I agree with a lot for stuff you say but as a medical professional with colleagues who are medical epidemiologists, I just have to push back against the narrative that the government was slow to respond to the virus.
I know this isn't the appropriate thread here but I'd like to reply this once. If you look at the sequence of events, the central government was actually quite fast at responding to the virus. The Wuhan govt was a little slow but we have to keep in mind that this was an entirely new virus and we did not know a lot about it at the time. These pneumonias occur all the time in society and we usually chalk it up to the flu. Testing, especially early on, is usually not very sensitive and difficult to create the test since you need RT PCR etc. I won't go into details.
The infamous post by the WHO which said there is not evidence of human to human transmission actually meant no SUSTAINED human to human transmission. They were clear that there were LIMITED human to human transmission. There is a big difference which was not shown in the twitter post but very clearly communicated in their messaging to all countries. Of course western countries just focus on that one post. To deflect blame.
Overall from a medical POV, I thought the govt moved quite quickly to contain a new virus, and much better than many other counties. I acctually feel they were too cautious and should have opened up a little faster.