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A Chinese doctor was one of the first to warn about coronavirus. He got detained - and infected.
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Jade Helm
Feb 5, 2020, 12:41:56 PM2/5/20
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If there is cosmic justice, his detainers die from the coronavirus and
infected others in their organization.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-Chinese-doctor-was-one-of-the-first-to-warn-15028767.php
A Chinese doctor was one of the first to warn about coronavirus. He got
detained - and infected.
As word of a mysterious virus mounted, Li Wenliang shared suspicions in
a private chat with his fellow medical school alumni.
The doctor said that seven people seemed to have contracted SARS - the
respiratory illness that spread from China to more than two dozen
countries and left hundreds dead in the early 2000s. One patient was
quarantined at his hospital in Wuhan, Li said. He urged people to be
careful.
Li and seven other doctors were quickly summoned by Chinese authorities
for propagating "rumors" about SARS-like cases in the area - but their
warnings were prescient. Soon, health officials around the world would
be scrambling to combat a novel virus with a striking genetic
resemblance to SARS. The outbreak in Wuhan has exploded to more than
20,000 confirmed cases just in China.
Among the ill: the ophthalmologist who was censured for sounding an
early alarm.
"The diagnosis is finally confirmed," Li posted Jan. 31 on the social
media platform Weibo.
Li's situation has drawn rare acknowledgment of official missteps in
China, where a bureaucratic culture that prioritizes political stability
over all else probably allowed the new coronavirus to spread farther and
faster. Late last month, China's highest court admonished the Wuhan
police for the detentions.
"If society had at the time believed those 'rumors,' and wore masks,
used disinfectant and avoided going to the wildlife market as if there
were a SARS outbreak, perhaps it would've meant we could better control
the coronavirus today," the court said. "Rumors end when there is openness."
Li, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, had shared his
concerns the same day that Chinese authorities confirmed they were
investigating 27 cases of viral pneumonia. Officials at the epicenter in
Wuhan - the capital of Hubei province, where millions are now trapped in
an unprecedented lockdown - sent an "urgent notice" to all hospitals
about the existence of "pneumonia of unclear cause."
The notice ordered all departments to immediately compile information
about known cases and report them up their chain of command. But it did
not mention SARS or a coronavirus.
Li had posted a snippet of an RNA analysis finding "SARS coronavirus"
and extensive bacteria colonies in a patient's airways, according to a
chat transcript that he and other chat members later shared online.
On Jan. 1, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Li and the
others accused of fanning rumors. The detentions were reported on
"Xinwen Lianbo," a newscast watched by tens of millions.
The police followed up in the state-run Xinhua News Agency with a
chilling warning.
"The police call on all netizens to not fabricate rumors, not spread
rumors, not believe rumors," the Wuhan authorities said, adding that
they encouraged web users to "jointly build a harmonious, clear and
bright cyberspace."
As authorities cracked down, the outbreak was quickly worsening amid an
information vacuum. Wang Guangbao, a surgeon and popular science writer
in eastern China, later said speculation about a SARS-like virus was
rampant around Jan. 1 within medical circles, but the detentions
dissuaded many, including himself, from speaking openly about it.
"The eight posters getting seized made all of us doctors feel we were at
risk," he said.
Li was released by Wuhan police on Jan. 3 after signing a document
acknowledging he committed "illegal acts." The doctor, who did not
immediately respond to The Washington Post on Tuesday, later explained
to CNN that his family would "worry sick" about him "if I lose my
freedom for a few days." CNN reported that he was able to leave the
police station within about an hour.
He hurried back to work to see sick patients - and worked "normally" for
a while, he wrote on Weibo, tending to patients with the new coronavirus.
Then, on Jan. 10, he got a cough.
The next day, Li wrote, he had a fever, and by Jan. 12 he was in the
hospital. Tests for the virus he'd been scrutinizing came back negative,
but he was having a hard time breathing and moving.
China had yet to declare an emergency. That would come on Jan. 20, as
more than 400 million Chinese people prepared to travel home to mark the
Lunar New Year. A renowned pulmonologist appeared on state media to
announce that the new virus was transmissible between people, and
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for quick information-sharing and
"resolute efforts" to contain the virus.
Within days, all of Wuhan and several nearby cities - an area the size
of Washington state with more than 50 million people - were locked down.
Authorities raced to accommodate ballooning numbers of patients, working
to erect entire new hospitals.
By late January, officials were also acknowledging mistakes.
The Supreme People's Court's rebuked police for punishing Li and his
fellow doctors. Wuhan police said in a statement a day later that the
eight people summoned had committed only mild transgressions, spreading
"unverified information."
Officials gave "education and criticism" and did not fine or detain
people, the police said.
Li, who emphasized that his license has not been revoked, said he's been
cheered in the hospital by "netizens' support and encouragement." His
last post on Weibo, the Feb. 1 announcement of his latest test results,
drew tens of thousands of comments.
"Dr. Li, you are a good doctor with conscience," read one well-wisher's
message with more than 100,000 upvotes.
Another person counted Li among eight "prophets."
"The people of the whole country are in solidarity with you," the
commenter said.
- - -
The Washington Post's Lena H. Sun and Emily Rauhala contributed to this
report.
--
"Whoever said the the pen is mightier than the sword never met a man
with an automatic weapon." General Douglas MacArthur.
www.globalgulag.us
http://globalgulag.us/globalgulag/index.html
infected others in their organization.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-Chinese-doctor-was-one-of-the-first-to-warn-15028767.php
A Chinese doctor was one of the first to warn about coronavirus. He got
detained - and infected.
As word of a mysterious virus mounted, Li Wenliang shared suspicions in
a private chat with his fellow medical school alumni.
The doctor said that seven people seemed to have contracted SARS - the
respiratory illness that spread from China to more than two dozen
countries and left hundreds dead in the early 2000s. One patient was
quarantined at his hospital in Wuhan, Li said. He urged people to be
careful.
Li and seven other doctors were quickly summoned by Chinese authorities
for propagating "rumors" about SARS-like cases in the area - but their
warnings were prescient. Soon, health officials around the world would
be scrambling to combat a novel virus with a striking genetic
resemblance to SARS. The outbreak in Wuhan has exploded to more than
20,000 confirmed cases just in China.
Among the ill: the ophthalmologist who was censured for sounding an
early alarm.
"The diagnosis is finally confirmed," Li posted Jan. 31 on the social
media platform Weibo.
Li's situation has drawn rare acknowledgment of official missteps in
China, where a bureaucratic culture that prioritizes political stability
over all else probably allowed the new coronavirus to spread farther and
faster. Late last month, China's highest court admonished the Wuhan
police for the detentions.
"If society had at the time believed those 'rumors,' and wore masks,
used disinfectant and avoided going to the wildlife market as if there
were a SARS outbreak, perhaps it would've meant we could better control
the coronavirus today," the court said. "Rumors end when there is openness."
Li, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, had shared his
concerns the same day that Chinese authorities confirmed they were
investigating 27 cases of viral pneumonia. Officials at the epicenter in
Wuhan - the capital of Hubei province, where millions are now trapped in
an unprecedented lockdown - sent an "urgent notice" to all hospitals
about the existence of "pneumonia of unclear cause."
The notice ordered all departments to immediately compile information
about known cases and report them up their chain of command. But it did
not mention SARS or a coronavirus.
Li had posted a snippet of an RNA analysis finding "SARS coronavirus"
and extensive bacteria colonies in a patient's airways, according to a
chat transcript that he and other chat members later shared online.
On Jan. 1, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Li and the
others accused of fanning rumors. The detentions were reported on
"Xinwen Lianbo," a newscast watched by tens of millions.
The police followed up in the state-run Xinhua News Agency with a
chilling warning.
"The police call on all netizens to not fabricate rumors, not spread
rumors, not believe rumors," the Wuhan authorities said, adding that
they encouraged web users to "jointly build a harmonious, clear and
bright cyberspace."
As authorities cracked down, the outbreak was quickly worsening amid an
information vacuum. Wang Guangbao, a surgeon and popular science writer
in eastern China, later said speculation about a SARS-like virus was
rampant around Jan. 1 within medical circles, but the detentions
dissuaded many, including himself, from speaking openly about it.
"The eight posters getting seized made all of us doctors feel we were at
risk," he said.
Li was released by Wuhan police on Jan. 3 after signing a document
acknowledging he committed "illegal acts." The doctor, who did not
immediately respond to The Washington Post on Tuesday, later explained
to CNN that his family would "worry sick" about him "if I lose my
freedom for a few days." CNN reported that he was able to leave the
police station within about an hour.
He hurried back to work to see sick patients - and worked "normally" for
a while, he wrote on Weibo, tending to patients with the new coronavirus.
Then, on Jan. 10, he got a cough.
The next day, Li wrote, he had a fever, and by Jan. 12 he was in the
hospital. Tests for the virus he'd been scrutinizing came back negative,
but he was having a hard time breathing and moving.
China had yet to declare an emergency. That would come on Jan. 20, as
more than 400 million Chinese people prepared to travel home to mark the
Lunar New Year. A renowned pulmonologist appeared on state media to
announce that the new virus was transmissible between people, and
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for quick information-sharing and
"resolute efforts" to contain the virus.
Within days, all of Wuhan and several nearby cities - an area the size
of Washington state with more than 50 million people - were locked down.
Authorities raced to accommodate ballooning numbers of patients, working
to erect entire new hospitals.
By late January, officials were also acknowledging mistakes.
The Supreme People's Court's rebuked police for punishing Li and his
fellow doctors. Wuhan police said in a statement a day later that the
eight people summoned had committed only mild transgressions, spreading
"unverified information."
Officials gave "education and criticism" and did not fine or detain
people, the police said.
Li, who emphasized that his license has not been revoked, said he's been
cheered in the hospital by "netizens' support and encouragement." His
last post on Weibo, the Feb. 1 announcement of his latest test results,
drew tens of thousands of comments.
"Dr. Li, you are a good doctor with conscience," read one well-wisher's
message with more than 100,000 upvotes.
Another person counted Li among eight "prophets."
"The people of the whole country are in solidarity with you," the
commenter said.
- - -
The Washington Post's Lena H. Sun and Emily Rauhala contributed to this
report.
--
"Whoever said the the pen is mightier than the sword never met a man
with an automatic weapon." General Douglas MacArthur.
www.globalgulag.us
http://globalgulag.us/globalgulag/index.html
Jade Helm
Feb 7, 2020, 2:01:26 PM2/7/20
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On 2/7/20 10:58 AM, Winston_Smith wrote:
> scrubbing the posts. ;>}
>
>
> (Bloomberg) -- Over the past couple of weeks, Chinese citizen
> journalists Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin have served as the world’s eyes
> and ears inside the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the city of
> Wuhan. Broadcasting via their mobile phones, they’ve offered a glimpse
> of how dire things have been. Many of those videos have been posted to
> Twitter and reposted on YouTube.
>
> Now one of them is missing.
>
> Chen has been out of reach for more than 20 hours. Fang, who was
> silent much of Friday until a video posted in the evening, was
> previously detained briefly by authorities for his video of corpses in
> a hospital. When he filmed the dramatic moment people in hazmat suits
> broke down his apartment door to take him into quarantine, it sparked
> hundreds of comments urging the authorities to release him.
>
> It’s no accident that their posts grew viral on American platforms.
> China’s internet watchdog has stepped up its policing efforts,
> announcing on Wednesday it would conduct “targeted supervision” on the
> largest social media platforms including Weibo, Tencent’s WeChat and
> ByteDance’s Douyin. The regulator has already frozen a raft of social
> media accounts, then stepped up online scrubbing to quiet a wave of
> confused outrage over the death of the doctor that first raised red
> flags about the disease.
>
> ...snip
>
Fascinating. The Chinese "authorities" obviously have something big to
hide.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-400-million-people-lockdown-guangzhou-joins-quarantine
A Stunning 400 Million People Are On Lockdown In China As Guangzhou
Joins Quarantine
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/07/2020 - 07:59
Guangzhou, the capital of China's southwestern Guangdong Province and
the country's fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has
just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all
citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only
limited permission to venture into the outside world to buy essential
supplies.
The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now
facing China's most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to
contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more
than 2 dozen countries.
That's more than 400 million people forcibly locked inside their homes
for 638 deaths? Just think about that: If there was ever a reason to
believe that Beijing is lying about the numbers (and not just because
Tencent accidentally leaked the real data), this is it.
Breaking: Guangzhou City (population: 14 M) locked down. All
residential blocks be isolated from each other. So far around 400
million people locked down in #China to contain #coronavirus.
#coronavirusOutbreak Original Chinese official
report:https://t.co/emfLIaOLut pic.twitter.com/RmX82iDOEH
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 7, 2020
Meanwhile, in the US, the Trump Administration has directed researchers
to investigate the 'true origins' of the virus, as 'conspiracy theories'
and misinformation spreads online. We can't help but wonder: What if the
scientists discover something that the regime in Beijing doesn't want
them to see?
白宮要求美國科學家和醫學研究者調查 #新型冠狀病毒 的起源。#武汉肺炎
https://t.co/mZPAYz0K1N
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 7, 2020
Elsewhere, Singapore raised its national disease response level to
Orange, the second-highest level and the same level from the SARS
epidemic, according to the city-state's health ministry. It also
confirmed three new coronavirus cases. While investigations are ongoing,
none of the three appear to have a history of recent travel to China,
suggesting they picked up the virus in Singapore.
'Orange' means the outbreak "is severe and spreads easily from person to
person" but "has not spread widely in Singapore and is being contained,"
according to the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition color-coded
framework. Singapore has never invoked its highest level, red, per BBG.
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:41:54 -0700, Jade Helm wrote:
>
>> https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-Chinese-doctor-was-one-of-the-first-to-warn-15028767.php
>> A Chinese doctor was one of the first to warn about coronavirus. He got
>> detained - and infected.
>
> Nah, never happened. China can prove it as soon as they get done
>
>> https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-Chinese-doctor-was-one-of-the-first-to-warn-15028767.php
>> A Chinese doctor was one of the first to warn about coronavirus. He got
>> detained - and infected.
>
> scrubbing the posts. ;>}
>
>
> (Bloomberg) -- Over the past couple of weeks, Chinese citizen
> journalists Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin have served as the world’s eyes
> and ears inside the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the city of
> Wuhan. Broadcasting via their mobile phones, they’ve offered a glimpse
> of how dire things have been. Many of those videos have been posted to
> Twitter and reposted on YouTube.
>
> Now one of them is missing.
>
> Chen has been out of reach for more than 20 hours. Fang, who was
> silent much of Friday until a video posted in the evening, was
> previously detained briefly by authorities for his video of corpses in
> a hospital. When he filmed the dramatic moment people in hazmat suits
> broke down his apartment door to take him into quarantine, it sparked
> hundreds of comments urging the authorities to release him.
>
> It’s no accident that their posts grew viral on American platforms.
> China’s internet watchdog has stepped up its policing efforts,
> announcing on Wednesday it would conduct “targeted supervision” on the
> largest social media platforms including Weibo, Tencent’s WeChat and
> ByteDance’s Douyin. The regulator has already frozen a raft of social
> media accounts, then stepped up online scrubbing to quiet a wave of
> confused outrage over the death of the doctor that first raised red
> flags about the disease.
>
> ...snip
>
Fascinating. The Chinese "authorities" obviously have something big to
hide.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-400-million-people-lockdown-guangzhou-joins-quarantine
A Stunning 400 Million People Are On Lockdown In China As Guangzhou
Joins Quarantine
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/07/2020 - 07:59
Guangzhou, the capital of China's southwestern Guangdong Province and
the country's fifth largest city with nearly 15 million residents, has
just joined the ranks of cities imposing a mandatory lockdown on all
citizens, effectively trapping residents inside their homes, with only
limited permission to venture into the outside world to buy essential
supplies.
The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now
facing China's most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to
contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more
than 2 dozen countries.
That's more than 400 million people forcibly locked inside their homes
for 638 deaths? Just think about that: If there was ever a reason to
believe that Beijing is lying about the numbers (and not just because
Tencent accidentally leaked the real data), this is it.
Breaking: Guangzhou City (population: 14 M) locked down. All
residential blocks be isolated from each other. So far around 400
million people locked down in #China to contain #coronavirus.
#coronavirusOutbreak Original Chinese official
report:https://t.co/emfLIaOLut pic.twitter.com/RmX82iDOEH
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 7, 2020
Meanwhile, in the US, the Trump Administration has directed researchers
to investigate the 'true origins' of the virus, as 'conspiracy theories'
and misinformation spreads online. We can't help but wonder: What if the
scientists discover something that the regime in Beijing doesn't want
them to see?
白宮要求美國科學家和醫學研究者調查 #新型冠狀病毒 的起源。#武汉肺炎
https://t.co/mZPAYz0K1N
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 7, 2020
Elsewhere, Singapore raised its national disease response level to
Orange, the second-highest level and the same level from the SARS
epidemic, according to the city-state's health ministry. It also
confirmed three new coronavirus cases. While investigations are ongoing,
none of the three appear to have a history of recent travel to China,
suggesting they picked up the virus in Singapore.
'Orange' means the outbreak "is severe and spreads easily from person to
person" but "has not spread widely in Singapore and is being contained,"
according to the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition color-coded
framework. Singapore has never invoked its highest level, red, per BBG.
Jade Helm
Feb 7, 2020, 3:32:04 PM2/7/20
to
On 2/7/20 12:54 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:
>
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-surveillance-idUSKBN2011HO
> Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows
>
> BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home
> from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked
> his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate
> of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the
> outbreak. Stay indoors for two weeks, they requested.
>
> After around 12 days, he was bored and went out early. This time, not
> only did the police contact him, so did his boss. He had been spotted
> near Hangzhou's West Lake by a camera with facial recognition
> technology, and the authorities had alerted his company as a warning.
>
> "I was a bit shocked by the ability and efficiency of the mass
> surveillance network. They can basically trace our movements with the
> AI technology and big data at any time and any place," said the man,
> who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions.
>
> Chinese have long been aware that they are tracked by the world's most
> sophisticated system of electronic surveillance. The coronavirus
> emergency has brought some of that technology out of the shadows,
> providing the authorities with a justification for sweeping methods of
> high tech social control.
>
> Artificial intelligence and security camera companies boast that their
> systems can scan the streets for people with even low-grade fevers,
> recognize their faces even if they are wearing masks and report them
> to the authorities.
>
> If a coronavirus patient boards a train, the railway's "real name"
> system can provide a list of people sitting nearby.
>
> Mobile phone apps can tell users if they have been on a flight or a
> train with a known coronavirus carrier, and maps can show them
> locations of buildings where infected patients live.
>
> ...snip
>
Whoa! What a nightmare. It begs the question, "Who watches the watchers?"
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:01:23 -0700, Jade Helm wrote:
>
>> The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now
>> facing China's most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to
>> contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more
>> than 2 dozen countries.
>
>
> "most strict level" is the truth.
>
>> The decision means 3 provinces, 60 cities and 400 million people are now
>> facing China's most-strict level of lockdown as Beijing struggles to
>> contain the coronavirus outbreak as the virus has already spread to more
>> than 2 dozen countries.
>
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-surveillance-idUSKBN2011HO
> Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows
>
> BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home
> from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked
> his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate
> of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the
> outbreak. Stay indoors for two weeks, they requested.
>
> After around 12 days, he was bored and went out early. This time, not
> only did the police contact him, so did his boss. He had been spotted
> near Hangzhou's West Lake by a camera with facial recognition
> technology, and the authorities had alerted his company as a warning.
>
> "I was a bit shocked by the ability and efficiency of the mass
> surveillance network. They can basically trace our movements with the
> AI technology and big data at any time and any place," said the man,
> who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions.
>
> Chinese have long been aware that they are tracked by the world's most
> sophisticated system of electronic surveillance. The coronavirus
> emergency has brought some of that technology out of the shadows,
> providing the authorities with a justification for sweeping methods of
> high tech social control.
>
> Artificial intelligence and security camera companies boast that their
> systems can scan the streets for people with even low-grade fevers,
> recognize their faces even if they are wearing masks and report them
> to the authorities.
>
> If a coronavirus patient boards a train, the railway's "real name"
> system can provide a list of people sitting nearby.
>
> Mobile phone apps can tell users if they have been on a flight or a
> train with a known coronavirus carrier, and maps can show them
> locations of buildings where infected patients live.
>
> ...snip
>
Whoa! What a nightmare. It begs the question, "Who watches the watchers?"
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