That's a bald-faced lie Indi. Chinese doctors in Wuhan tried to report and repress it and they were put under house arrest and forced to sign recantments. It was well-knowns at the time that the CCP allowed a large festival, I forget witch, to take place with had 30,000 people. Also, the CCP did not block flights out of China. And later, the CCP never allowed international investigator to help it find the intermediary host.

The West has many things to atone for, spreading the initial virus is not one of them.

Many of the problems you talk about were not expected--but it wasn't malevalent. Man plans, God laughs. Do I think the world handled (handles) the virus well. NO. A complete clusterfck.

A problem from the West? No. Sri Lanka could do whatever it wanted and it picked wrong--but so far, it isn't clear there is going to be any right way.