Saw some pretty awful video out of China today.  I can’t verify its authenticity, so I won’t post it, but it looks legitimate to me, and the source is trustworthy.  If it is, the timeline will have gone something like this: the virus starts in Wuhan when a communist eats an under-cooked bat for Christmas.  Of course, the communists don’t celebrate Christmas, so the timing is just a coincidence.  The virus instantly begins to spread with alarming rapidity.  Chinese doctors sound the alarm.  Those doctors are either arrested or killed by the government.  But the word is out, so China responds to all inquiries by downplaying the virus, stating explicitly there have been no instances of human-to-human spreading.  The first reported death is January 11.  The government continues to attempt to downplay everything for another week or so, but the virus is spreading far more rapidly than expected, so on January 23, the government locks down the entire city of Wuhan, which is over 11 million people.  The world praises China’s draconian actions, meanwhile more doctors are arrested and “disappeared,” and for the next two weeks, much of China’s massive army is deployed domestically, with soldiers going door to door and forcibly taking everyone’s temperature.  Any household found to have a member with a temperature is literally welded shut, leaving the occupants trapped and left for dead.  Reporting of this gets out.  So China expels all American journalists on March 16.  The government immediately stops testing for coronavirus.  A few days later, the government announces that there are suddenly no new cases of coronavirus and declares victory of the virus.  Anecdotal reporting by Chinese dissidents indicates as many as 90,000 cases had already overrun Wuhan hospitals by mid-January, and video surfaces allegedly showing corpses stacked in the hallways of hospitals.  Though China continues to report no new cases, the Wuhan lockdown failed to contain the virus, and now many of the larger coastal cities of China are being absolutely ravaged.  At the end of march, squads of government agents appear in the affected cities, wearing hazmat suites and armed with rifles, going door to door executing the sick.  Within 72 hours, the virus has been effectively eliminated.  China then sends millions of masks and assorted other PPE to the United States and other countries throughout the world (since they won’t be needing them any more).  On April 7, yesterday, China lifts the lockdown on Wuhan.
I’m guessing it will be quite some time before American journalists are allowed to return.

N.P.: “Off” – Diorama