China lockdown entire cities and closed its borders, but it didnt tell the west just how dangerous covid-19 really was, china bad
(in my country in the first 4 months of the pandemic they were saying masks arent needed too, only to say a few weeks ago that they always said that masks are necessary)
I said a long time ago when the Anti-China sentiment started ramping up that anything the media can't ascribe to the CCP or Communism they will attribute it to "Chinese culture" to explain it to their audiences in a kind soft racism. I keep being right about it, and it sucks.
My favorite example of this is "saving face". Like yeah, only Asian people do things with the motive of avoiding humiliation, people from Western cultures just love being publicly owned.
sometimes I wonder...
Just heard an NPR interview on the radio today that was exactly this. Basically saying that Chinese culture is more collective, and that the communists were lucky they had such people to "rule over" or something like that.
Yeah because it's much easier to exploit people who care about the future of their communities than it is to exploit people who will gladly allow the meadow on the other side of town to be bulldozed if it means they get a Red Mango closer to their house
Our competition with one another for everything is the most obviously exploitable thing wtf
Good foresight. Although it's amazing just how much they can make about communism [see blobjim's comment].
In the same interview, they said that it was almost certain that asymptomatic people wouldn't transmit the virus.
And I'm not upset they didn't know things early on, it's just the bravado over-confidence in the "Western method" of avoiding asking the populace to do anything and just letting the experts figure it out. They bent the limited data to their notion that something as goofy and paranoid as everyone masking up must be pointless.