The governing construct has nothing to do with race.

A government that detains initial sources of ‘rumors’ of untreatable pneumonia should be trusted about as, say, a social network company governance that deletes non-proganda-aligned informational posts about spread of that pneumonia, or an election year government that reduced infectious disease control budgets and says nothing to see here move along.

Nothing to do with race.

> Why exactly would you distrust China, besides racism?

Because, historically, they have not been trustworthy with this sort of thing?

Not trusting the Chinese government is way different than not trusting a Chinese person.

Oh let me see, perhaps it has something to do with China being a one-party state with a ripe history of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship.

Just look at SARS for an example of where trusting the official information from China made for a terrible idea.

And the US isn't a two party state with a ripe history (and present) of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship?

Your view of China is almost entirely defined by US media, owned by capitalists. Perhaps consider they have an incentive to lie.

There is a discontinuity there. A two party system is many orders of magnitude more reliable than a single party system, even if not ideal.

The US also has a much smaller history of hiding facts and persecuting the Press.

The two US parties are almost completely identical in behaviour. They have both continued brutal imperialism. They have both demonised countries that opposed said imperialism and persecuted the few in the US (press or otherwise) that were also opposed.

There is also no democratic control of the people over the US press, it's privately owned by only a few. The press has an extremely long history of hiding and fabricating facts, particularly against anti-capitalists.

More importantly, there is no democratic control over production and distribution. It is almost all privately owned.

The US's history of brutality and manipulation is unmatched.

Maybe because the virus was downplayed from the beginning and the doctors who discovered it, were punished and told to be quiet instead of getting support?

Now sure, the chinese government changed their tactic, but it would take a while for me, to trust them on anything.

Not OP, but: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coron...

I personally have trust that at least in the US, a whistleblower would speak out to media if the official announcement doesn't agree with the records s/he can see. Maybe this is also blind faith that the system still works in the US. Who knows if Trump has installed loyalists that deep, who will only report good news: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/26/johnny-mcent...