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They lead the world in starting plagues because they eat bats, and they are constantly together with pigs and ducks on their farms. Flu viruses are very able to jump from one species to another, and mutate when that happens, and the petri dish for that is China.
WRT your minuscule infection rate for all of China: first, we are still early in the game. Every disease starts with a single person...but what is important is how many get it after 6 or 12 months. You also seem to be believing the numbers that they are putting out. I know that we have pretty much nothing else to go on, but there is a consensus just about everywhere that China is lying to the entire world about this. Further, if it was such a minuscule percentage, why would they quarantine several hundred million people, and go around with giant machines spreading out massive amounts of disinfectant? Don’t believe their words, look at their actions for what the real truth is. The Chinese leadership is panicked over this thing, and that is because they know something that they have not let the rest of the world know.

I heard on the news this morning that the virus will have run its course by this April.

“I heard on the news this morning that the virus will have run its course by this April.”

I read that some virologist who was studying it said the same thing, his thesis/position being that sunlight, warmer temps and more humidity will combine to kill it. Possibly - HOPEFULLY - he is correct.

But I also read that each corona virus is (of course) different, and that there is one which infects cats that is pretty much not affected by sunlight. So who knows until we get to the Spring. The Spanish flu of 100 years ago wasn’t so affected - but this is no an influenza virus, it is different. Oh, and this particular virus will, like all viruses, mutate at one or more points in the future, and whether those mutations make it more or less virulent, more or less communicable, more or less vulnerable to UV rays and warmer temps - well, that we’ll just have to wait and find out...it isn’t like we have much of a choice in the matter.

Again, hopefully the coming of Spring does the trick, and all of the medical authorities will have learned a lot from the experience of the lack 2-3 months. Maybe we’ll even have a vaccine in a year or so (though that’s no guarantee, there is STILL no AIDS vaccine despite billions having been poured into that research over the last 20 or so years).