I have traveled to China a number of times for business and have traveled extensively in the major population areas and rural areas.
When you look at China as a country, they are rather unique. China is a bit bigger than the US geographically and their population in 1.4 billion vs US at 330 million with much of their population in the eastern 1/3 of the country. One of the things that really amazed me in my travels, was the population densities. Beijing has 21 million people and Shanghai has 24 million. They consider a small city to be around 5 million people.
Over the last 20-30 years, China has had a Govt driven policy to move from an agriculture based society to an industrialized nation. This has meant moving millions of people to city centers. The population density is unique as you can travel 500-600 miles between 2 large cities and not see another city.
Sanitation and hygiene standards not very good. Go to most public restrooms and you are doing #1 & #2 in a hole in the floor. There would be a flush button; however, you had better have good aim to make the shot

You won't always find hand wash sinks or soap either.
Regardless of how the CV started, China is set-up perfectly for rapid and uncontrolled spread of the virus. Primary mode of transportation is by train. Approximately 3.5 million people travel everyday by train, with 100 people in each car. On trains, the toilets empty directly on the train tracks. Train stations can be very congested with people and people travel extensively between the major cities every day. In my last 8 day trip, I traveled with my rep almost 7,000 miles in the major city centers and the rural areas via train and we traveled everyday.
China is a great country with wonderful people as I was treated very well wherever I traveled. As a communist country, information is not freely shared and news going through the chains of commands gets "massaged" as no one wants to deliver the bad news. They are also not used to freely communicating upwards as we are.
Given the above, good chance that the CV spread way faster than anyone knew. I don't always believe in conspiracy theories as often times is & events occur due to incompetence even thou you can try and connect the dots otherwise.
Hopefully this get this thing controlled as people promoting our open boarders policy are putting every American at significant risk.
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