Why did the Chinese government suddenly lock down Wuhan, a metropolis of approximately 11 million people?
Building on Professor Yasuhiko Kamikubo’s discussion of COVID-19 from the standpoint of immunology, this article, written on July 30, 2020, questions the meaning of the Wuhan lockdown, what Xi Jinping knew, and the possibility of a laboratory leak.

2020-07-30
This article was written on July 30, 2020, following my previous article introducing a dialogue between Professor Yasuhiko Kamikubo and Eitaro Ogawa concerning COVID-19 and herd immunity.
Professor Kamikubo discussed the novel coronavirus from the medical standpoint of viruses, immunity, and herd immunity.
This article, however, focused on a different question: why the Chinese government placed Wuhan, a city of approximately 11 million people, under an extraordinary lockdown.
Taking as its starting point Professor Kamikubo’s remark, “Rather, the problem was that Wuhan did not conceal the spread of infection [laughs],” the article asks what lay behind the decision to lock down Wuhan and connects that question to the argument I had repeatedly advanced at the time concerning a possible laboratory leak.
The following is a faithful translation of the original article dated July 30, 2020.
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“In other words, the Wuhan lockdown that shocked the world demonstrated that, to them, human life was of little consequence.
But was Xi Jinping really such a fool?”
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Professor Kamikubo’s observations constitute an extraordinarily suggestive argument by a genuine researcher.
He is discussing immunity as an immunologist.
He says, “Rather, the problem was that Wuhan did not conceal the spread of infection [laughs].”
He treats it as a joke.
But it is also common knowledge that this is not something that can simply be dismissed as a joke.
His joke inadvertently brings two things into sharp relief.
If his joke were entirely true, Xi Jinping would be an utterly extraordinary fool.
Moreover, quite apart from his being one of the worst dictators in history, it would mean that, to them, even if Wuhan, a city of approximately 11 million people, disappeared—even if every one of its inhabitants died—it would not constitute a major problem.
In other words, the Wuhan lockdown that shocked the world demonstrated that, to them, human life was of little consequence.
But,
was Xi Jinping really such a fool?
There must have been a reason for suddenly locking down a metropolis of 11 million people.
In other words, Xi Jinping knew that the true nature of the Wuhan virus was that it was their biological and chemical weapon, and that it had leaked from a laboratory.
As my readers know, I intuitively concluded that the latter was the case and have continued to refer to it.
Professor Kamikubo’s argument is academically entirely correct and admirable.
But regarding the true nature of the Wuhan virus, it is my argument that hits the mark.