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Website proprietor Ron Unz has written tens of thousands of words, developing his theory that Covid was introduced in Wuhan by government operatives at the World Military Games. If I understand his theory correctly, he thinks the virus then spread to the rest of the world when these visitors returned to their home countries or military bases.

However, I don't think this is possible because I've identified too many very convincing 'early spread" cases from early November (if not earlier) in dozens of U.S. cities and states. I simply don't think even a contagious virus could spread that quickly to so many far-away cities simultaneously. IMO the virus was already infecting large numbers of people in all these places (at least 17 states, per my research.)

But if Unz is right, I still don't understand why China officials waited until mid-January 2020 to lockdown their country and Wuhan, ostensibly "to stop spread." If the virus was so contagious that it made hundreds of WMG visitors instantly sick in October 2019, it would have ripped through the entire city as all of these infected WMG visitors had numerous interactions with Wuhan citizens.

Why lockdown your country for a virus that had begun to spread or infect so many people three months earlier? This doesn't make sense to me.

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I should add one possible reason China might have locked down Wuhan so hard in mid or late January 2020. It's possible their leaders thought one of their enemies may have seeded/released a deadly virus on their country/this city ... and they were, perhaps, trying to save their citizens from what would qualify as as an act of war. However, I don't think this scenario seems that plausible as China has its own intelligence agencies and must have known about the hundreds of athletes who did, in fact, get sick with Covid symptoms at the World Military Games in October. If that was Covid that made at least some of those visitors sick, that would mean the virus had been spreading in this city for at least three months - which would mean lockdowns to stop spread in January 2020 were futile. But, for some unknown reason, they went ahead and locked down this city anyway.

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