To keep up with my new articles on the so-called "epidemic," it really helps to read my earlier pieces. I don't recapitulate all the relevant facts every time I sit down to write. If I did, I'd be posting books instead of articles.
So...as I write this one, about 40 million Chinese citizens are on lockdown and quarantine in their cities. This is truly extraordinary. One US vaccine-funding official was heard to say China was a "silver lining" in the coronavirus epidemic---because that government is able to exert so much control over its people and, therefore, help contain the epidemic.