With a billion Chinese living like sardines then when someone yells plague we can expect panic.
"If the goal was to avoid stirring panic at home, the effect may have been the opposite. In the absence of clarifying, calming information from their government, Chinese people have been venting fear and concern on Weibo and other social media platforms. Their fear may be fueled by the role played by Chaoyang Hospital, which Beijing residents remember well from the 2003 SARS epidemic, when the authorities hid victims of that epidemic in the hospital, denying for weeks that the virus had even reached Beijing."
The Chinese population will instinctively know not to trust the stalinist Ministry of Information. Anything with a stalinist connection should never be trusted.
