You may find this interesting and informative:
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.weblog.htm#e200125
China’s coronavirus spreads across China and around the world
Xi Jinping may lose the Mandate from Heaven
Ironically, reading about the 1918 flu.
When it started or arrived in China, the Emperor tried to stop it. The failure was sited as one reason the revolutions started.