[alloai]

I just searched the version in Chinese. This is the google translated version :

"“” When the severity of the virus is unknown, many companies have been commissioned by different hospitals to perform sequencing. After the National Centers for Disease Control received the report, they ordered all units without safety qualifications to destroy all virus samples. Less than two weeks later, the full virus sequencing results were made available to the world. "“”

I found that it's deplorable that so many white politicians and media practitioners lack professionalism and wisdom that caused so much severe spread around the world. Look at South Korean, it should be served as manual for pandemic crisis resolutions.

[dang]

It's good that you're attempting to provide factual information. But it's bad that you're adding flamebait like "so many white politicians and media practitioners". Please keep doing the first and stop doing the second. That sentence is a specimen of the same pathogen you're deploring. Your comment would be just fine without it.

For more explanation, see these links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dathinab]

If this is the case than china acted fully responsible. _And any western country would have acted the same_.

Especially it wouldn't mean any research result was destroyed just strands of the virus kept in places where it's not safe to keep them.

This would be really sad that a media outed completely turned around the facts to put blame on China... I mean let's be honest if it would have started in the USA (like ironically the Spanish flue did, even through it had Spanish in it's name) then I'm pretty sure the results would have been far worse then they are now.

[robocat]

> Look at South Korea

No: look at Taiwan. They started acting immediately on the 29th of December and escalated very early January.

Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not? Or why did they act so quickly when other countries did not?

[sfj]

They got burned by SARS

[cjrp]

> Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not?

Certainly not from China.

[tinza123]

This. The misleading title seems to point to a completely different conclusion deliberately.

[stevens32]

If you were to cite the source and remove the flame-bait, this sort of correction tends to float towards the top of the comments.

[simonke]

Nice racism you got here