A year ago, in the early hours of January 23rd, Wuhan issued an emergency closure order and hundreds of thousands of Wuhaners fled before their city was completely sealed off, leaving most of the citizens behind in deep water. On New Year’s Eve, the world saw Wuhan people take to the streets to celebrate. Wuhan’s actions were a relief to the many people who had been worried about the city day and night, but at the same Time left people wondering why Wuhan alone, and why no other major Chinese cities, had any celebrations.
Xi Jinping declared victory against the Epidemic a little too early
News broke on January 22 that nucleic acid testing was conducted for two consecutive days on Friday and Saturday in Beijing‘s East and West districts, where Zhongnanhai is located. While Beijing’s outbreak prevention and control escalated again, Shanghai also saw an outbreak, with six new confirmed cases on the 21st, all local.
The outbreak has rebounded in Hebei province, which is close to Beijing, and is already in a mutual lockdown with Beijing. The situation is also recurring in the Northeast, where Heilongjiang has issued an emergency city closure order, preventing tens of millions of people from moving around.
For several days in a row, China has had more than 100 confirmed cases per day, a number that is really nothing compared to Europe and the United States, which are being hit hard by the epidemic, but it is a high number in a country that has had the epidemic largely under control since May.
Last year, because the epidemic broke out just before the Chinese New Year, the Chinese people did not get to spend the Lunar New Year, which is most important to them, and many did not even do so. This year, the authorities are taking strict precautions and advising people to spend the New Year in place, and many people are lamenting that they may not be able to spend the Chinese New Year again this year. Beijing has long advised people to spend New Year’s Eve in place, and governments around the world have come up with various slogans to persuade people not to travel, for example, some neighborhoods in Chengdu are broadcasting: “I’d rather sleep my head flat than go out and take risks, I’d rather sit on a broken couch than go out and get into trouble”, and some places have “What can The only way to solve the problem is to stay behind”, and so on.
The number of Spring Festival passengers has been revised downward to 296 million, only one-tenth of the number of previous years.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced on September 8 that the Communist Party of China (CPC) had led the nation to “achieve a major strategic result in the fight against the new pneumonia epidemic, creating another heroic feat in the history of mankind’s struggle against the disease! And, China was “the first to take the initiative to inform the World health Organization, relevant countries and regional organizations about the epidemic, the first to release information such as the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus, and the first to announce the treatment plan and prevention and control plan.” ……
It is true that China has basically controlled the epidemic in about a few months, but now the epidemic has started to rebound again, and the epidemic has become serious in Japan and South Korea, which are neighboring countries of China.
The three “first times” in the second paragraph are hard to believe, at least for international public opinion, as the Beijing authorities are blamed for not only failing to inform the international community at the beginning of the outbreak, but also for concealing the epidemic, missing more than three weeks from late December 2019 to January 20, when the authorities publicly acknowledged the “human-to-human” transmission of the disease, when, according to scientists, if major anti-epidemic actions had been taken three weeks earlier, the number of infections would have been significantly reduced and the new pandemic might not have occurred today.
Zhang Yongzhen’s Shanghai team had already discovered the neo-coronavirus gene sequence on Jan. 5 and had reported it to China’s National Health Commission, advising the authorities to take appropriate measures to prevent the spread, but the team waited until Jan. 11 without seeing any action from the national authorities before deciding to make the world’s first neo-coronavirus gene sequence public on virologic.org. The following day, however, the authorities shut down Zhang’s lab for “rectification” reasons.
The virus, initially called Wuhan pneumonia of Unknown Origin and later officially named the 2019 novel coronavirus, has spread from Wuhan to China and from China to the world, with more than two million people dying from the outbreak by the 23rd.
Wuhan’s former mayor Zhou Xianwang who leaked the open air
On January 22, Wuhan mayor Zhou Xianwang has become a member of the Hubei CPPCC party group, which means that Zhou Xianwang has stepped down from his position as mayor before reaching the age of retirement, and is idle and retired to the “second line”.
Zhou Xianwang, who was the mayor of Wuhan a year ago, did not match his words when pressed about the epidemic, and he was ridiculed as the “Hubei F4” with Ma Guoqiang, then secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee, Jiang Chaoliang, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, and Wang Xiaodong, governor of Hubei Province, who performed woefully at the press conference. The public opinion demanded the removal from office is very high.
But Zhou Xianwang disclosed a major piece of information to Wuhan’s official website, Han.com, on January 11 last year, saying that he had reported the epidemic to the central government in December and had informed scientists that he had implied that he had done what he was supposed to do. When asked why Wuhan had not announced the epidemic to society earlier, Zhou Xianwang said he had “disclosed it in accordance with the law” and that he had no right to inform society without “authorization”.
Zhou Xianwang also told CCTV on Jan. 27 that “as a local government, I can only disclose this information after I get it and after I am authorized to do so, so there was a lot of confusion about this at the time. Zhou Xianwang’s statement implied that there was no local responsibility and was seen as a move to shirk responsibility to the central government. But his remarks uncovered a major piece of official secrecy: powerful people in Zhongnanhai were heavily responsible for the delay in preventing the epidemic.
The WHO expert panel that traced the source of the disease
Scientists believe that tracing the source of the disease is to better prevent future outbreaks. The New crown outbreak was in Wuhan, and the international community has been asking to go to Wuhan to investigate and trace the source, which China has refused to do, and has done a lot of dumping during that time, implying that the source is in a foreign country. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi until recently made the unfounded statement that perhaps the virus was multi-local.
After a full year of delay, a WHO expert mission was only recently allowed to travel to Wuhan to investigate. But according to the New York Times, the key part of the investigation will be conducted by Chinese scientists, and public opinion is skeptical that the experts will get to the truth.
The international experts arrived in Wuhan on Jan. 14 and then checked into a hotel to be quarantined for two weeks. During this time, they began working at a distance. When the quarantine period ended, they went back to the site to investigate. For example, if you go to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and check the records in the P4 virus room, where Shi Zhengli, the most critical virus scientist in this institute, is in charge, can the Chinese side develop all the information to the experts?
The WHO said before the trip to Wuhan to trace the source of the virus in order for the experts’ investigation to proceed smoothly, not to identify a criminal. on January 23, the WHO said it was too early to point out where the source of the new coronavirus was.
Zhang Zhan Ai Fen Chen Qiushi Fang Bin
After the outbreak in Wuhan, a group of warriors emerged to seek the truth.
The first citizen journalist to enter Wuhan to learn about the epidemic was Chen Qiushi, who reported what he saw and heard to the outside world on video every day. He went deep into the hospital and into the Fang cabin to learn the truth, and one day, he was disappeared and has not been heard from since
Fang Bin, a Wuhan citizen, was so distressed by the official concealment of the truth about the epidemic that he resolved to investigate it himself, despite the danger. He went deep into the hospital and sent out photos of hospital corridors parked full of dead people who were too late to be taken away. When the police came to his door, he also made a final appeal via video for people to stand up and fight against the authoritarian regime; he was taken away and has not been heard from since.
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who was sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai on December 28, was sentenced to a heavy sentence for “provoking and provoking trouble” after entering Wuhan in February and posting more than 100 videos that reflected the hardships of Wuhan’s people in the face of the epidemic.
On Jan. 22, the United States and 14 other countries called on Chinese authorities to release Zhang immediately.
Ai Fen, a colleague of the late whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital, was the one who, among other things, first got the word out that a virus similar to Sars had appeared in Wuhan. on Dec. 30, 2019, Ai Fen got a copy of the new coronavirus test report, which she photographed and forwarded to her hospital colleagues. on the same day, Li Wenliang saw the screenshot she sent and passed it on to more people, and Li was admonished. on Jan. On that morning of January 2, Ai Fen was called to the office of the hospital’s party secretary, Cai Li, and reprimanded, she later said, by a series of intimidating words: “People from the hospital called me, and I was afraid to talk to them about the virus.
Ai Fen later gave a detailed account to People magazine of what happened during that time and what happened to her personally, calling herself a “whistle blower” whose actions drew the world’s attention, especially her words: “Never mind the criticism, I’ll talk about it everywhere”, which became an inspiring quote.
Efen was then forced to keep silent for a long time, she could no longer talk about the epidemic to the outside world until December 30, 2020, when Efen spoke out on Weibo: “The disaster in 2020 brought different changes and impacts to everyone’s Life, and for me, it was even worse: I managed to escape the virus invasion at the beginning of the year but failed to escape the retinal detachment on the day after my 46th birthday, and my right eye was nearly declared”.
Due to the misdiagnosis, her right eye is almost blind. She wants Aier Hospital to publicly admit its mistake. She stood up to the Aier Group and challenged them. “Everyone can stand up and speak out and challenge what is unreasonable, just like I did,” she said in a story published by Phoenix.com on Jan. 22. She added, “The more you cover it up, the more someone fights it. I am a nail, knock knock knock every day. You are the behemoth, and I can knock you down one day.”
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