The Wuhan Coronavirus

[Mister Obvious]

I get the "sacrifice the few to save the many" thing but that doesn't
make it any easier to swallow.

They're trying to save the infrastructure... I don't think it's about saving the people.

So they're basically saying re: all but 11 cities, they don't care what happens to the infrastructure in all those other cities, they're only going to expend their resources protecting the infrastructure in the selected cities.