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What happened)] TJ ET BT 35.000 417.118 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(in China produced panicky predictions in the early modellers. These, in turn, were wrong by orders of magnitude,)] TJ ET BT 35.000 402.862 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(and none of these drastic predictions came true. Why? The well-behaved schoolboy answer to this question is:)] TJ ET BT 35.000 388.606 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(Yes, because we took drastic action like lockdowns and so on. This answer is wrong, as I have discussed many)] TJ ET BT 35.000 374.350 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(times before. So why the contradiction? In this post, I will shed light on these two aspects. 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But this)] TJ ET BT 35.000 244.054 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(much can be said: the book is perhaps one of the best journalistic books I have read on the subject. Sharry)] TJ ET BT 35.000 229.798 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(Markson is an Australian journalist who has talked extensively to Chinese whistleblowers, to US politicians and)] TJ ET BT 35.000 215.542 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(to intelligence people from different services, and in this book she sets out her findings in an extremely exciting)] TJ ET BT 35.000 201.286 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(way a thriller could hardly be more exciting and is more often worse written than this book.)] TJ ET BT 35.000 175.030 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(Their findings in brief: The virus almost certainly broke out in Wuhan as early as October 2019, presumably just)] TJ ET BT 35.000 160.774 Td /F1 12.0 Tf [(before or while the World Military Olympics were taking place there. 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