When was the last time these things happened?
ALL. AT. THE. SAME. TIME.
1) China has restricted the movements of over 50 million people during Chinese New Year
2) China has instituted temperature screenings at 237 train stations (maybe 287, I lost the link). (South China Morning Post)
3) The President / Communist Party General Secretary of China openly called this a (his words) grave situation (over the weekend) and says that the spread is accelerating
4) The Director of the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins openly says we should be making national and international plans for the event that this cannot be contained; and talks about multiple crash research programs into vaccines where “money is no object”
5) The Lancet publishes an article saying that R0 (# of people infected by each carrier) is 2.8 (the Spanish Flu of 1918 was only 1.8)
6) A PhD who taught at Harvard School of Public Health for 15 years says that R0 is 3.5
7) The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services holds a joint press conference in DC, along with the Director of the Institute for Allergies and Infections Diseases, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease ....for something that only has had 5 cases without symptoms in the US?
8) Local authorities all over the US start pulling people suspected of infection off of planes and putting them in isolated hospital rooms, and institute contact tracing?
9) British Airways shuts down ALL flights into and out of China
10) Taiwan announced mandatory ankle location bracelets for people coming out the affected area, and say if anyone leaves home they will be subject to MANDATORY involuntary quarantine, and fine one traveler $10,000 for lying about his condition?
You left off: Disney China closed.
Disney was reopened about two days after 9/11 to put that in perspective. Doesn’t close for hurricanes.
The article also missed the major point: of those infected, 25% are in critical condition and hospitalized. Yeah, they may not die, but the early infected are the lucky ones. Later infected will have not hospital beds.
Many of the things you write, we only have the Chinese government’s word is happening.
Add to your list the closing of China’s stock market.
+5
Interviews with people returning from China today bears out all concerns. The streets are empty, even in HK, stores and eating places closed. People are scared and in hiding.
Or you can believe some guy on the innerwebs.