What happened in Wuhan when there weren't enough test kits and hospital beds

It makes you think of systems thinkers like Donella Meadows and her writing on ecological systems, growth and leverage points. You can go straight from lack of sick leave, to viral spread at the workplace, to shutting down trade routes, to lack of masks in the hospital, to doctors themselves being infected, reinforcing and multiplying the situation and so on.

The question will be if people after this finally go back to the drawing board and we ask ourselves if we need to make systemic changes to how we organise ourselves because even after this situation is over, there's the chance we get something ten times worse in the future. As Russ Ackoff said, an architect designs the house before they improve the rooms but I sadly doubt we'll be wiser this time.

This is why I don't entirely trust their claimed recovery. Because an authoritarian government requires respect and/or fear in order to rule, face becomes a priority above all else. You simply cannot trust such governments. This wouldn't be the first time that the Chinese government has lied about something significant, and the Soviet Union is also an appropriate precedent.