The 2022 Winter Olympics have been marred by COVID as athletes are forced to miss events, and spectators have been limited. Yet China, the country responsible for unleashing COVID on the world, was still allowed to host the Winter Games.

While it matters whether COVID truly spread from a Chinese wet market or was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the question does little to change China’s guilt. As the virus spread throughout Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party silenced doctors who blew the whistle about the severity of the virus.