[blackrock]

How did the Chinese fail to contain Covid, when serological tests showed that the virus was already present in the United States, in Seattle, back in December 2019?

We still don’t know if it was in the United States earlier than this, because the American authorities refuse to investigate it.

And it was already present in Europe, in Italy and Spain, in November 2019. So it was detected in Europe, after the fact, before it was even known in China.

So, given this information, how is this China’s fault, when they themselves discovered and isolated the virus in December 2019?

Can you please use some mental gymnastics here to help us all understand how this is all China’s fault?

What if instead, the virus came in from elsewhere, but China got hit the hardest first, but their disease tracking system was the first to actually detect the virus? Because apparently, the rest of the western countries all failed to detect it.

[sofixa]

The virus most likely came from a bat via another animal, and that's highly unlikely to have happened in any of the countries you mentioned. And considering how China responded to the outbreak in Wuhan, it's absolutely certain they won't be forthcoming to disclose previous outbreaks if they find evidence about them ( like the US and some European countries did)

[blackrock]

This is just conjecture. You have no evidence to support this.

And there are bats in Austin, Texas! You’re saying that the bats in Austin are clean, and disease free, while the bats in China, somehow only carry the virus?