The Global South

Most countries including China handled COVID better than the US did.

Um, did you miss the time when they bolted people inside their apartments which resulted in people burning to death in apartment fires? Or the massive amount of misinformation they spread regarding COVID? Or that they put several journalists in jail for reporting on COVID?

I don't think it's functionally possible for any country to have handled COVID worse than China did.

No, they want the WHO in their pocket. The US fumbled the response, but China was worse. Lots of China worshipping on Lemmy lately.

The Chinese government has reportedly actively engaged in disinformation to downplay the emergence of COVID-19 in China and manipulate information about its spread around the world. The government also detained whistleblowers and journalists claiming they were spreading rumors when they were publicly raising concerns about people being hospitalized for a "mysterious illness" resembling SARS. The blame for the failure to report cases of COVID-19 at the onset is unclear because of the difficulty pinpointing it as a failure by either local or national officials. The Associated Press reported that, "increasing political repression has made officials more hesitant to report cases without a clear green light from the top." There are ongoing investigations in an effort to understand what happened, including an investigation by the World Health Organization which will probe into what Wuhan officials knew at the time of the outbreak.