Up the Guts
Steve Williams (59)
There are inconsistencies everywhere in both the testing regimes and also the recording of deaths. In Italy and other countries apparently, elderly people dying at home don't get counted in the COVID-19 deaths because they never had a test even though they most likely died of COVID-19.
China let the virus out into the world in the first place but if you look at Australia's situation, we have imported far more of our COVID-19 problem from the USA than anywhere else. For one of our closest allies we could pin a lot of blame on their lack of response to the pandemic.
Much of the prolonged economic disaster will be as a result of many countries not taking the pandemic seriously enough and acting early based on the experience elsewhere.
The news of the novel coronavirus originating from Wuhan was available in mid January so it is not like there wasn't more time to prepare.
It's hard to pinpoint many countries where you would guarantee their response and transparency to the rest of the world would be better if a novel virus had originated in their country.