Now’s a good time for POTUS to make a deal with the Chinese PTB to open up the internet to all people. With better communications this might have been handled before it got out of control
So many misconceptions on these threads...
The question of China opening up the Internet is a multi-edged sword for them, and somewhat irrelevant, here, speaking to “getting a handle on it” (the virus) promptly.
In this case, actually, the Chinese doctors were working with outside experts almost as soon as the problem manifest itself seriously. For one, the virus genome was mapped exceptionally early on, and published*, due to a group of Chinese doctors working with the University of Sidney (Australia.)
*I’ve read the documentation online, not that I understand the mapping! I do have a question though, for any FReeper knowledgeable: Once that genome is mapped, how much does that tell the experts?