I think this is correct - China put staged viral videos out through social media to scare all the people in the west, to make us believe that the worst plague ever was coming so we'd be willing to crash our country. They know very well how social media works.

Remember the montage of drunk Iranians lying in various gutters, which was supposed to be people dying of La Corona™? That was a good one.

I do not know of a single person who needed a ventilator. And I know alot of people. Remember how many ventilators we didn't have? None of them got used at all!!!