China had dispatched detachments of specialists to evaluate the unknown disease in mid December. They knew they were facing a new coronavirus ala SARS end of De

China had dispatched detachments of specialists to evaluate the unknown disease in mid December. They knew they were facing a new coronavirus ala SARS end of December and started closing Wuhan then other provinces in January. Not the chill lockdown like Europe, real lockdown where they close all transports, scan all citizens at checkpoints and have the police beatup people going out without masks. Napping is not the word for that.