Not good: Analysts who study disinformation said this was the first time they had seen this scale of amplification between Beijing and Moscow around a conspiracy theory. nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/…
Imposing a travel quarantine on a city the size of 11 million is a big deal. Understandably, some people will not want to stay. During SARS, the party had to mobilize citizens to report on each other and set up roadblocks to check people for fevers. nytimes.com/2020/01/22/wor…
A big challenge is that we know so little about this new coronavirus, how it is transmitted and what the early signs are. If the symptoms are less severe, as they seem to be, it will be more difficult to detect and contain.
During SARS, they basically tried to confine everyone with a fever. I remember driving across northeastern China and seeing roadblocks at every highway exit and the entrance to every village. People were afraid and wanted to keep strangers out.