Their response is frightening to me.
This is secretive Commie China we are talking about..and they are in full blown panic.
Since when does Commie China order a hospital built in 7 days to combat bat soup.
Something is off about this whole thing.
Let’s assume it is not something that escaped their bioweapons lab.
Maybe it came from bat soup.
They are responding like it is a bioweapon. After only 41 official deaths. Actually, even before those official death numbers
This tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1220721867058827266
“Just five days ago in #Wuhan, oblivious city officials held a banquet for 10,000 families in an attempt to set a world record. Now, people are dropping in the streets and, unable to get medical attention, dying in their homes. #China #WuhanCoronavirus”
No, the Chinese response makes complete sense if one looks at that simulation of a theoretical but not particularly unusual naturally occurring & rather similar coronavirus that ends up killing 65 million people.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html
Take that and have it pop up in, instead of rural Brazil, a large Chinese metro area that’s also a major transportation hub, right before CNY, when half the freakin’ country will be travelling. (Well, less will be travelling now!)
One other thing: Of what we know (or pretty much think we know) so far, there is no characteristic of this virus that is exceptional. The fatality rate, if it holds at 3%, is rather high, but we’ve certainly seen higher, even in the last 100 years (a blip in human history). The difference now is the number of humans available to be infected, very efficient global transportation, and, China in the last generation has built a VERY impressive internal transportation system, compared to what existed previously.