WHO disagrees with you, and more specifically, points out that China "contained" it when it was already "out of the bag". Not to the same extent as in Europe and the US, but you did have infections in almost every province, and several provinces ended up with over 1K infections.
Fully agree that China is the only nation that had managed to decisively halt the spread of the virus after it had achieved full breakout.
You have to remember that at the start of the outbreak, China had zero warning or preparations, and it happened during the peak of the Lunar new year annual travel peak
Contact tracing was all but meaningless given the sheer numbers.
Places like South Korea, Japan, HK, Taiwan and Singapore all had the benefit of advanced warning, so they could screen new arrivals and put in place additional tracking measures so that if a visitor later tested positive, they could then easily and comprehensively contact trace people who were high risk of being also infected.
With the exception of SK, COVID19 never achieved any scale or true breakout on any of those places. And even in SK, the number of infected were massively inflated by the religious cults. But that in turn actually made the outbreak much easier to trace and contain, since those cult members where spending most of their time together rather than spreading the virus all over the country.
That is why none of them needed to go as far as China, because they reacted fast, their first lines of defences held. In addition, I am firmly convinced that the widespread use of masks also played a vital role in curbing the spread of the virus. There are real world case studies to prove this, where people on a bus with an infected individual and only those who didn’t wear masks ended up being infected.
I think western led ‘science based medical advice’ against the general use of masks by the public is one of the most vile and blatant pieces of selfish propaganda I have ever seen or even heard of.
The only reason western experts are giving that advice is because of the West’s utter inability to provide enough masks. The politicians are worried that if people feel they need masks but can’t get their hands on any that they will riot, so they lie to tell people they don’t need masks, and convince doctors and scientists to support that lie, because riots would indeed be the last thing countries facing COVID19 outbreaks needs. But those are not the only options!
It is beyond doubt that people will die because of this ‘expert advice’. And they will die because of pride, because if western governments officially request aid from China, China could meet the demand of masks for them. But western governments care more about face saving optics and point scoring against China than saving the lies of their own citizens. It is actually more important for western governments to try to find a way to beat the virus that is different from China’s methods than it is to beat the virus. Just look at the British example. They would rather have the entire population infect and maybe as much as 6% of them die than admit that China did something right and worthy of them to learn from.
It’s only when the bodies literally start piling up and western leaders start to panic that they would finally throw away their pride and follow China’s example. Italy and Spain are at those tipping points now, but they are luckier in that they are less brainwashed due to language from western MSM propaganda, so are less resistant to learning from China.
I expect the British and Americans to hold out much longer and their peoples to suffer much more needlessly.
It is pretty telling and pathetic that the western MSM and governments are even now still more obsessed about not giving China any credit by adopting China’s tried and proven methods than about saving the lives of their own citizens.
Even the WHO is calling these political scumbags out by stressing that now is the time for action, not stupid theory bashing trying to avoid following China’s example.
