As luck would have it, my mother-in-law who lives in Hubei was visiting my brother-in-law in Beijing for Chinese New Year (January 25). Arrived a week early. She was stuck there until a week ago. Didn't leave the small apartment for over 2 months. They really enforced social distancing and it was quite effective because very few people got sick in Beijing and numbers were lower than they could have been in Wuhan. Chinese leaders were in a panic about the virus. Official deaths were suppressed but Chinese citizens knew because there were more funeral urns purchased in Wuhan than reported deaths. There is no way the Chinese government was responsible for starting the virus. The propaganda effort extended to the severity and their response to the virus, which was covered up at the beginning.
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