Yes, people are blaming the Chinese government, because there's evidence that they actually tried to cover it up and botched the response. Sometimes blame is rightly placed.

They may have screwed up at first but then they reacted drastically and made huge efforts, which are paying off. I'm not convinced that others would have managed it better overall. The Chinese are now helping others.

Experts have been warning us for years than something like this coronavirus was coming, and we got several alerts (SARS, MERS, etc). The Chinese cannot be blamed for the global spread of the virus and for the lack of readiness of other countries.

Let's focus on defeating this virus through global cooperation instead of pointing fingers. Once this pandemic is behind us then hopefully everyone will reflect and learn what can be learned from it.

I believe we should be focused on the virus, but when this world wide short down is over we shouldn't forget were this came from and put some international influence on shutting down the wild animal markets in China which no doubt will just spawn another coronavirus in the next decade. I don't respect any "tradition" that leads to havoc like this.

There is no proof that such markets are the link. Bats life close to humans almost everywhere on earth, and any contamination could have been the link.

This scenario of someone eating an infected, exotic animal is just blatant racism.

The wet markets have already been banned, the thing to exert pressure on now is proper enforcement.

Did they really?

I keep hearing they have contained it, but I also get reports that they haven’t. Also, something needs to change for their policies to not impact the rest of the world in such drastic manner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iamactuallyverybadass/comments/fhju...

Please, try to use official sources, like the WHO or CDC to base your assumptions. Anecdotal reports on Reddit do little to add to the discussion, specially since it is very hard to verify claims people post there.

Unfortunately it's also very hard to verify claims of the Chinese government, we need to weigh the reports accordingly.