Let's try a little thought experiment. Just for fun. To pass the time while we're indefinitely locked down inside our homes, compulsively checking the Covid-19 "active cases" and "total death" count, washing our hands every twenty minutes, and attempting not to touch our faces.
Before we do, though, I want to make it clear that I believe this Covid-19 thing is real, and is probably the deadliest threat to humanity in the history of deadly threats to humanity.
According to the data I've been seeing, it's only a matter of days, or hours, until nearly everyone on earth is infected and is either dying in agony and alone or suffering mild, common cold-like symptoms, or absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.
I feel that I need to state this clearly, before we do our thought experiment, because I don't want anyone mistakenly thinking that I'm one of those probably Russian-backed Nazis who are going around saying, "it's just the flu," or who are spreading dangerous conspiracy theories about bio-weapons and martial law, or who are otherwise doubting or questioning the wisdom of locking down the entire world (and likely triggering a new Great Depression) on account of the discovery of some glorified bug.
Obviously, this is not just the flu. Thousands of people are dying from it. OK, sure, the flu kills many more than that, hundreds of thousands of people annually,
but this Covid-19 virus is totally new, and not like any of the other millions of viruses that are going around all the time, and the experts are saying it will probably kill, or seriously sicken, or briefly inconvenience, millions or even billions of people if we don't lock down entire countries and terrorize everyone into submission.
Comment: A question remains: why is this affecting one province (Bergamo) of one region (Lombardy) of northern Italy so badly?
We don't have the answer to that, but it's noteworthy that China took this seriously enough to take the measures it did in Wuhan, and to identify the culprit ('COVID-19'), and to crack its genome, and to inform the world about it, including what did and did not work to mitigate its effects and save however many lives.
Italy, the EU, the US, NATO, and the haughty 'Western Order', did NOT.
Incidentally, this revelation of a 'strange pneumonia outbreak' last Fall fits with our own direct experience. One of our editors contracted what we suspected was 'cryptogenic pneumonia' - which is a cover-all term experts use for 'pneumonia of unknown origin' - in early December.
Several physicians, however, couldn't diagnose it, believing instead that what they were seeing in lung scans was cancer. Biopsies, however, ruled this out. Even then they would NOT consider a viral source!
Coronavirus may very well have been out among the world population for much longer than thought. If that's the case, it shows just how groundless the current fear panic is - and worse, how it's being driven by nefarious geopolitical and social engineering interests.