[burger]

This is f***ing bullsh**.  I'm supposed to believe that they had a covid-19 outbreak last October that was big enough to show up in satellite imagery and internet searches, but it didn't spread anywhere else until January? 

Not a chance.

Also, that graph in the article is one of the worst I've ever seen.  The trendline is horribly overfit (i.e. there's no trend here). 

The link in the article isn't working but it looks like a preprint or unpublished report.

[burger]

This is f***ing bullsh**.  I'm supposed to believe that they had a covid-19 outbreak last October that was big enough to show up in satellite imagery and internet searches, but it didn't spread anywhere else until January? 

Not a chance.

Also, that graph in the article is one of the worst I've ever seen.  The trendline is horribly overfit (i.e. there's no trend here). 

The link in the article isn't working but it looks like a preprint or unpublished report.