2/ And, sure, maybe China had some deaths at home (just like Italy) during the peak of its epidemic. BJT WHAT IF THE TRUTH IS... that the real secret China was hiding was that it realized by late February that #SARS_CoV2 WASN’T that dangerous...

3/ That the transmission rate was very high and the lockdowns didn’t necessarily help and the infection fatality rate was far lower than scientists who didn’t have access to its databases knew...

4/ And what if its rulers realized that they had discovered a remarkably effective way to get the United States to blow up its economy and cede global leadership - just sit back and let the US of A panic!

5/ And best of all (from the CCP POV)!where’s the risk? You don’t go to war with a country for sending you a not-that-deadly virus. Obviously, I have no evidence to support this idea - it is, as journalists say sometimes, too good to check. But hey, it’s late, we’re friends...