At the time, they did not know it had spread beyond their borders. It made sense to concentrate efforts more locally. Turned out to be wrong, but not nefarious, not a deliberate attack.
We do, in fact, know that the virus was not engineered. It has been independently confirmed that the virus is naturally occurring. Try watching something other than Fox News.
As for wet markets, you’re showing some pretty shady cultural bias, regardless I’ll make two points.
- I’ll remind you that at the time of the outbreak China was knee deep in dealing with swine hemorrhagic fever, culling millions of pigs across the country and checking to make sure that virus didn’t spread beyond pigs into other livestock or humans so their resources were understandably spread thin. It’s ridiculous to automatically assume nefarious intent by China under such circumstances. Given the loss of that industry , which is huge in China, why would China deliberately set out to hurt the US or any other nation by spreading Coronavirus when they had one already that would be much more devastating if weaponized and spread? This propaganda makes no logical sense and serves only one purpose. Do you want to be a stooge to warmongering, parroting nonsense all the live long day? Can’t you think for yourself?
- We have a highly regulated food industry. Top notch, one of the best in the world. Yet, every year we have salmonella outbreaks that kill people and food poisoning at various points along the chain. We have contamination by microscopic organisms like Giardia sp., and Nigleria fowleri into our water sources by runaway cows. China is a large nation, as we are. The fact is, no amount of regulation is going to catch everything or be foolproof. We don’t accuse the US government of deliberately making people sick if our exports happened to slip through contaminated. We would rightly be outraged if anyone suggested such a ridiculous thing. I’ll remind you, again, there was no way at that point to test for Covid-19. Remember those fingers pointing back?
