On 5), surely all that PRC needs to do is to show the case graph in China and Europe/America separately since January, with the long period of hardly nothing in the latter and the explosion in recent weeks that started with the End of the Chinese crisis, superimposed with timings of border closures, what WHO was saying before and during those weeks and what Western Europe and North America were doing at the same time.

There is no question in my mind where the failures have been. First one at the beginning and the second one, the 2nd half of Feb and early March. The first one is arguably excuseable. The second, absolutely not! As for accountability, each government needs to be held accountable to their own people. Shifting the blame to jonhnny foreigners simply wont do.

I hope the world is civilised enough in the 21st century not to resort to politics/race based scapegoating in the face of something as serious and universal as this. We should all be big and mature enugh to admit to and learn from mistakes. Alas, so far, there s no sign of it.

Meanwhile, having escaped Switzerland (10x the infection density of China), am hiding in the english countryside, wondering if the whole thing s going to solve Western Europe's long term fiscal and demographic problem. Perish the thought? Has Chicom been too naive about this virus?! Self isolation fever (not literally, yet)?