Dr. Li Wenliang, heroic doctor attacked by Chinese government for trying to tell truth about coronavirus. He died of it this week
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative: Plague Pushes China To Breaking Point
Read this stunning comment left by “Wyoming Doc,” a physician in Wyoming (whose name I know) whose wife is an immigrant from China:
Has been a while since I last wrote anything. I have had the flu and have been home with my wife for the past several days. It has been fascinating. Our satellite TV provider has a service wherein you can subscribe to the People’s Republic official TV station.
There have now been four occasions where I have witnessed on live Chinese national TV public officials being frog-marched out of press conferences in hand irons. Their crimes? One had his mask on upside down. One did not have a mask on at all. One was stating (translated by my wife) that he had repeatedly been telling Beijing about the problems for weeks – and there was no response. One was answering every question with obvious double-speak (not unlike listening to Nancy Pelosi or Ted Cruz). Shortly into the press conferences, young men from the PLA show up – slapped on the hand irons – and hauled them out and in all 4 cases – it was just stunned silence in the rooms. My wife just casually tells me – “no one will ever see them again.”
It is also clear to me as a physician – listening to the Chinese doctors – and viewing footage from the hospitals and clinics – that this is many orders of magnitude worse than what they are saying. Common sense will tell you that as well – are they really going to torpedo their entire industrial heartland for months – just because 300 people have died? — I think not – I think this is way worse than we can possibly imagine.
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WNU Editor: All my friends and contacts in China have been telling me this weekend that when it comes to the coronavirus they have been seeing and experiencing some surreal moments. The above post reflects some of what I have been hearing.
7 comments:
No, China will not break, but the China post-coronavirus will so different that outsiders will much difficulty recognizing it. Even the Chinese themselves (government officials especially) will have difficulty.
Chinese are just like anyone else. Period. Full Stop.
China is doomed
Europe lost a 3rd of its population 800 years ago due to the Black Death. Life was very good for peasants afterwards. Things were better for them viz-a-viz the nobility after the plague.
Europe survived and prospered and so will China.
Coronavirus mass arrests: Eighty-six people die of virus in a DAY in China as Beijing starts rounding up sufferers and videos show hazmat suit-clad goons dragging people from their homes while death toll hits 724
A clip believed to be taken in Changqing Garden, Wuhan, shows a man sprinting away from a group of officials
Some officials appear to be carrying large metal sticks as they run after him along nearly-deserted streets
On Saturday officials confirmed 722 coronavirus deaths in mainland China, bringing worldwide total to 724
Also revealed five more Britons, including a child, have virus in France after one of them went to Singapore
Another clip, said to be taken in Suzhou, shows suspected coronavirus sufferers dragged from their homes
Officials in protective suits and face masks are seen walking two of the people out while holding their arms
A third man then resists by kicking out and it takes three officials to pick him up and forcefully remove him
Sorry, still to early to make any judgements. Ok, I might seem optimistic, but there is a natural thing going on here. Before criticizing me, how many deaths compared to the common flu anyone? Let’s get enough data before passing judgement.
Albeit, I am sure this will change eating practices in China.
Cheers!
What the Chinese are doing is not much different than what schools do with vaccinations.
I like how Philoctetes, who defended Jussie Smollett to the hilt last year, parrots the exact wording that the Daily Mail used. The word is "goons". A mind so pliable, so susceptible, to media manipulation. Poor thing just can't say "No!".
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