because that BS hurts China a lot more than you think. Masks are selling online for 10K USD a pack due to hysteria. Rumours are spreading on Chinese social media that the government arrested the researchers who discovered it in a coverup effort. Falungong and other propaganda experts are exploiting and weaponising the crisis as we speak. Americans are already accusing China of having engineered this virus as a bioweapon: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/a-pro-trump-blog-has-doxed-a-chinese-scientist-it-falsely

No more "said to be" stuff unless you can cite someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Don't assume those who loot a burning house actually set the fire!