On January 18th, the Wuhan neighborhood of Baibuting staged a potluck dinner with 40,000 people in honor of the kitchen god—and in a bid for a Guinness World Record for the number of dishes served. The mayor of Wuhan told a television interviewer later, after gatherings of people in Wuhan had been banned, that the party was allowed because they still thought that human-to-human spread was limited.
