Dr. Li Wenliang passed away on February 7, 2020, after suffering from the New Coronavirus.
On January 3 last year, Wuhan Zhongnan Road police station summoned Dr. Li Wenliang, saying that he “published untrue statements on the Internet” and “seriously disturbed the social order” and warned that if he “continues to carry out illegal activities, you will be sanctioned by the law! sanctioned by law!” On that day, Li Wenliang could not have imagined that his personal encounter would have a significant connection to the world.
Dr. Li Wenliang was accused by the authorities of “spreading rumors” and called for a “reprimand”, a point in time that was later seen as the beginning of the big lie that the Chinese authorities told about the New Coronavirus, a lie that grew bigger and bigger until the New Coronavirus spread across the country and into the world, where today more than 1.8 million people have died from the virus.
This ‘letter of admonition’ is posted everywhere on the internet today, with the signature of Dr. Li Wenliang under the high pressure of the Public Security Bureau: “Can” and “Understand”, three short words, how heavy, a doctor who dares to speak the truth is thus locked in the mouth by cadres who do not know the slightest bit about medical science.
On December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang’s colleague, Dr. Ai Fen, director of the emergency room of Wuhan Central Hospital, got a virus test report of an unidentified pneumonia patient, and Ai Fen circled the words “SARS coronavirus” in red and photographed it and passed it to his classmate who is also a doctor. Li Wenliang saw the report, and on the same day, he sent out information in the WeChat group: “7 cases of SARS were diagnosed in the South China Fruit and Seafood Market”, Li Wenliang and Ai Fen were unaware that this was not the SARS virus, but a brand new virus.
On January 1, Ai Fen was called by the hospital leadership, warning her “not to say anything about this pneumonia”, “even her husband can not say”, the hospital criticism of the harsh, “as if the entire Wuhan City development of The hospital criticized harshly, “as if the whole Wuhan City development of the good situation was destroyed by me alone”. The next day, Li Wenliang was called to the police station to sign a “letter of admonition”, on January 8, Li Wenliang received a patient with glaucoma, the next day, the patient had a fever and unidentified pneumonia symptoms, on January 10, Li Wenliang began to cough, the following days, his condition continued to worsen, and finally admitted to the intensive care unit. intensive care unit.
The epidemic in Wuhan was so out of control that it could no longer be concealed, and Beijing ordered Wuhan to be closed to the public on January 23, when people remembered Li Wenliang, one of the eight bad elements who had been rumored by CCTV 20 days earlier for destroying the good situation of stability and unity! The Chinese people in the midst of the disaster immediately realized that Li Wenliang was the “whistle blower” and that if the authorities had listened to him, the 12 million people in Wuhan would not have been trapped in deep water with no way to seek help.
Speaking to reporters shortly before his death, Dr. Li Wenliang said, “A healthy society should not have only one voice.” On January 31, Li Wenliang, who was being treated in an intensive care ward, recounted through social media how he was summoned by the public security authorities, uploading a photo of the “letter of admonishment” that the Wuhan Public Security Bureau had asked him to sign. “On February 6, Li Wenliang passed away, and his death triggered a painful awareness among Chinese people of their own unfettered existence, and years of suppressed anger overwhelmed the Internet police, who were unable to block it, and a 48-hour storm of free speech emerged. Officials then “decompressed” the situation through various channels, and a batch of documents obtained by the New York Times clearly shows how they defused the storm of mourning for Li Wenliang and demanding freedom of expression.
It was not until early March that people learned, through an interview in People magazine, that there was another remarkable figure in the thrilling “whistle blowing” operation, and her name was Ai Fen! She was the one who took the lead in telling her peers about the real situation of the unidentified pneumonia in Wuhan, and Li Wenliang took over the torch, spreading the reality of the SARS outbreak in Wuhan to a wider audience, a move so significant that a director of the Taiwan CDC later disclosed that he was the first to discover the alert on the Internet and immediately warned his peers and sent a notification to the World health Organization. The Taiwanese authorities randomly took strict precautions against the epidemic, and Taiwan’s epidemic prevention was exemplary for the world, with credit to the whistle blowers in Wuhan.
However, Effen, Li Wenliang encountered a different kind of encounter, suppression, admonition, and silencing. Li Wenliang is dead, and Effen is still “not at liberty to speak. The story of the two men’s misfortune is the tragic story of the Wuhan epidemic, which spread from Hubei to China and then to the world, becoming a new pandemic.
Li Wenliang, and Ai Fen were the pioneers, and since then, there have been many attempts to break through the gag and seek the truth about the epidemic in China. on January 24, 2019, Chen Qiushi, a lawyer-born citizen journalist, entered Wuhan despite his personal safety, filmed what he saw and heard, and reported the facts to the world on video, shortly after he was disappeared.
The brave Wuhan citizen Fang Bin, who decided to go into the hospital when everyone was silent to inquire about the true scale of the epidemic, was also disappeared. Li Zehua, a former CCTV host, tried to find out the true number of diagnoses and deaths in Wuhan, hoping to go into the funeral home to investigate, and he too was disappeared.
But another citizen journalist, Ms. Zhang Zhan, a lawyer by training, showed up in Wuhan in February with the simple goal of finding out the true extent of the epidemic in Wuhan, visiting crematoriums, crowded hospitals, and empty train stations, and then reporting the videos she shot on the spot. on May 14, she sent out her last video, shot at Hankou train station, in which she tells the stories of several people she interviewed on the streets and their stories, including the story of a family surrounded by police for not cooperating with the government’s QR code scanning registration requirements. “The way the city is managed relies heavily on intimidation and bullying, which is really sad for this country,” Zhang Zhan said at the end of the video.
Before she was arrested in Shanghai, she said, “If fear is all that is left in life, then all I can do is to fight it over and over again until I cross it. The authorities accused her of “provoking trouble,” and on December 28, the presiding judge questioned Zhang Zhan in court.
Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison at the end of this year. The company’s main business is to promote the development of the company’s products and services.
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