A Chinese doctor (Mr. Li Wenliang) had warned the authorities that there is a new virus spreading and it was yet to be cured because they didn’t have vaccine in December 2019, and urged the authorities to react. In the end, what? Police summoned him and forced him to pay apology.
China had done the same with SARS before. They hid it for 93 days before it was officially acknowledged that it had gone out of control. At that time, transportation in China hadn’t developed like now, so at least, they managed to contain it well.
With million of Chinese traveling abroad today, many carrying money, what are you going to examine? How many Chinese go abroad carrying the virus we didn’t know? They only reported about the disease when it was close to the Lunar New Year, thus forced the Lunar New Year’s celebration to be cancelled. By then, the authorities’ reaction was in complete shamble because of government’s prosecution and media censorship.
You can claim the Chinese Government is hiding nothing. But they had been hesitant to react with the disease until it was near Lunar New Year. Be thankful that the disease was at least not as dangerous as SARS or MERS. What a waste for a great celebration delayed by the incompetence of the authorities.
Everyone？Who is everyone？I’m living in Wuhan as a local resident.We have been informed when the hospital found and confirmed the first patient who carried the new virus.And the next day，the number of people who were infected was increasing.Two days later, government started to take some actions.But it was too late to control the spread of virus.So，in order to reduce the risk of increasing more patients，this city is still blocked.If you want to know something about that，you can search it everywhere.And you will see all kinds of data.Those are completely visible.By the way, is it necessary for us to hide the information?How can we benefit from this?
Now，I want to add something.The situation is being under control.I have to admit，our people and our government have done something wrong.Those people from other countries have the right to blame us，and of course we will take it，we deserve it.But please get together now，DON’T MAKE UP something to insult us.
It’s probably due to the anti-CCP sentiment that has been very prevalent in western social media. Anyone that has played plague.inc knows how much easier killing humanity would be if there was less awareness about their disease.
I mean, even if you didn’t give a rat’s ass about human rights, you would have an interest in keeping your population alive, since they are a source of income.
The key here is to spread awareness of the virus so that the population can be more cautious, but not hyping it up to a Black Death 2.0, which would result in a greater spread of the disease out of panic.