But unlike in the US - where college party goers are being preemptively "scapegoated" while schools defy experts and "science" by sending sick students home en masse since they simply don't possess the will or, perhaps, the competence, to quarantine them on campus - the Communist Party defended the pool party by arguing that it was a much-needed release for the people of Wuhan.

After suffering through one of the first, and most restrictive, global lockdowns, the people of Wuhan have defeated the virus, a party spokesman said. The party was one of their rewards.

Now, the Financial Times is reporting on the return of the nightlife scene in China. Revelers have returned to China's nightclubs and bars at a faster pace than perhaps anywhere else in the world. In the US, bars and nightclubs have been closed and blamed for causing the outbreak across the Sun Belt that peaked over the summer. South Korea has also blamed its nightlife for an outbreak that, as it turned out, was largely the result of tests picking up asymptomatic people who were infected elsewhere.