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Propaganda and Lies: Major Negligence Resulted in the Virus Spreading in the U.S. and China

After reporting extremely low numbers of cases of the coronavirus infection in China for many days, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to report on imported cases to show that China is “clean” but the world is “a mass,” and that China is able to treat the coronavirus but the world is not.

Beijing seemed to be making a “perfect” case against the United States.

On March 13, the Beijing Health Commission reported a confirmed case of infection of a patient traveling from the United States to Beijing. Ms. Li, who lived in Boston, said that she attended a company meeting on February 26 and 27 and a colleague at the meeting was later confirmed to have the Coronavirus. On March 1, she started to feel cold and later had a fever and a high temperature of 39 Celsius (102.2 Fahrenheit). She went to the hospital four times but was not admitted for hospitalization. She requested a nucleic acid test three times but her requests were all denied.

Therefore, she and her husband and son took a plane to fly back to China via Los Angles for diagnosis and treatment. Upon arriving in Beijing on March 13, she was confirmed to have the infection. Her husband and son were suspected cases.

However, this “exemplar” case started to show some flaws. On March 15, Zhang Yun, General Manager of Air China’s Product Service Department, disclosed more information about Ms. Li’s travels. During the boarding process, the CA988 flight attendants measured every traveler and found no one had a high temperature. An hour after the plane took off, Ms. Li, who was in seat 40B told the flight attendant that she felt shortness of breath and had a lack of energy. She claimed that she was traveling by herself, didn’t take any medicine before boarding the plane, and had a short period of fever a week ago. Her temperature test was 36.4 Celsius (97.5 Fahrenheit). She was moved to the end row and given a designated bathroom for quarantine purpose. Flight attendants tested her temperature four more times. All showed it was below 37 Celsius (98.6 Fahrenheit).

Two hours before landing in Beijing, she told the flight attendants that colleagues in her company in the U.S. had been confirmed to have the coronavirus infection. She said she had a fever in the U.S. She also said she took antipyretics to reduce her temperature before boarding the plane and that her husband and son were also on the plane in seats 54K and 54L.

The flight attendants immediately moved her husband and son to the same quarantine area with her.

The Paper reported this story, with the title “Speechless! A Lady Took Antipyretics to Fly with Family to Beijing and Told Major Lies on the Flight!”

Epoch Times reported that there were more lies in the story. According to people in the U.S. who know Ms. Li, she had already been confirmed to have the Coronavirus infection. Since her symptoms were mild and she did not meet the standard for hospitalization, she was asked to self-quarantine at home. Instead she flew back to China and lied that she had not been confirmed to have the infection in the U.S.

She was an employee at Biogen Inc., whose meeting at the end of February had resulted in massive infections. By March 14, among the 138 confirmed cases in Massachusetts, 104 cases were related to Biogen.

One person commented, “How many more people might have been infected because of her? From her home to Boston, at the Boston Airport, on the plane to LA, at the LA Airport, and then on the plane to Beijing!”

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Public Opinion: Refusing to Remain Silent Any Longer, a Wuhan Young Man Decided to Speak for the Dead

Voice of America (VOA) reported a story of a young man in Wuhan, in his twenties, with the pseudonym “Tulong,” who decided not to remain silent in front the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda and thought control, but to speak out for the people who died from the coronavirus.

“I know how sinister this regime is,” Tulong said, “but before, I just told myself not to look at these things.”

His dream was to be a news reporter. He studied at the top journalism department in China, but soon he found that his dream would never come true.

“My school is the place where they train people to control public opinion. More than once, I heard my teachers’ brag about how they controlled public opinion.”

After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Tulong said that he might have been infected with the virus and even been cremated had he not broken the firewall blockade to visit websites outside of China and not heard the truth from friends overseas.

“When they drove the ‘low-end’ people out of Beijing, I told myself that I was not a low-end person and would not be cleaned out (see Chinascope’s report: Beijing Official: Take Real, Rough, and Quick Action to Demolish Buildings). When they set up a “reform” campus in Xinjiang, I thought I was not a Uyghur and didn’t have a religion, so I would not be put in the camp; I am sympathetic to Hong Kong people, but I felt that I wouldn’t go to the streets to protest, so still it had nothing to do with me. This time, it happened in my hometown. Many people around me were infected and some had passed away, so I could not tolerate it anymore.”

“Most of the Chinese, including myself, are not innocent because we have condoned (the CCP) for doing evil, and many have even done evil together with the CCP.”

A friend once told him that, to live in China, a person has to be able to do at least one of two things and both things would be better. First, let go of one’s own rationality; and second, let go of one’s conscience.

However, Tulong felt that he couldn’t do either.

“I survived in the epidemic,” Tulong told the VOA, “I am lucky. However, as a survivor from Wuhan, I have a responsibility to speak out, for the rest of my life, for the people who died.”

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Public Opinion: Netizens Relay Posting of “The Person Who Handed out Whistles” Article

In its March 2020 edition, China’s People Magazine (note: different from the People magazine in the United States), a publication under People’s Publishing House, published an article called, “The Person Who Handed out Whistles.” However, within three hours, the Communist region removed all posted versions.

The article talked about Ai Fen, Director of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Wuhan Central Hospital, which treated several coronavirus patients in December, 2019. Ai Fen took a picture of the diagnose report of “SARS coronavirus” and sent it to some doctors including Dr. Li Wenliang. Dr. Li Wenliang then sent the message to a WeChat group, including the picture, and became the whistle blower. Ai is thus considered to be the person who handed Dr. Li Wenliang a whistle.

Chinese netizens were very disappointed in the government’s Internet control and started to relay the posting of the deleted article. However, their postings were soon deleted. Then people translated the article into different languages and kept posting it. The different languages that were used include: 1. Traditional Chinese, 2. Mirrored Image, 3. English, 4. Martian language, 5, Braille, 6. Upside-down Image, 7. Garbled version, 8. Obituary (an Ancient Chinese writing style), 9. A rewrite in the Classic Chinese language, 10. Hand-writing, 11. Morse Code version, 12. No Letter version, 13. Vertical layout (read the article vertically), 14. German, 15. Binary code, 16. Voice…

Netizens told Radio Free Asia, each version might exist a few hours, or just a few minutes, before the Communist regime deleted it. Since several versions were not readable, people passed them around not for others to read but to protest and to release their anger towards the authorities’ Internet control.

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Resuming Production: Cities Are Handing Out Money to Encourage Consumption

Xinhua Daily, a newspaper under the Nanjing Party Committee, Jiangsu Province, reported that the Nanjing government announced, on March 13, that it is handing out coupons worth a total of 318 million yuan (US $45 million) to encourage the service industry’s recovery.

The coupons, with a monetary value of 50 yuan or 100 yuan, included a dining coupon, a book coupon, a village tour coupon, an information consumption coupon, a living subsidy, and a labor union coupon.

The article pointed out that many cities have tried the monetary encouragement method to encourage people to consume, including:

  • On February 13, Macao announced it would issue a MOP$ 3000 (US $375) electronic coupon to each resident.
  • On February 26, Hong Kong announced HK $120 billion (US $15.4 billion) in financial support, including giving out HK $10,000 to each person over 18 years old.
  • On March 2, Ji’nan City, Shandong Province announced 20 million yuan in cultural consumption coupons.
  • On March 5, De City, Zhejiang Province announced 10 million yuan in travel coupons.
  • On March 12, Zhejiang Provincial Culture and Tourism Department announced that Zhejiang will provide 1 billion yuan to stimulate cultural and tourism consumption and 100 million yuan in gifts directly to people.
  • On March 13, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province announced it would give out 100 million yuan in coupons.

To encourage people to go out to spend money, several major leaders in Jiangsu Province went to restaurants or stores to demonstrate consumption, setting an example for citizens.

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Hiding Information: Wuhan Central Hospital Did Not Allow Staff to Talk about Coronavirus

Southern Weekly, a newspaper based in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, reported in detail on how,  in early January, the Wuhan Central Hospital hid the Coronavirus from the public and forced its medical staff not to talk about it.

Ai Fen, Director of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Wuhan Central Hospital, saw the reports giving the diagnosis of some patients as “SARS Coronavirus.” She took picture of a report and sent it to a few doctors including Dr. Li Wenliang who then posted it on a WeChat group and was thus called the whistle blower for the coronavirus.

At midnight on the New Year of 2020, Ai Fen received a message from the Monitor Section of the hospital, asking her to attend a meeting the next day. At the meeting, she was criticized for spreading rumors, creating social fear, and impacting Wuhan’s development and stability.

Another doctor said that it was not just Wi Fen and Dr. Li Wenliang who were called to the meeting. Many other people were also called to meeting and told not to release information.

An employee recalled, “We were told not to talk about it and not to mention there were no protection materials. Many doctors and nurses were infected during that period. I was very desperate. There was no help and we were not allowed to report.”

Two people showed a WeChat screenshot, that on December 30, 2019, each department’s WeChat group received a forwarded message from the Wuhan Health Commission, “Do not release information about the unknown cause pneumonia. … Otherwise, the Municipal Health Commission would take serious measures to investigate and deal with it.”

A doctor said that in the early days, the hospital required of them: “Do not talk about it. Do not wear a face mask so as to avoid public fear.”

The hospital leaders told each section’s chief to call every staff member, one by one, to inform them they should never leak the information about the virus.

Many staff members confirmed that they had received the same order. All had been passed down orally.

Qian Xuejiang, Director of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, wore a face mask to a meeting. The hospital leader criticized him. After that, he stopped wearing a face mask. Sadly, he was infected with the virus a few days later. It was confirmed and he eventually died.

A picture of Qian’s meeting notes said, “Unknown cause viral pneumonia, no evidence of person-to-person transmission. Ten disciplinary regulations: Confidential discipline, never talk about it. …”

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Propaganda and Lies: U.S. Responded to China’s Accusation

On March 12, Zhao Lijian, Spokesman & Deputy Director General of the Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accused the United States of being the origin of the novel coronavirus, stating, “It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent!”

On March13, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell summoned China’s Ambassador Cui Tiankai to the State Department. Stilwell gave a very “stern representation” of the facts to the Chinese Ambassador, who, according to a senior State Department official, was “very defensive.” Stilwell did not issue any threats, but the two diplomats had a frank diplomatic discourse, the official said.

On March 13, Senator Josh Hawley posted the following on Twitter:

“I’m pleased to report this #China Foreign Ministry clown has blocked me for daring to challenge his outrageous lies that the US is responsible for #coronavirus #Covid_19. Fact is, Chinese Communist Party lied to its citizens & the world about this virus. They are responsible.”

Senator Rick Scott posted on Twitter:

“This is unhinged. Communist China will say and do anything to avoid responsibility for their role in allowing the Chinese #Coronavirus to spread.

They lied about it. Covered it up. Silenced doctors who were sounding the alarm. They let their own people die. Shameful.”

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Sources:

1. CNN, March 13, 2020
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2. Twitter

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Public Opinion: People Creatively Protested Government’s “Be Grateful” Campaign

After Wuhan Party Secretary Wang Zhonglin gave an order to Wuhan citizens to conduct a “Be Grateful” education campaign to teach them to “be grateful to Xi Jinping and be grateful to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” the public overwhelmingly denounced it.

Some people dug out a People’s Daily article published back on November 18, 2013, which criticized certain officials for having a wrong mentality of “being grateful,” and re-circulated it with the title “People’s Daily: Be Vigilant about the Wrong ‘Be Grateful’ Mentality.” Some even modified the content but still referred to People’s Daily as the source. They were making fun of the CCP: even the party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily is against the “be grateful” campaign.

Beijing later removed articles reporting Wang’s “Be Grateful” order and sent Wang and Ying Yong, the Hubei Provincial Party Secretary, to thank the people of Wuhan and Hubei instead.

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Resuming Production: Hubei Airport Group Gets Ready for Operations

As China pushes for resuming production, Wuhan City and Hubei Province sent out a signal to move towards lifting the “lockdown” controls.

On March 8, the Hubei Airport Group issued a notice to prepare for resuming operations. The notice said, according to arrangements by the Hubei Provincial and Wuhan Municipal Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Command Center, each unit of the Hubei Airport Group should resume work starting March 10, each regional airport should complete preparation for resuming operations by March 12, each company should complete preparations for resuming flights and operations by March 16, and the group company and relevant government offices should inspect the preparations on March 17.

A reporter from e Company obtained information from someone close to the airport group, “Now it is just in the preparation stage. Whether to resume flights is dependent on how the epidemic develops from March 15 to March 20.”

[Editor’s Note: There had been several incidents in the past few weeks in which a local government planned to lift the “lockdown” but then reverted back, including: Wuhan allowed people to leave the city for few hours, Beijing rescinded a plan to resume operations for the movie industry, and Qianjiang City, Hubei Province retracted an announcement to unlock the city.]

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