They downplayed it because chinese and their "racism" bullshit.

Definitely don't talk about how they had a big public feast for wuhanites last december after they KNEW something was going around, and then gave people several days' notice before locking it down, letting millions of the little ratfinks spread their filth all over the world. And let's not talk about the possibility of corrupt little fucks with no internal dialogue thinking they can get away with selliing "sacrificed" lab subjects to wet markets for some quick side bucks, because that's the sort of corruption that goes on in places like that ... they don't enforce any other fucking law that was forced onto them by western optics, so why should they give a fuck about lab safety?

They downplayed it because chinese and their "racism" bullshit.

Definitely don't talk about how they had a big public feast for wuhanites last december after they KNEW something was going around, and then gave people several days' notice before locking it down, letting millions of the little ratfinks spread their filth all over the world. And let's not talk about the possibility of corrupt little fucks with no internal dialogue thinking they can get away with selliing "sacrificed" lab subjects to wet markets for some quick side bucks, because that's the sort of corruption that goes on in places like that ...