+1 on Twitter anticipating this. I'm not a regular Twitter user by any means (it really didn't catch in the parts of the world where I live) but this platform was the only one in the Western world where one could see some of the real videos coming out of Wuhan/Hubei as the virus had just began to do its thing, and those videos had some "punch in the face" effect on people like me (as in: this thing is real).

At the same time the traditional Western media was just publishing some numbers (which never tell the real story) and were insisting on the political aspect of it all.