I'd like to see this issue less politicized, and treated more like a matter of public health than like a political hot potato, with political sides trying to score points against their opponents.
These two links might provide some interesting food for thought, to decrease the blame game:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6489/395
The above link shows how little was able to be accomplished both domestically in China, and internationally, with travel restrictions. By the time even the earliest governmental restrictions were implemented, it was already too late. There was no way to do anything any earlier, when the virus wasn't even known.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-emerged-asia/
The above link shows an expert opinion, saying that it is looking more and more likely that the virus didn't even originate in China, but was circulating in the world even before it was first found in China.
The earliest known copies of the SARS-CoV-2 were found in early November in Brazil, in water samples collected from sewage, and stored at the FIOCRUZ Institute for various research projects (that's their CDC). That's one month before the virus was even spotted in China for the first time! According to this Oxford University expert, it is possible that this virus was already widespread and relatively dormant even before the outbreak, so, there was no stopping it. Very interesting is the fact that a case popped up in the very isolated Falklands Islands in February! How the hell did it get there? The expert compares it with the puzzling fact that in the Spanish Flu of 1018, the disease killed one third of the population of Samoa when *nobody* had visited the island from abroad, showing that the virus was dormant there before the pandemic started.
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Maybe we should stop blaming our leaders for this inevitable pandemic.