Neither SARS nor COVID-19 had ever touched Xi, yet he was painfully aware of the devastation a plague could bring.
Among the omens of disaster, a plague was counted as one of the Five Calamities, standing alongside warfare, corrosive rain, heavenly fire, and bestial tides. With no other calamities in sight at present, this was surely not the gathering storm before the descent of some catastrophic beast.
"The young brother speaks with good sense."
Chapter 188