While @POTUS' reaction to the Chinese virus may be at least, in part, cover for the battle against the treasonous deep state, I believe there is more to it. His is a reaction one would only expect, if there were a deliberate attack using a weaponized virus.

The Chinese virus looks to be less a threat than the latest couple of flu strains that have hit the U.S. over the last several years. Yet the U.S. and its economy and government are going through more severe convulsions than were caused by the Spanish flu of a century ago. And that pandemic killed 50,000,000 worldwide.

POTUS knows more and has a better grasp of the deeper strategic situation than I. But, if the most superficial "natural virus with .2% - .8% mortality gets away from Chinese ability to control it and spreads throughout the world" explanation is all there is to it, then we have gone through way too much melodrama.