“Thanks for the info about Guangdong. I hadn’t thought about that. I’m surprised at how concentrated the cases are in Hubei and how they rapidly diminish in adjacent provinces.”
Yes.
It’s incredibly concentrated there.
I don’t buy in to conspiracy theories.
In this case I am beginning to think this was due to an accidental release or contamination from the Wuhan virus lab.
Not a bio weapon, just a strain they’d collected that somehow contaminated the city. I can think of a number of scenarios. Scenarios more likely to happen in China such as a janitor in a hurry not following protocol and not incinerating waste because he’s in a hurry, and tossing it out on the side of the road because he wanted to leave early.
This is why it is and has been so focused in that area.
I don’t know, but this seems supported by data.
There’s the culture of unscrupulous people selling used lab animals for meat, too. One guy went to jail for 12 years in Beijing for selling government property (used animals).
Plus, the Chinese have been criticized for a long time for lax security and safeguards at their BSL-4 facility.