alt Hacker NewsChina actually took COVID extremely seriously from the start. They were snatching people from the streets and killing them. The China crematoriums were running non-stop.
It was the US Administration and the Republicans that were the dipshits and turned a health situation into politics.
That was months after the virus was already spreading. China oscillated from pretending it didn't exist in the critical outbreak period (2019), to some of the most extreme lockdowns (early 2020).