Probably not, people would "notice the bodies piling up in the corner" and change their behavior if friends and relatives start dying and you'd see that in term

Probably not, people would "notice the bodies piling up in the corner" and change their behavior if friends and relatives start dying and you'd see that in terms of how full restaurants are, etc. It's not like the Hunanese government was all that good at keeping the scale of the original outbreak secret.