Similarly SARS and MERS were perhaps too virulent and could thus easily be controlled by screening for symptoms, while the new coronavirus can spread without symptoms, which could possibly be attributed to the lower virulence.
If thousands of deaths in China, a complete lockdown that hit the economy incredibly hard and perhaps more crucially, the total breakdown and potential reshaping of the global supply chain, which China has been benefitting from massively, is something that the Chinese gov wants to to achieve, then such conspiracy theories might hold water. I think it's plain to see how nonsensical they are.
Also, nobody made the US look bad but themselves. This is obvious if you compare COVID responses in countries like Germany with those in the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23407130
Excess deaths are the only accurate measure.
They're not a different species, they're people. If you give into the urge to treat them as "other", as inferior, or as a different "tribe" to be defeated you're not as different from them with their ridiculous beliefs as you might like to think.
https://stpauls.vxcommunity.com/Issue/Us-Experiment-On-Infan...
You ignored the Q you responded to. "Which professional published best case death estimate did the US not beat?"