Anons, apologies if this has already been covered, but I hadn't seen it. Any chance the reference to "When do you call a plumber?" in q1279 might be referring to this guy who died on Feb 4th?

Frank Plummer, former head of Canada's NML, the same lab that 2 Chinese were recently escorted from by RCMP just before the Coronovirus thing kicked off.

Source: https://winnipeg .ctvnews.ca/mobile/frank-plummer-former-head-of-the-national-microbiology-lab-dead-at-67-1.4797116