you’re missing the point. 800 cases and 10 deaths from a frigid winter was nothing to pull the fire alarm over. In America, we’ve had 5,000 deaths and 87,000 hospitalized from flu so far this year. Should we be quarantined?
The story is either:
We figured out China was lying (would still be lying)
Or:
We know everything we need to know about the the trajectory of this particular communicable disease, how it is spread, it’s symptoms, behavior, prognoses
You cannot have it both ways.
Shemya island ,AK. Midway Islands, Johnston Atoll= great quarantines