Maximum security biolab opened a few years ago in...ahem... Wuhan, China

1/23/2020

Now, this is interesting...
Some scientists outside China worried about pathogens escaping, and the addition of a biological dimension to geopolitical tensions between China and other nations. But Chinese microbiologists celebrated their entrance to the elite cadre empowered to wrestle with the world’s greatest biological threats a couple of years ago.

www.nature.com/...
Putting a Bioweapons research facility near a thriving metropolis of 10 million... that’s about as dumb as putting Plum Island lab outside of NYC.
I’ve heard people saying it’s a possible bioweapon that’s been unleashed on accident, it would make sense considering all the precautions they are taking on the city. The entire city is locked down no travel in or out allowed.
17 out of 500 is a fairly high mortality rate. Thousands of times more than the flu.

Killing all your hosts doesn't do anything for the spread of your disease. You need the rate of infection at the very least to outstrip the rate of fatality.
Two Chinese megacities now under lockdown
Huanggang (population 6 million) is now under lockdown, too. Ezhou has closed down major railway stations.
This is getting serious.

Almost 20 million people in central Chinese cities of Huanggang, Ezhou and Wuhan now effectively confined after lockdown #coronavirus https://t.co/VcAZfGHc1q
— Narayanan Somasundaram (@Sonarayanan) January 23, 2020

And it seems even more cities are put on the line just now!

BREAKING: Chinese officials say a 3rd city, Chibi with a population of nearly half a million, will be put on lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus
— BNO News (@BNONews) January 23, 2020