5) and 7) Right now, every country is focussed on containing the pandemic and dealing with its fallout - both human and economic. Three months down the road, when the pandemic is hopefully under better control, i fear that the blame games will start in earnest. While we can hope for saner heads to prevail, the US is going through an election year and this pandemic has the potential for upsetting the incumbent's odds - the response to which may go make this debate get more heated. Information is very local - i very much doubt that the CCP will be able to materially influence the common man's views about the source of the virus and i doubt that the democrats would want to take the CCP line either..