Wuhan was also having hong kong style protests though not on the same scale but the ccp couldn't crack down militarily or face the same international backlash as they would over cracking down in hong kong. France was having the same issues as Macron couldn't really sic the storm troopers on them or face backlash. But now this virus has shut down protests all over the planet including the almost to a boil iran protests. Odd that all the worst cases of infection are the places that were resisting the globalists.