped the ball.
Yes, the head of the WHO is a Chinese puppet clown, and yes China has benefited tremendously in the past from property transfer and IP theft. But that's neither here nor there.
The fact of the mattter is the US fucked up big time. The US had 2 months to prepare and the intelligence telling us why we needed to prepare, but did nothing except spread disinformation telling people not to wear masks (the only countries that have flattened the curve quickly are Asian countries where 100% of the population is wearing face masks) and that it's just the flu and as long as you wash your hands and sing the birthday song twice you'll be alright. If we didn't even set up temperature taking stations at the airport to measure people from China and Italy, it's completely fucking irrelevant that China didn't lock down properly. We didn't lock down properly, even though we had the playbook to do so. It's like America had the answers to the test they were taking in front of them, but instead chose to completely ignore them and make up our own answers, and now we're fucking surprised when we failed the test. American incompetence is not China's fault.
The spread of Coronavirus in the United States is due to complete and total failure of American institutions at every single level. Ranging from President Trump, who ignored months and months of intelligence briefings, to Congress, who took an excrutiangly long time to pass a joke of a stimulus bill, to the CDC who didn't have testing kits, to the states who waited weeks to institute shelter-in-place laws, to individuals who didn't take this seriously until it was too late and still went on their spring break trips. And I won't even touch how much our Kafkaseque nightmare of a healthcare system and lack of paid sick leave compounded the spread among our most vulnerable population.
China fucked up their initial response but got it under control using a very controlled and strict response. The United States had the intelligence to prevent the spread and could have learned from China's response, but instead choose to dilly dally around and wait two months until it was too late. Although the virus originated in China, the reason why the outbreak and recession in the US is so severe is because of the complete failure of our institutions at every, single, fucking level. Blaming China won't do shit, we need to fix the broken systems we have here in the United States. Wake the fuck up!
Early testing when we needed it (testing as of 3/17/20)
Current cases
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