Thursday, March 12, 2020

Withdrawn doctor testimony 'resurrected' as Hubei airports plan operation resumptions

Reporter : Qiao Long
Editor-in-chief : Hu Lihan
Editor : Rui Zhe
Publisher : RFA
Ref : https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/huanjing/ql3-03112020065044.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : Ai Fen, Director of the emergency department of Wuhan Central Hospital. (Source: Hubei Forum Network)




After an article entitled "The Whistlemakers" was deleted online on Tuesday (10 March 2020) from China's "People" magazine, netizens relayed it in vertical, English, Martian, and Oracle editions to express their dissatisfaction, protest and views on the authorities. For a while, the article was "resurrected."

On the day Xi Jinping arrived in Wuhan for inspection, the March issue of People’s Publishing House’s “People” magazine carried an article entitled "The Whistleblowers", which was forced to be removed from shelves within three hours after release at shops. The online version of the issue’s public account was deleted before noon. Articles have also been deleted by mainland media. 

According to analysis, "The Whistleblowers" stimulated the sensitive nerves of the official propaganda department. So the second report of "People" cover article "Doctors of Wuhan - The Whistleblowers" was removed from the shelves. As a result, some netizens initiated the relay, and turned "The Whistlemakers" into various variants such as Oracle, Vietnamese, or reversed the order of words in the WeChat group, and continued to forward.

Bi Xin, an internet activist who is concerned about the Wuhan epidemic, said during an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA) on 11 March that there are too many sensitive words recently. Once there are words that deeply touch the nerves of the authorities, they will be immediately deleted. He said, "These sensitive words eventually touched the authorities' nerves. No matter what way you write, they are afraid. This can only prove that they are getting more and more afraid,.. "



Netizen Qin Yun wrote that after the article was deleted, the entire network began a relay race. First, the article was pasted and copied to other platforms, but the survival time was generally short, so an unprecedented reprint can be called an epic level. Spectacles occur, 1 essay version, 2 anti-text version, 3 English version, 4 Martian version, 5 Braille version, 6 inverted version, 7 garbled version, 8 obituary version, 9 classical Chinese version, 10 hand-drawn version, 11 Morse code Edition, 12 no-word edition, 13 latest vertical typesetting, 14 German, 15-coded edition, 16, voice ... these are unprecedented resurgent texts.

Some netizens told RFA that on Wednesday, various versions of "The Whistleblowers" appeared among the WeChat circle of friends. Some survived for hours and some only minutes. These posts by netizens have become emotional vents and protests because there are many versions that have lost legibility. Based on the information from all parties, the author of "The Whistleblowers" Ai Fen is one of the "whistleblowers" in the Wuhan epidemic, and the Director of the Emergency Department of Wuhan Central Hospital.  She took the lead in sending the information about the emergence of new SARS in Wuhan to the doctor's WeChat group, which was forwarded by the other doctors including Li Wenliang. Ai Fen was subsequently interviewed by the Wuhan Commission for Discipline Inspection.

In Wuhan, meanwhile, authorities have stepped up measures to restore traffic. 




By 20 March 2020, Wuhan Tianhe International Airport and other regional airports in Hubei plan to resume full airport operations. 

Wuhan doctor Zhang Yi told RFA, "On the Internet, there were pictures of the lifting of the operations ban on 20 March but I personally think it is more troublesome. Some people on the Internet have also called for the Beijing Two Conferences to be held in Wuhan. Openly, there is no problem with lifting the ban, otherwise it is encouraging sacrifice. I said yesterday that in my hospital, asymptomatic virus carriers are diagnosed every day. If the ban is lifted, these asymptomatic virus carriers may become super spreaders and those who have an underlying disease will be gone. "

Some netizens said that the ban on Wuhan's resumption of work must be lifted at the same time, but in the event of repeated infections, the consequences will be serious, and the government should take precautions.

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