To be fair, so far there are ~75000 to 80000 cases of Coronavirus in a county of 1.3 Billion people. As such, the probability that this happened now (let alone several days ago) to someone in his close family (10 members) is 0.06%.
in the last dev update posted he mentioned Chinese new year and hometown/holiday, so that is the source of "China" theory here.
Patreon shut his page down, nothing to do with any virus.
Not that I know how it works, but people were saying he deleted his own patreon. I'm guessing from how it appeared. I think it would say it was banned or something if it was (not sure though).
So many complain and give no money, and whats the worst is the ones that give nothing complain the most. Im surprised half these games don't just disappear. Was a good game, had a change of pace compared to some 50 games on here that are all the same as each other but different titles.
He was probably being more general with games and people both.
you can't have a list like that without The Humbling Experience
