It sure was a convenient way to stop the Hong Kong protests and develop new neighborhood quarantine methods that could be deployed at a moments notice on a compliant public, though as the other comment says the timing could also have been an accident.
Shutting down foreign economies, encouraging lockdowns through a bot propaganda campaign on twitter, and helping the Democrats steal the US election was a side benefit. Never let a crisis go to waste.
It sure was a convenient way to stop the Hong Kong protests and develop new neighborhood quarantine methods that could be deployed at a moments notice on a compliant public, though as the other comment says the timing could also have been an accident.
Shutting down foreign economies, encouraging lockdowns through a bot propaganda campaign on twitter, and helping the Democrats steal the US election was a side benefit. Never let a crisis go to waste.