You mean the death toll is over 300,000, infected cases over 8,000,000? Possible. Ironically, 100x scale-up would make the China containment of covid-19 much more impressive.
I'm just referencing what I've read. You rarely/never know the truth. When someone has an agenda, they're likely to say anything.
Whether they "understated" (lied) by a factor of 20x or 100x... the bottom line is they the likely lied about the severity.
The point was not economic comparability, rather chances of successfully implementing something like that. China will refuse to pay so at that point you have to sanction them... which is going to be incredibly painful for the economy since they are the world's second superpower.
truer words were never spoken imho. here's a little background on that fine sport of gain of function bioweapon research. pandora is a bitch if ever there was one, lol. The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (BWATA) was drafted by University of Illinois international law professor Francis A. Boyle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Anti-Terrorism_Act_of_1989 Gain of Function Activity reseach was outlawed in the US but then re-allowed on a special case basis to the U of NCarolina.
Yep, and they closed Woohan province and let Chinese 400k plus fly to US. Hade to compare, I’m in big NY area, had friends died, participated in recovery. However this even much worse. I don’t mind they lied, who would trust them... They made war act against the whole word. Not in purpose but to cover up or by stupidity... They should pay.....