Every single day Trump has to show the world what a disgusting person he is. And every single day his supporters love him for it.

I guess he tries the same around the world with other companies to ensure that he can say "USA managed to develop the first vaccine on this planet with the hard work that me and my friends put into it"

Yeah, China's initial response of suppressing information was god-awful! But they did get their act together eventually and indisputably have managed to drastically reduce the number of daily new transmissions in the country to like single or double digits where it had been in the many thousands. That's what I'm talking about! It's some of the successful steps that they ultimately took that I think we should look at. As to being oppressive, this whole experience is oppressive for all of us. Name one thing about it that isn't: the problem? The solutions? Anything? Major disruption of normal life is just factually the only way to address a crisis like this.

It's also not like our own White House has exactly been honest and forthcoming about the seriousness of the outbreak either for that matter. You know good and well that Trump would have all those critical reporters and so forth rounded up and imprisoned if he could halfway legally get away with it. It's not like his instincts are any different.

Look, I've got no respect for China's system of government. It's a repressive, tyrannical, and often dangerously dishonest police state. But when there are individual solutions to this outbreak that have been enacted and proven effective that we're not even thinking about implementing here in this country as our situation begins to rapidly deteriorate, do I worry about whether they were first enacted in China or not? No, I'm concerned with whether they're effective or not. That's not being a shill for a police state, it's called being pragmatic.

Meanwhile China sends doctors, ventilators and other medical equipment to Italy now. I guess they know better than the USA how to build up a good relationship nowadays.

But it is politics. What Trump does and what China does. No reason to act as if it isn't. Trump does it for his presidency and China for their relationship with Italy/EU

China isn't a trustworthy partner but with what Trump does, he is one of the reasons why it's easier for China to step in

I agree. And I want to add, that this is an extraordinary situation, a state of emergency. In situations like this it is acceptable to temporarily restrict personal liberties, if it is helpful to save lifes. Important is, that the liberties are restored, once the situation has been overcome.

Also the measurements taken seem to have stopped the spreading of the virus in China. I fear if all is over, some countries might end up with more casualties than China does. And I am not accepting that this will be worth the liberties and the profits of companies.

I see Chinas reaction as one of a good neighbor. Politicizing are the people, that want to paint China always in a bad light, even when they do something good.

That's the scary thing about exponential growth: each day looks worse than the day before. And we must realize, that this only stops if we implement measures to bring the infection rate down.

EDIT: By the way, germany now also cracked 5000 cases. I thought that might happen on monday.

Switzerland just exploded.
They had around 200 new infections for the past few days and now got 841 in a single day. Overtook Norway in cases per capita and is only 2nd to ... well Italy of course.

The problem with that is, it's only half measures when you keep day cares open or turn schools into day cares. Unless they instruct all the kids to stay away from each other. After reading that article about flattening the curve only really working if you can stretch it out to a decade, as much containment as possible is still the only way to limit damage. But to get on track, first we need to stop the current uncontrolled spread and take inventory on where the virus is. Faster and mass produced tests are needed, while people stay at home.

Weird answer. Just imagine one possible situation: 

Trump would buy the possibly researched vaccine  away from Europe and China would help Europe with an own developed vaccine. Right now it looks as if China would do that (the reason is irrelevant to be honest).

Trump would do China a huge favour and even if China would do it only for themselves it would at least not look like USA is a better "friend".

When I look at the last years and see what Trump tries now I'm not really sure how at least he is supposed to be a better partner. USA with another President? Sure