There's some parts of the covid response that should be critically examined. I doubt anyone here is gonna say the west's response was perfect. The initial lie of insisting masks DON'T prevent spread - because they wanted to prevent a run on masks - was actively harmful to later attempts to get people to mask by mandate. The US blob saying vaccines don't work in Philipines because they didn't want the PRCs vaccine to be successful in Philipines should be talked about.
Like, there should be some kind of formal hearings on this if any of the west was serious about pandemic preparedness and management. It would probably end up as a joke and we wouldn't learn fuck all at tye end of them, but it sure would be nice to actually find out the truth and figure out which countries response was the most effective at keeping people alive - including "enemies" like China or Vietnam or whatever, if what they did prevented death we should learn from that.
There's some parts of the covid response that should be critically examined. I doubt anyone here is gonna say the west's response was perfect. The initial lie of insisting masks DON'T prevent spread - because they wanted to prevent a run on masks - was actively harmful to later attempts to get people to mask by mandate. The US blob saying vaccines don't work in Philipines because they didn't want the PRCs vaccine to be successful in Philipines should be talked about.
Like, there should be some kind of formal hearings on this if any of the west was serious about pandemic preparedness and management. It would probably end up as a joke and we wouldn't learn fuck all at tye end of them, but it sure would be nice to actually find out the truth and figure out which countries response was the most effective at keeping people alive - including "enemies" like China or Vietnam or whatever, if what they did prevented death we should learn from that.