Prelude to the “Trump should have known” stories we are going to be seeing from now until Nov.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
There is some speculation that the virus was spreading in October. Reports that the “patient zero” was a US military bicyclist (Maatje Benassi) seem to be wrong, but there are other instances related to the “military world games” held in Wuhan last October.
https://medium.com/@justin_hart/has-cornavirus-been-here-all-along-13b414a3bea6
Article discusses a spike in Washington state in Oct-Nov. Maybe people were returning from Military World Games returned to CONUS through McChord AFB?
IOW we really dont know what the true R0 is for this virus. We dont know much of anything except that comorbidities make this deadly. Well duh
Open back up now
Experts will soon determine that the coronavirus has been in the US since the Lincoln administration.
Could it also be possible that the folks had a generic cold....with symptoms.(reported)...then, at a later date got infected with coronavirus but had no symptoms? They would be antibod positive with that scenario also.