I never said no one could have done better. It is obviously a new Covid Virus and no one was fully prepared for it.
How does this argument gel with the one about China lying about it for months?
A brand new virus breaks out that no one has any tests for and that has mild to moderate symptoms in most people, ans even when it gets serious takes a few weeks to get there. This virus breaks out in one of the most densely populated places and it breaks out when that dense population is having a national celebration that involves the population moving around.
Now it seems to me that you are expecting China to magically spot this new disease when there are only a few dozen cases in a massive population. When there are no tests and when the symptoms shown by most are very similar to common diseases that we all just live with.
And at the same time you are saying that the US (and a bunch of other countries including mine) couldnt have done any better in their response even though we knew exactly what was coming for us, how to test it and how to slow it down.
Fact it that we in the West dropped the ball on this, we can blame China to make ourselves feel better if we want. But all that time and energy spent arguing how it isnt our fault and its the big bad Chinese who are to blame isnt going to slow this down or stop our people from dying.
We are so used to playing political games of pass the hot potato that when reality comes up and punches us in the face, because reality doesnt care about our political shenanigans, we are left staggering in circles not knowing what to do.