haven't read the thread, don't know anything either.
Conservative "Old Asia Hand" Gordon Chang says China is under-reporting, about 10% of actual, and that Xi is "missing in action", and that the concentration camps are fully involved. If you could believe that...… I mean..... who knows. Who would ever expect the Chinese to fully report anything.
And there's questions about the origins, as early cases really didn't involve the "wet markets". AKA a research lab origin.
I don't believe even China would deliberately create and release a deadly disease that would in fact cripple their economy and trade, but human stupidity isn't limited to the Britiswh Peerage, in my estimation.
Already there are economic impacts from plants closed in outbreak areas and no parts for assemblage offshore on the way to assembly plants around the world, affecting automotive production and computer components......
Trump will need to go find Xi and work out some way to help solve this crisis if he wants the Stock Market to keep rising.