That sounds reasonable and reassuring. But then, why did the Chinese react so strongly in Wuhan?
“why did the Chinese react so strongly in Wuhan?”
That is why the US and other Governments lock down. We will not know until Fall if the experts are right...
Maybe the USA lock down to early, the large outbreak did not start until mid-spring timeframe. Not enough infected to make a difference for herd immunity, this fall might be hell.
Who knows? New virus, related to SARS, but worse. Logical on their part.
No one, including the Chinese, understood the course of the virus outside of human intervention, and to a point we still don't. Italy (and later Spain) scared the crap out of governments around the world when they started out employing only minimal precautions only to see the virus rage out of control. Then the world watched as new infections subsided a few weeks after Italy's lock down, reinforcing the lock down strategy. We still don't know what the virus does without mitigating action, as while Sweden hasn't locked down, they have implemented significant policies to reduce spread, and they benefit from global mitigation as well as the efforts of their close neighbors. How would Sweden be doing with hundreds of thousands of tourist running around, large public gatherings, open borders throughout the EU, international air travel, cruise ships, etc? How much worse would Italy, Spain, England and others have been had they done nothing when the disease got out of control?
For now, we have to live with this bug. It seems to be a lot harder to control in very dense population centers, not so hard in smaller urban and suburban areas, and pretty easy in rural areas. Keeping it out of nursing homes would go a long way toward reducing the most serious cases. Apply the mitigating actions where they make the most difference and make small course corrections rather than sweeping actions.
To cover up the leak of virus from their virology lab in Wuhan.
...why did the Chinese react so strongly in Wuhan?
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1)They knew it was virulent, their population was vulnerable and worst of all, they would be castigated internationally for the release.
2) They saw an opportunity to spread it and simultaneously exploit the situation to their own putative advantage.
3) They are politically frugal and didn’t want to let the crisis go to waste.
Because they thought they had accidentally released a virus from their Biowar experiments (See "Gain-of-Function") into their general population. As indeed they most likely did.
And all the other Governments wound up getting that same information eventually. But nobody wants to start a war over this little "oops". The oligarchies running all major counties have too much to lose. So - "it was the Wuhan Seafood Market as the source". "Just one of those things".
It is heartening to realize that Government bureaucrats across the world universally tend to exaggerate progress reports on major programs. COVID-19 is more infectious, but less lethal than expected, and continues evolving in that direction. Also, a lot of very smart people are discovering various treatments that seem effective.
We are gonna be OK. Well, most of us anyway.
Because the chinee researcher(s) who studied the "gain of functionality" of the PRRA strand they had inserted into the virus RNA took a huge viral load and died from it, but not before they went out and infected a bunch of other people in Wuhan.
The chicoms knew it was an escapee from a bio-weapons lab, knew that it could be fatal, knew that it had "gained functionality", but were still in the dark as it pertains to its lethality.
And then took the conscious decision to let it spread to the rest of the world in the hopes that it would damage the world's economy as much as President Trump's tariffs were damaging china, and betting that they would come up with a means of containing and treating the bug before the rest of the word - now infected - spread the disease back to the rest of china.
chinee act of war.