Lots of numbers about the Chinese virus don't square with what we know, suggesting...

There are lots of...odd...things about the effects of the coronavirus.  So odd that they strongly suggest that many of the claimed stats are simply false.

Back in January the early data from Wuhan led researchers to conclude that each infected person, on average, infected about 2.5 additional people. That means the number of infected people could double every six days.

But later data now suggests that this estimate is actually an understatement. A new draft paper by a team of scholars at Los Alamos National Laboratory concludes that the Wuhan coronavirus is even more infectious than first thought. 

Researchers now estimate that the average infected Wuhan resident infected 5.7 other people. That’s enough to double the epidemic in fewer than three days.

Here’s the mystery:  Reportedly, the communist Chinese government allowed 5 million residents of Wuhan to leave that city before they locked it down in January.  Most of them presumably went to other cities in China.  And yet the communist government of China claims there have been no other major outbreaks in China.  Not in Beijing, not in Shanghai, not in Chengdu.

Meanwhile in other nations --both the U.S. and all over Europe--the virus has killed tens of thousands of people.

How can both these things be true simultaneously?  It doesn’t seem possible.  Either the virus is wildly infectious or it's not.  The simplest explanation is that the communist leaders of China--in an effort to save face--are lying their asses off about no more deaths, so as to make it appear to gullible western reporters that China (and by inference, communism) is far, far better than western capitalist nations.

A more sinister--and far less likely--explanation is that the Chinese had already developed and administered a vaccine in their large cities.

And yet for some reason no one in the American media has even asked about it.  That’s very strange.

At this point we have no explanation for why the coronavirus has killed roughly 100,000 people in the rest of the world, but only 3,300 or so in the first country to have the outbreak, China--and supposedly no one has died of it in Beijing or the rest of China.

If you believe that, I've got some prime real estate in Florida I'd like to show you.

Why are the thousands of members of "our" Lying Mainstream Media so totally uninterested in asking about this?   We should find out.
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H/T Tucker Carlson, who's far and away the best analyst and commentator on cable.