The night of February 6, 2020, saw the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, the Wuhan physician who alerted others about novel coronavirus a month ago and then contracted the virus himself when he was working on the front line treating patients. His death triggered a public mourning and questioning of the communist regime’s policy of obscurantism.
Within Hours of Dr. Li’s death, the head of the Shanghai branch of People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the CCP central committee, wrote a poem that was widely circulated over Chinese social media. His poem read as follows: “We are angered by how your warning was treated as rumor, and how your death was not rumor [the state-run media denied Li Wenliang’s death for a few hours to buy time to squash the popular outcry] … Now, because of not believing your ‘whistle-blowing,’ the whole country has stopped functioning, and your heart has stopped beating. How many more severe prices do we have to pay to let your voice be heard across the oriental world?”
A comment stated, “Xi Jinping and other officials who hid the information about the epidemic should be tried.”
Another comment said, “It is a tragedy that a country only allows one voice. That will lead to disaster as well.”
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worley 发表评论于 2020-02-06 08:54:26
习近平和其它隐瞒疫情官员应该被审判。中共独裁集团隐瞒疫情，错过了治理疫情的黄金时间，还说“不会人传人，可防可控可治”，不仅坑害了大量无辜的湖北人，还坑害了其它省份中国人和世界各国。
据树没皮怎办发表评论，一个国家只允许一种声音，是一种悲哀。还会导致灾难。很普通的公民行使宪法上保护的言论自由权利，很普通的专业人士微信上的一个善意提醒，就可能被一个派出所以“妨碍社会秩序”“造谣”“寻衅滋事” 而压制并追究刑事责任。 “神圣”的具有“最高法律效力”的宪法，到了派出所那里，成了废纸。
akiller 发表评论转发人民日报上海分社弘冰社长的泪文：
我们愤怒于你的预警被当成谣言，我们伤恸于你的死亡竟不是谣言……你从来和谣言无缘，却被迫因“造谣”而具结“悔过”。现在，因为不信你的“哨声”，你的国家停摆，你的心脏停跳……还要怎样惨重的代价，才能让你和你们的哨声嘹亮，洞彻东方？
Source: Radio France International, February 6, 2020
http://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20200206-武汉肺炎-李文亮之死引发民意恸哭-人民日报人悼文悲指我们伤恸于你的死亡竟不是谣言-0