>On that note, from the very beginning China's reaction appeared extreme and overbearing No, it actually did not. It was clear that they tried to hide it and d

>On that note, from the very beginning China's reaction appeared extreme and overbearing No, it actually did not. It was clear that they tried to hide it and downplay it in the beginning. But once the cat was out of the bag and you could see picture of clinics overcrowding, they figured out it as quite deadly. They were able to use both the lessons of SARS(due to which people were much more amenable to drastic measures) and being a totalitarian regime to suppress it.