Xi, who had absolute power, hid that fire from his people ( and the rest of the world).
Trump did not. He had not the power to, if he wanted.
the numbers coming out of China as far back as mid January told us enough.
Even though they were minimized and falsified.
At least 100 here on FR could see that fire.
And we’re not paid in that profession.
“Xi, who had absolute power, hid that fire from his people ( and the rest of the world).”
One of the things that’s been pointed out is that we often know what’s going on in China, more than people living there, even ‘connected’ people there - due to their ‘Great Firewall’. The people in Wuhan were being systematically blocked from information which may have helped them prior to Jan 23...we managed to get some information.
But in the end, it didn’t matter - the ‘just the flu, bro’ bunch pretty much discounted everything out of China and figured our oceans would, somehow, protect us, just as they figured the same for most of 1941...until December.