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How though?the discussion here needs to about breaking down borders and national boundaries - this isn't a domestic issue, it's global. There should be condemnation about the cover up and perhaps litigation allowed, or some sort of legal accountability brought to the proverbial table. With the amount of control that China has over its population, there's no way this could have happened without some sort of higher administration knowing.
In cases like this, where a potential epidemic can go worldwide, and data/containment is absolutely critical, then there must be some sort of recourse that other nations can take in the interest of global health and their own citizens.
This was never going to be a Chinese-only issue.
And could have been contained, perhaps even by now, with clearer information and transparency.
Three other people have been admitted to ERs here with symptoms, but turned out to be just the regular flu.
China wont even crack down on the illegal animal markets that are behind all the problems from the very beginning. Outside of a disease that absolutely decimates the Chinese they wont change. The international community would probably have to pressure them through sanctions and that would send the global economy into a tailspin. If the economy goes into a tailspin then the world's elections will punish those for creating the sanctions. This is just another case of the world needing to take it's medicine and we've seen how that goes in the past. Unfortunately it's going to take something really extreme to happen in order to make something happen.