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@BBCYaldaHakim It is an interesting observation. I can't help but wonder whether this would be 10x worse in terms of spread and numbers if it had happened in a more open and less authoritarian regime?

China’s Chernobyl? The coronavirus outbreak leads to a loaded metaphor “Many linked the official ineptitude in present-day China and the Soviet Union’s final years and hinted that the Wuhan virus was something of a Chernobyl moment” washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/…