I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t been around in some form since fall/late 2019 but then in early 2020 mutated someplace maybe like near a fish-market.
I know several families who in 2020 one member sickened and was found positive, but the rest of their families then either tested positive/asymptomatic or tested negative.
I also know many folks incl yours truely who experienced unusual mild flu/covid like symptoms sometime between fall 2019-summer 2020 who were never tested at the time.
Lots of people think they may have had it earlier than the official date but I have yet to see antibody testing that confirms it. I’m an ER nurse and all the nurses including me had something around October-November but there has been no antibody testing to confirm it and some of those same people went on to get Covid. And the fact remains, there isn’t going to be a big lapse in time between the actual moment this virus “hits the beach” and the time in which it has moved into the interior as an epidemic/pandemic. We have seen how transmissible and contagious it is. 111 people aren’t going to be walking around with it, not showing any signs/symptoms of illness and then, miraculously, not transmit it to a whole lot of other people. This is a coverup. The Chinese have even infiltrated FR to spread this narrative. I have the post in my history.