“China lied. People died.”
Any neutral outside observer, without education, could see what was happening in China.
At minimum, Jan 23d lock down of 53 million people was the tell.
Only the willfully ignorant ignored it.
I dunno. Somewhere around the first threads on this, I was like, eh, their problem, doesn’t affect me. The smuggled videos caught my interest, and the whodunit element, but even with airlift folks 5 miles from me I was pretty nonchalant. And that was reading FR and other sources. By Feb 14th, airlifts were parolled, and when we noticed the shortage in masks and sanitizer around here. But we were thinking masks more for weed wacking and the upcoming fire season. Once they announced person to person is when we perked up and topped off the tanks and hay. So we were only about 2 weeks ahead of the Costco swarmers.