Chinese authorities may trigger a Streisand effect by restricting access to scientific data.
There's no ground for blaming this virus outbreak on a specific country, not China more than any other. But restricting access to data may bring more intense scrutiny onto this, and add more fuel to conspiracy theories.
I am wondering whether the Streisand effect is already here, but am not sure whether the Chinese government would care. And it's not only China but also the US which doesn't fully cooperate with the UN as I have read recently. There appears to be too much politics, too much national interest on all sides.
More data transparency would not only help scientists to better understand the origin of the virus but also help to fight future pandemics. I am not an expert in this field, but I guess more international collaboration would be beneficial for the entire globe (not in the least because, as you suggest, there's no country to blame for as such an outbreak can happen anywhere, anytime).
There’s no ground for blaming this virus outbreak on a specific country,
There's ground for making them responsible for not avoiding at all costs spreading that, for lying/deception/manipulation, for prosecuting health professionals early reporting on the sarscov-19... and still hiding the truth, making it inaccessible; they are afraid, guilty of something very big. At that point, we should have no such worldwide pandemics. This caused and causes many pain, suffering, that could have been avoided. I will not forget, I can't say I can forgive (all governments included)
btw https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
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