Consider that the reason some of the authorities are so resistant to any kind of admission

of error in their actions on Wuhan would be in large part- at least by now- because they know what'll happen if, after pushing some of this shit and a lot of the damage done, they admit "Yes, we screwed up, and we suspected/knew the dangers of what we were pushing, but WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING!"

Lots of tree ornaments, for one.