[president]

I think most people can agree that no one country has done a stellar job (including the US) to contain and mitigate the virus but given that China was the first to be hit, it gets a larger share of the blame for letting it spread to the rest of the world. If you look at the timeline of the events that transpired in China since December [1], it shows a clear pattern of ignorance and favoring politics over public health. You know things have gone completely wrong when you decide to arrest doctors that have called out the disease. Anybody that says "China has done the best to control this disease" is either a CCP shill or massively uninformed or misled by propaganda. Remember, the only news we get out of China comes from state-sanctioned media.

[1] https://wuhanmemo.com/?page_id=230929

[dang]

You've been using HN repeatedly for nationalistic flamewar, which is not a legit use of the site. We've had to ask you more than once to stop doing this since long before Covid-19. Please stop now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: turns out you've been using HN pretty much exclusively for that. That is a bannable offense as the site guidelines make clear. I'm not going to ban you now, but if you don't stop then we will.

[robocat]

> no one country has done a stellar job

Taiwan have done a stellar job. Pre-prepared, acted quickly (starting on 31st of Dec), and have got the results to show they were doing it right. For more information, see: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

Edit: This also shows up the lie that China’s suppression of information was the critical factor in delaying everyone’s actions: Taiwan had the information and acted, it is just that other countries chose not to act on the information they had. Li Wenliang (one of the whistleblower doctors) on 30 December he “sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection. Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter.”

[tasogare]

Yes, I noticed too that Taiwan did an amazing job at protecting its citizens. It’s even more remarkable because of how close geographically, culturally and economically it is to China.

[guerrilla]

Hows South Korea doing? I saw they did a lot of tests compared to the rest of us.

[csnover]

They seem to be getting things under control. [0]

[0] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#south_korea

[Jommi]

Thanks fort he link, seems well researched, even though it has a clear anti China bias.