How top is the top, check what happened around the world, flooded hospitals deprived cancer patients from their life saving treatments, everything is gone from panic shopping, this virus is a new virus and people knew nothing about it, how contagious it is, can it be tranmitted from human to human, how virulent... all of them need time for researchers to find out, a false alarm can kill more people than the virus itself.
After find out these more info about this virus, China swiftly lockdown the city and Wuhan and Hubei province, when oversea confirmed cases were still almost none.
Check what US did in 2009 over H1N1, They locked down no cities, no large scale city or country wide quarantines, they just let H1N1 have a free run and quickly the virus spreaded everywhere, very very quickly.
Credit where credit is due, China's efforts to mitigate this crisis have been above and beyond and must be applauded.
But the question remains, I as a common man, cannot go to work, cannot venture out, am afraid for those vulnerable in my household. Who is responsible?
Why then, in dec when this pandemic was first being discovered, did the the CCP not alert the global community, why try to cover it up then, why strong arm nations into not cancelling flights to and from China, exasperating the outbreak. Why was preserving image of CCP more important than trying to prevent this catastrophe.
Why is it, that after having experience from past instances of such pandemics, no policies or executive actions to stem a future outbreak were not taken. Why must this unpleasant bit of history be repeated every couple of years.
To help after the pandemic has taken hold is generous and virtuous and commendable but to prevent a pandemic by learning from past instances and implementing the lessons learned is visionary.
Ok, so I guess India must be a very reponsive, highly efficient and quick problem solving nation, congratulations, China should learn from you.
Sir, I'm afraid you're conflating our criticism of the CCP with that of the Chinese people, nothing can be far from the truth.
We are inefficient, not as capable as our CCP counter parts, no debate about that, but accountability is important, those in power here, are beholden to answer those who have elected them, are beholden to checks and balances over their actions. Overall, a system open to feedback is self improving compared to a closed one.
