Fantastic to see people around here getting their first jabs. I watched 54 Days: China and the Pandemic last night on BBC, it wasn’t really anything new, we all knew China withheld information, but they really spelled out how many times they censored doctors, how many times they withheld information from WHO and other world leaders. They knew around 5th Jan it spread person to person but they didn’t confirm it until late January. They’d sequenced the virus around then too but he Chinese government never shared it. Much later a Chinese scientist leaked it. It was a very frustrating watch.
One thing that kept coming up was that the communist government like stability for its country and so would withhold information to keep calm and stability. Given the deadliness of the virus that seems a little shortsighted.
Anyway, appreciate this is a little bit of a downer compared to the good news above so happy to remove it (or be censored 😉).