Trimesh
Banned
Do you really trust Winnie the Pooh to have been 100% accurate with numbers from day one? They did the bare minimum and only did so once everyone was looking their way.
Trust is irrelevant here though - just the actions the Chinese were taking made it very obvious that they considered the situation sufficiently critical that they were willing to shut down half the country to fight it. I find the claim that this somehow "induced a false sense of security" in you bizarre, because it had exactly the opposite effect on me.