Why do you doubt that US intel knew about a serious outbreak in January? Do you think they aren’t good enough to notice that Dr. Li’s warning was blowing up all over Chinese forums shortly after he released the info on Dec. 30?
Because there is no evidence of it.It sounds like you’re assuming that US intel is so incompetent that it doesn’t monitor trending topics on Chinese forums. Is that right?
I've been wondering how they missed this so badly. It has to be incompetence. Even on reddit, it was clear in mid jan what was going on there. How could the US gov not know? They really must be incompetent.