[panarky]

You may be right about China.

But the author of this article is not an epidemiologist.

He is not an expert on infectious diseases.

He is a former Republican congressman and a retired plastic surgeon.

Since Republican leaders have consistently lied about the pandemic for their own political advantage, and this author has no particular expertise in the matter, I'll make the inference that he has nothing constructive to add to this conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ganske