Old China was full of inventors and builders. New China steals intellectual property and makes deadly viruses.

...so. they stole the IP behind a deadly virus that WE were making? Have I got that right?

Are you dense? China steals more IP than any other country by hacking.

Yes, they did. Well they made a deal and Fauci gave it to them because he couldn't keep it here in the US.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/u-s-governments-3-7-million-grant-to-wuhan-lab-at-center-of-coronavirus-outbreak/

So what's with all the "blame China" shit? Surely, you should be saying it's us?

We sold it to China, they released it, and Fauci is not 'us' he's an evil Obama goon that Trump kept around.

So we're in agreement that Trump is at least partially at fault here? That's progress of sorts, I suppose.

He's at fault because he thought he could keep some of these people around and they'd do the right thing. He was trying to pull a Washington by having people from both political parties advising him. He doesn't understand that leftists have a scorched earth policy.

...I mean, whichever way you arrive at the "he's incompetent" conclusion, it's kind of what we've been saying the whole time.

He was incompetent in not firing all the sleazebag Obama holdovers on day one, that I'll give you. Still more competent than Hilldawg would have been as prez.

I don't believe that he's incompetent. I believe that he did what he was supposed to and that is defer to the experts when he doesn't know something. In this case the experts were wrong and in fact were part of the cause of the problem.
No one can know everything about everything. Its just an impossibility. The job of the experts is to give the president enough information to make informed decisions. They failed this time.