Molson Hart

It would... Had those cities not been locked down a day after Wuhan.

Your argument assumes that the country is totally water-tight in its control, not only domestically, but internationally (air, sea, and land). IMHO, that's mathematically impossible. Too many people, borders, interactions. Also, China didn't know what was happening in Italy.

It doesn't have to be water tight, it just needs to reduce spread from 3.8 to 1.3 which have exponential effects down the line in the total number of cases. Even America's half assed stay home order is going to reduce spread. Just look at Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore's

imported case numbers, the Lying Chinese exported an order of magnitude less cases to those heavy screeners than travelers arriving from the West.

March 31: 0 domestic cases. 48 imported. March 30: 1 domestic cases. 30 imported. March 29: 0. 45. March 28: 0. 54. This is not 1.3. This is .001. I may continue this later. I have to finish some work. Thanks for calling me innumerate, idiot.

An innumerate and illiterate. Xinhua actually releases a daily asymptomatic pre-sympomatic list of confirmed sars-cov2 infected that's averaged like 30 infected in addition to imported cases. 0 domestic Covid-19 cases is media playing "gotcha" by not even reporting every case.

The figures are only that low now 2 months later because China quarantined ALL suspect contacts pretty much lowering spread to 0.3 since start of February. If the US sent every close contact of a confirmed infected at gunpoint to a Fema camp you can also kill the virus too.