Why you shouldn’t expect China to apologise for coronavirus

From: Roger Backhouse, Orchard Road, Upper Poppleton, York.
By YP Letters
Published 25th Mar 2020, 16:45 BST
In this March 17, 2020 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker looks at CT scans at the Huoshenshan field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Last month, Wuhan was overwhelmed with thousands of new cases of coronavirus each day. But in a dramatic development that underscores just how much the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States, Chinese authorities said Thursday, March 19, that the city and its surrounding province had no new cases to report. The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, for most people, but severe illness is more likely in the elderly and people with existing health problems.In this March 17, 2020 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker looks at CT scans at the Huoshenshan field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Last month, Wuhan was overwhelmed with thousands of new cases of coronavirus each day. But in a dramatic development that underscores just how much the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States, Chinese authorities said Thursday, March 19, that the city and its surrounding province had no new cases to report. The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, for most people, but severe illness is more likely in the elderly and people with existing health problems.
In this March 17, 2020 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker looks at CT scans at the Huoshenshan field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Last month, Wuhan was overwhelmed with thousands of new cases of coronavirus each day. But in a dramatic development that underscores just how much the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States, Chinese authorities said Thursday, March 19, that the city and its surrounding province had no new cases to report. The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, for most people, but severe illness is more likely in the elderly and people with existing health problems.

SADLY, diseases can start almost anywhere. With a quarter of the world’s population, it is highly likely new illnesses will start in China. Expecting a Chinese apology, as suggested by Mike Ridgway (The Yorkshire Post, March 21), is unrealistic.

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Those hit by the often fatal Legionnaire’s disease might expect an apology from the USA. And should the Democratic Republic of Congo offer an apology for Ebola?

Should China issue an apology to the world over coronavirus?Should China issue an apology to the world over coronavirus?
Should China issue an apology to the world over coronavirus?
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I am no fan of Chinese autocracy nor tactics of undercutting Western manufacturers to drive them out of business. Unfortunately, Western companies and governments have been complicit by shipping production to the Far East and allowing China’s companies unfettered purchase of UK business. The former Chancellor, George Osborne, was a particular pro-Chinese offender.

No wonder Donald Trump used anti-China tactics to win his election. In the UK, anger was channelled against the EU, even though China was a far bigger destroyer of British manufacturing jobs.

As for Covid-19, like most diseases, it is now a worldwide issue and needs to be tackled worldwide. Nationalist point scoring has no place when it comes to health.

From: David Wilson, Sykehouse, Goole.

I AGREE entirely with the comments of Mike Ridgway regarding coronavirus and the Chinese.

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In addition to the appalling treatment of animals in the live markets, the Chinese are the driving force for most, if not all, of the worldwide illegal trafficking in body parts of endangered animals.

The world will be a different place when we are over this dreadful disease. I hope that some good can come from it and that lessons will be learnt by everyone.

From: Sir Andrew Cook CBE, Chairman, William Cook Holdings Ltd, Parkway Avenue, Sheffield.

AS Western governments pledge untold billions of largely non-existent money to counter the economically destructive effects of their own Covid counter-measures, has anyone thought of sending the bill to China, whence the disease originated?

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Leaving aside the unproved allegations that ultimate responsibility for the Covid outbreak lies with lax security at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China is dependent on the West as a market for its products.

It is surely in its own best interests to use its vast dollar reserves to help rebuild those markets.

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