Totally, and also it is very important. In some Turkish-speaking forums I follow, some people already blame the "Chinese way of living" for such a disaster. This disassociation has been even too late, I'd say.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/coronavi...
And it happened before, with SARS in 2003:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...