{"id":1172459,"date":"2021-12-30T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172459"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:24","slug":"chinese-vent-pandemic-woes-to-dead-dr-li-wenliang-arrested-for-coronavirus-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-vent-pandemic-woes-to-dead-dr-li-wenliang-arrested-for-coronavirus-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Vent Pandemic Woes to Dead Dr. Li Wenliang, Arrested for Coronavirus Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-vent-pandemic-woes-to-dead-dr-li-wenliang-arrested-for-coronavirus-warning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Chinese citizens on Thursday marked the second anniversary of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang sharing a warning to fellow health workers that a SARS-type respiratory disease had begun spreading in the city, a warning for which police detained and \u201chandled\u201d him shortly before he allegedly died of the same disease.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s page on Weibo, one of China\u2019s few legal social media sites, became a meeting place for grieving Chinese citizens in the aftermath of his death in early February 2020. Li himself, dead at 34 after reportedly contracting Chinese coronavirus from a patient, has become a martyr of the anti-pandemic cause, his death prompting nationwide outrage. Chinese Communist Party officials have attempted to co-opt him as a hero of the dictatorship and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/29\/after-pushback-china-blames-local-police-for-coronavirus-social-media-arrests\/\">blamed<\/a>&nbsp;local police for his detention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In an apparent attempt to keep popular outrage from boiling over, the Chinese regime has not removed Li\u2019s Weibo page and has allowed users to post tributes there. The&nbsp;<em>South China Morning Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3161596\/chinese-internet-users-pay-tribute-wuhan-doctor-li-wenliang\">likened<\/a> the page on Thursday to a \u201ctree hole,\u201d meaning a quiet place for people to reflect and vent their emotions in peace. At press time, no reports of any arrests linked to anti-regime sentiment on Li\u2019s page have surfaced, though such arrests are always possible under the Chinese crime of \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19307754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Weibo-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19307754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Weibo-ap.jpg\" alt=\"In this April 27, 2017 photo, staff members wait for visitors at a booth for Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing. Three popular Chinese internet services have been ordered Thursday, June 22, 2017, to stop streaming video after censors complained it contained improper comments about sensitive issues. The move prompted a sell-off in the U.S.-trade shares of Sina Corp. and its microblog service, Sina Weibo. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Li\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/u\/1139098205?tabtype=feed\">final post<\/a> before his death, confirming that he tested positive for Chinese coronavirus on January 31, 2020, has attracted more than one million comments in the past two years. Many of the latest posts, published on Thursday, are statements of gratitude for his work. Others are messages directed to Li personally, asking, \u201cAre you ok over there?\u201d This refers to the afterlife or wishing him a happy new year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some individuals simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/china-covid-19-doctor-li-wenliang-whistleblower-wuhan-2407381\">posted<\/a> their own life updates, sharing their dinner plans with the late doctor or discussing how much their children had grown since he died. Still others attempted to update him on the disastrous coronavirus situation in China currently, writing to him that the regime had locked down the northern city of Xi\u2019an. The Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site\/\">locked down<\/a> Xi\u2019an, a major historical site for ancient Christianity, on December 23 and intensified that measure shortly thereafter \u2013 banning residents from leaving their homes even to buy food. As of Thursday, desperate Xi\u2019an residents have turned to the Internet to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/xian-residents-complain-of-food-shortages-as-lockdown-drags-on\/\">protest<\/a> that they are running out of food and starving at home, with no help from the communist government and no ability to ask the police for help.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Xi\u2019an resembles that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/02\/11\/famed-dissident-china-welding-people-shut-in-their-homes-to-fight-coronavirus\/\">Wuhan<\/a> shortly after Li\u2019s death, when police welded people shut in their homes to prevent them from leaving and reports mounted of people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/disabled-teenager-in-china-dies-at-home-alone-after-relatives-quarantined\">dying<\/a> alone at home of starvation or lack of access to necessary medicine. Unlike in Wuhan, Chinese officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/24\/china-admits-13-million-people-lockdown-panic-move-genocide-olympics\/\">admitted<\/a> through state media arms that the Xi\u2019an lockdown \u2013 and a growing number of similar measures around the country \u2013 are in part dramatic attempts to show the world that China will offer a safe atmosphere for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, scheduled to begin on the same week as the anniversary of Li Wenliang\u2019s death. The Olympics have been plagued by a variety of global criticisms and condemnation, most prominently, calls for a boycott in response to China\u2019s ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the west of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Li Wenliang was working as an opthalmologist in late 2019 when he began noticing a growing number of patients suffering from symptoms akin to viral respiratory disease. He took to WeChat, another government-controlled social media outlet, and sent a message to a group of health workers warning them of the disease. WeChat, unlike Weibo, is not a platform to post publicly; Li only posted the message to other members of his group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market,\u201d he wrote. SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is a disease caused by a different coronavirus; the Chinese coronavirus has since been officially named SARS-CoV-2. A month later, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control (CDC), Gao Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/02\/24\/study-china-lied-wuhan-virus-did-not-originate-in-meat-market\/\">claimed<\/a> that the Huanan Seafood Market was the \u201corigin\u201d of the virus, but the Communist Party has since abandoned that theory and claimed, without evidence, that the virus originated in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Wuhan police detailed Li for the post.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSome internet users have been publishing and forwarding fake news without verification, which has had an adverse social impact,\u201d a police statement published in January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/22\/china-handles-eight-people-posting-about-wuhan-virus-social-media\/\">read<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cEight people who engaged in illegal activities were summoned and their cases handled according to law, following a police investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Li was among the eight people; police never clarified who the other seven were or if they are currently alive. Police forced Li to sign a humiliating apology for urging fellow health workers to take infectious disease precautions like washing their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s death shortly after police \u201chandled\u201d him caused national outrage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15349777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vigil-for-Chinese-doctor-Li-Wenliang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15349777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/vigil-for-Chinese-doctor-Li-Wenliang.png\" alt=\"In this Feb. 7, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded for warning about the outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Hong Kong. China has taken the highly unusual move of exonerating the doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the coronavirus outbreak and later died of the disease. An official media report said police in Wuhan had revoked its admonishment of Dr. Li that had included a threat of arrest and issued a \u201csolemn apology&quot; to his family. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung, File)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Feb. 7, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded for warning about the outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Hong Kong (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung, File).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeople are grieving and furious, and have begun raising questions about why the hospital gave him emergency treatment for an excessive five hours after his heart had stopped beating,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, a state propaganda outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/02\/07\/people-grieving-furious-china-admits-botched-case-whistleblower-doctor\/\">admitted<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing fought the anger by joining along, organizing events and publishing statements honoring Li and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/29\/after-pushback-china-blames-local-police-for-coronavirus-social-media-arrests\/\">condemning<\/a> local Wuhan officials while attempting to create distance between Wuhan police and the national Communist Party. In Wuhan, however, Li\u2019s family endured persecution for months. Even a year later, Radio Free Asia (RFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/01\/05\/report-wuhan-central-hospital-doctors-and-families-monitored-kept-from-travel\/\">reported<\/a> that Li\u2019s wife and children were facing \u201crelentless pressure\u201d from the Communist Party and incessant surveillance to ensure they did not publicly condemn the regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities have also put huge pressure on Li\u2019s elderly parents, who have been unable to get over their son\u2019s untimely death, to prevent them from talking to the media,\u201d RFA reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese citizens on Thursday marked the second anniversary of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang sharing a warning to fellow health workers that a SARS-type respiratory disease had begun spreading in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}