Nature article from 2017 discussing concerns about the biosafety level 4 (handles most dangerous pathogens) opening in Wuhan. As much fun as bat soup memes are, it seems to me that this is a much more likely source of the coronavirus.
Check out the picture of their central monitoring room - JANKY
I don't understand Chinese so I would need someone to verify the source, but this just came to me from a friend. Link included below for those of you that can read Chinese.
The population of Wuhan went abroad before the city was frozen:
Singapore: 9934
Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok): 9853
Don Mueang Airport (Bangkok): 7920
Narita Airport (Japan): 6739
Incheon International Airport (South Korea): 6135
Hong Kong: 5866
Macao: 5647
Phuket Island (Thailand): 5617
Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia): 5418
Kansai Airport (Japan): 5218
Taoyuan Airport (Radio): 3679
Tp. Ho Chi Minh: 3652
Dubai: 3180
San Francisco: 2925
Istanbul: 2650
Heathrow Airport (London): 2650
Nagoya (Japan): 2521
Bali: 2520
Kaohsiung (Radio): 2487
New York: 2484
Roma: 2385
Sheremetyevo Airport (Moscow): 2313
Sydney: 2169
Paris: 1971
Sihanoukville (Cambodia): 1539
Siem Reap (Cambodia): 1539
Chiang Mai: 1422
Mandalay (Myanmar): 1190
Tung Son (Dai): 1080
Kalibo (Philippines): 600
Yangon (Myanmar): 492
Krabi (Thailand): 340
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/M5R-FlU_xSbfZ2kEthiCJg](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/M5R-FlU_xSbfZ2kEthiCJg?fbclid=IwAR2erqJwpIOQNd8lUbgIbI
Only the Chinese govermment can confirm the above figures.
One more…
Event 201 Scenario was a global pandemic exercise held in Oct 2019… check the summary below
The Event 201 scenario
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.
The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.
There is no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year. There is a fictional antiviral drug that can help the sick but not significantly limit spread of the disease.
Since the whole human population is susceptible, during the initial months of the pandemic, the cumulative number of cases increases exponentially, doubling every week. And as the cases and deaths accumulate, the economic and societal consequences become increasingly severe.
The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html?fbclid=IwAR3mezI9ljeWjFEcOoa0B72gvmKEtnjBR9w80MBuDPj58-4LvqtrW9_iYus
Hosted by Johns Hopkins, World Economic Forum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.