“January 23rd was the first official death outside of Wuhan, in Hebei. There were around 100 cases noted in Hebei and another death a few days later.”
It was the videos of hospital lines and people dropping in the streets there, combined with reports about their crematoriums running 24/7, that triggered my ‘auto-prepping response’. I can only think that we didn’t want the Chinese to ‘lose face’ so took them at their word...and ignored those videos.
Agreed. Anyone who followed SARs, H1N1, or even bird flu has seen that the Chinese government always covers up how bad things are until too late. Thank goodness for camera phones!