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EricHiggin on 14 April 2020
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SpokenTruth said:
EricHiggin said:

That's a pretty odd way to look at the world. Another country, or countries in this case, make terrible decisions, leading to your country suffering because of it, and all you care about is blaming your own leadership? If I were the leader of another country, especially a lousy leader, people with that type of mindset worldwide would be my best friends. No matter how bad I screw up, I can do little to no wrong. Speed past go, collect however much I want. I wonder why other countries don't go out of their way more often to trouble America?

Ok, but at least it wasn't a poor one that needed to be corrected this time.

If it my leadership that is directly responsible for the issue in my country, then yes, they get the blame. Follow this....if you can.

1). Country A has a problem.
2). Country A hides problem from other countries.
3). Country A takes massive action to contain problem.
4). Country B is informed of problem.
5). Country B is informed of problem again.
6). Country B takes no action.
7). Country B now has problem.
8). Country B denies problem.
9). Country B problem gets worse.
10). County B continues to deny problem.
11). Country B problem gets worse.
12). County B continues to deny problem.
13). Country B problem gets worse.
14). Country B finally takes action.
15). Country B eventually becomes worst county on planet with problem.

If you were a citizen of country B, you should be mad at for step 15?

Number 1 has been warned about for years, even decades, in terms of China especially.

Number 2 is the biggest problem by far. What if they hadn't hidden the problem and made everyone else aware and asked for help asap?

Number 3 is basically too late. They screwed up number 2 and it's unlikely they could fix it based on this illness.

Number 4, 5, 6 aren't abnormal. No country is going to instantly shut itself down without enough worthy info. If it does and they are wrong, people losing money and jobs and being scared for no reason are going to be super pissed off.

Number 7 is basically set in motion because of number 2.

Number 8 is a problem. Not much reason to deny something that's now proven and at your doorstep.

Number 9 forward are just repetition of 7 and 8, but it was almost certainly too late to stop it from entering once things were set in motion.

Number 15 is unfortunate, but what more could have been done, in reality, based on what was known for fact and not just guessing and opinions? In a free multicultural country like America, how do you legitimately clamp down on a level like some other countries like China had?

Should America be blameless? No. Should it be getting anywhere near the blame it has been? No. If China had done the right thing in the first place, for all we know, America could have been the biggest contributor to helping contain the problem there so it barely spread anywhere else.