Phase three of the communist propaganda has begun: instead of rewarding doctors silenced by the regime who tried to warn the world about the virus, Beijing rewards suspicious scientists
“Scientists from the Wuhan laboratory deserve the Nobel Prize for medicine”. If it were a joke it would be funny, but it’s not. The quote is serious and comes from the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Minister, Zhao Lijiang. According to Zhao, in fact, the scientists of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, far from being responsible for the accidental release of Covid-19 from the laboratory, are rather the first to have discovered the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus. Therefore they deserve a prize and not “slander”.
«Outstanding results» in Wuhan
Beyond the origin of the virus, still unknown, there is no doubt that China has not done the whole world a good service, hiding the truth about the virus in the first months of the pandemic and letting it spread beyond Wuhan and national borders.
To wash his conscience and reject the increasingly insistent accusations of a possible spill of Covid-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Cas) appointed the Institute as a candidate for the award reserved for those who achieve “outstanding achievements in the field of technology and science” in the past five years. In particular, the names of Shi Zhengli and Yuan Zhiming, director of the Institute, were mentioned.
Reward Li Wenliang rather
Covid-19 is too political and a delicate issue for China not to treat it with the full force of its mammoth propaganda apparatus. But if for once the communist regime considered the topic from the point of view of the health and safety of citizens, the scientific prize would be given to two other doctors: Ai Fen and Li Wenliang.
Li Wenliang was the first doctor in Wuhan to sound the alarm about the danger of the new virus, much more lethal than normal pneumonia, on December 30th. After warning some colleagues, the ophthalmologist was summoned in the middle of the night by the secretary of the disciplinary committee of the Communist Party inside the hospital, who “repeatedly asked me what my source was, adding that I was wrong. Then he asked me to write a self-criticism document for spreading false news ».
“They forced me to keep quiet”
On January 3, Li was summoned to the police station, “where they asked me to sign a document in which I retracted the content of the messages sent to my colleagues about the new coronavirus”. He made these statements from the hospital bed where he was hospitalized following contracting the virus at work, “where they forced us not to wear a mask” in order not to cause panic. Li died on February 7, 2020 as a true martyr of science.
Ai Fen, director of the emergency room at Wuhan Central Hospital, is one of Li Wenliang’s colleagues who discovered the existence of the virus on December 30. She too tried to notify the competent authorities, but was criticized, receiving the message not to disseminate information “to avoid panic”. Two days later, the head of the Party Committee inside the hospital scolded her for having “spread rumors and endangered stability” and forbade to spread messages or images relating to the virus. Ai told Renwu magazine:
“It made me feel like I was ruining Wuhan’s future. He was just punishing me for doing my job. But how could I not say anything to anyone in front of such a dangerous new virus? I had just followed my medical instinct. If only I could go back, I’d tell everyone: my colleagues wouldn’t die. If I had known what was going to happen, I would not have cared about the reproaches from my superiors. I would have fucking talked about it to anyone, anywhere».
China’s capital mistakes
Ai obeyed the regime like Li, at least asked to be allowed to wear the mask but was told no. While the Chinese government, with the complicity of the WHO, kept repeating that the virus could not be transmitted from person to person, “more and more patients came to the emergency room as the radius of infection widened,” Ai continues in the interview. “It was clear that the virus could be transmitted by people”.
The Communist Party of China could have listened to its doctors instead of threatening them, but he was too busy defending his image and not compromising the provincial party meeting, which took place in Wuhan from January 7 to 17.
Phase 3 of the communist propaganda
Instead of praising the doctors who tried to warn the country of the risk it was running, rather than honoring those who died, Wuhan Party Secretary Wang Zhonglin launched an unprecedented campaign to “educate the population to show gratitude to the Communist Party”. The propaganda campaign continued questioning the origin of the virus: we must not speak of “Wuhan fever”, but of Covid-19, also because the new coronavirus was passed to China “from the United States or Italy”.
Now the government moves on to phase three of its propaganda campaign: it rewards for their scientific achievements those doctors that the West suspects of having, voluntarily or not, combined the patatrac. And even proposes to award the Wuhan laboratory with the Nobel Prize for medicine. The regime has never been afraid of making a fool of itself into the grotesque. We hope at least that this time the WHO does not listen to him.
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