Blame Game

To some people the answer is self-evident: China. Maybe those calling for a “China only” investigation should be looking closer to home?

The world is entitled to know the origins of COVID-19 and exactly how the outbreak began and how it was handled by every major nation, including China, given the pandemic alarm was raised back in September 2019. The World At Risk report by WHO and the World Bank Group contained dire warnings of a possible pandemic. These were largely ignored by most G20 countries including Australia. Is it any wonder most countries were dangerously ill-prepared, resulting in needless deaths? Marcus Reubenstein reports.

Thanks to a virus, transported in droplets just 0.005 millimetres in diameter, life as we know it has changed enormously.

The mortality rate of COVID-19 should see that is does not even come close to the deadliest pandemic in global history. However, as the world is so much more interconnected than at any previous time in history, the global disruption and economic fallout is without precedent.

With the world having sustained so much damage, the inevitable question is: Who is to blame?

 

Expand China investigation – most G20 countries ignored pandemic warning – Michael West