Yes because China dug up roads, shut down cities, and welded people inside houses and forcefully sent people to quarantine camps all because of the “flu”
Every Country that borders Iran has shut the border down because of the “flu”
Ok, so using your logic, we should be seeing huge increases in transmission, infections and deaths in the next week or so in all areas which didn’t tear up roads etc, correct?
COVID-19: 2,628 deaths reported world wide with 0 in the states.
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths world wide; 12,000 to 61,000 in the US per year.
COVID-19: Approximately 80,000 cases worldwide; 35 here in the US
Flu: Estimated 1 Billion cases worldwide; up to 45 million cases in the US
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Hopkins medicine.org