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The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus Dr Li Wenliang, who was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak, has died of the infection. His death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he worked and was being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on state media. Dr Li, 34, tried to send a message to fellow medics about the outbreak at the end of December. Three days later police paid him a visit and told him to stop. He returned to work and caught the virus from a patient. He had been in hospital for at least three weeks. He posted his story from his hospital bed last month on social media site Weibo. "Hello everyone, this is Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital," the post begins. It was a stunning insight into the botched response by local authorities in Wuhan in the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak. Dr Li was working at the center of the outbreak in December when he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars - the virus that led to a global epidemic in 2003. The cases were thought to come from the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan and the patients were in quarantine in his hospital. On 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective clothing to avoid infection. What Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus. Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of "making false comments" that had "severely disturbed the social order". "We solemnly warn you: If you keep being stubborn, with such impertinence, and continue this illegal activity, you will be brought to justice - is that understood?" Underneath in Dr Li's handwriting is written: "Yes, I do." He was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for "spreading rumors". At the end of January, Dr Li published a copy of the letter on Weibo and explained what had happened. In the meantime, local authorities had apologized to him but that apology came too late. For the first few weeks of January officials in Wuhan were insisting that only those who came into contact with infected animals could catch the virus. No guidance was issued to protect doctors. But just a week after his visit from the police, Dr Li was treating a woman with glaucoma. He didn't know that she had been infected with the new coronavirus. In his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in hospital. His parents also fell ill and were taken to hospital. It was 10 days later - on 20 January - that China declared the outbreak an emergency. Dr Li says he was tested several times for coronavirus, all of them came back negative. On 30 January he posted again: "Today nucleic acid testing came back with a positive result, the dust has settled, finally diagnosed." He punctuated the short post with an emoji of a with its eyes rolled back, tongue hanging out. Not surprisingly the post received thousands of comments and words of support. "Dr Li Wenliang is a hero," one user said, worrying about what his story says about their country. "In the future, doctors will be more afraid to issue early warnings when they find signs of infectious diseases." "A safer public health environment… requires tens of millions of Li Wenliang."   Honesty is the best policy. |
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Transparency is essential to public health. But in China, doctors who reported the reality of the outbreak have been arrested for “spreading rumors.” Officials were pictured pocketing supplies meant for frontline medical staff, who were reduced to cutting up office supplies for makeshift surgical masks. Meanwhile, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has already started leveraging the crisis for propaganda by lionizing cadres leading containment efforts. “No crisis is too deadly that they can’t take a time-out to promote the party through manipulation of it,” says Scott W. Harold, an East Asia expert at the U.S. policy think tank Rand Corp. Honesty is the best policy.
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I am bilingual in Mandarin Chinese and English, so can read both language news. I didn't spread rumors. I used my common sense, my bilingual languages, and pro-Democracy knowledge to post blogs as correct as I can be. CCP is a one party communist dictatorship and China was an emperor system in the history. I have education in universities in both Taiwan and California. I am a health care personnel and my family too. I think my opinions are "fair and square". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Li died too young and left with a pregnant wife and a son. Dr. Li's parents also have been conformed patients with coronavirus. Doctors are the life-saver for large sum of people but they sacrificed their lives, they are exhausted to treat patients on 24/7 schedule. I am sorry that CCP didn't listen to him and put the politics first to cover-up the vicious virus spreading. So sad. Honesty is the best policy.
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This Coronavirus in China will hurt their economy tremendously. The travel industry, casino (Chinese like to gamble), the smartphone industry, semi-conductor, Starbucks, Nike, Adidas (already moved to Vietnam), ... Last year their GDP Growth rate dropped to 6.1 percent ( 27 years low), the analysts estimate that if they can keep at 5 percent will be a miracle. China has signed "Trade deal one" with U.S. Trump administration on January 15, 20/20 and promised to buy more U.S. agricultural products, i.e. soybean, pork, ... now if their economy slow down drastically, they won't keep their promise. Trump will raise the tariff on Chinese goods. It will become a bad circulation for China. Chinese stock market already plunged 8% in one day since they came back from the Chinese lunar New Year's vacation. The 7 days vacation has postponed but the streets in the cities are empty. Nobody and no car on the streets. It is the indication of recession is lurking. Honesty is the best policy.
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An honest and professional doctor used social media to warn the public in December last year, but CCP accused him "spreading rumors". CCP forced him to sign paper to admit that he was stubborn and impertinence, doing illegal activity. CCP is ignorant and delayed the prevention and quarantine of coronavirus spreading. CCP prohibits their people to talk about Great Famine, Cultural Revolution, June 4th Democracy Movement, One child policy caused abortions, now this coronavirus spreading like fire. CCP admitted in the public that they bribed W.H.O. not to announce virus emergency in December last year. I don't know why Chinese people are still silent lambs? How can they endure CCP dictatorship? Why can't they form another political party to watch their government? The coronavirus is spreading to the world. People in world despise China. I walked in to Chinese supermarket and saw all the employees wear masks. The bank employees also wear masks. Chinese restaurants workers wear masks. I think the passengers and flight attendants wear masks in the confined space airplane. C'est la vie. Honesty is the best policy.
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