I wrote:
> I am pretty sure news of it would leak out. Many dreadful false rumors are > spreading. News that is both dreadful and true would leak out, I think. > Just now, Chinese and world mass media reported: A doctor who was among the first to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, only to be silenced by the police, died on Friday after himself becoming infected with the virus, the hospital treating him reported. The Wuhan City Central Hospital said at 3:48 a.m. Friday that the doctor, Li Wenliang, had just died. “We deeply regret and mourn this,” it said on the Chinese social media site Weibo. Just hours earlier, the hospital had said it was still fighting to save Dr. Li, 34. People all over China were following this story. That is appalling yet true news. It came out right away. I am sure the authorities wish they could make it disappear, but they could not. Other recent examples include the photo of the dead man on the street, and the photo in today's news of the makeshift mass quarantine areas in stadiums and meeting halls, which Chinese people are comparing to the photos of arm camp treatment centers in the U.S. in 1918. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html This is bad news that is not being repressed. Not successfully repressed, in any case. Quote: Photographs taken inside the stadium showed narrow rows of simple beds separated only by desks and chairs typically used in classrooms. Some comments on Chinese social media compared the scenes to those from the Spanish flu in 1918. According to a widely shared post on Weibo, a popular social media site, “conditions were very poor” at an exhibition center that had been converted into a quarantine facility. There were power failures and electric blankets could not be turned on, the user wrote, citing a relative who had been taken there, saying that people had to “shiver in their sleep.”
