- The lockdown seems less about finding a cure for a deadly virus and more about a government trying to project a powerful image by covering up the truth and simply leaving millions of people to fend for themselves: live or die on their own.
- I decided also to translate another paragraph, written by a Chinese netizen who reposted Fang’s essay, because it says so much about how Chinese people feel about the censors: A note to censors at Tencent: I am deeply touched by Ms.
- Her essay was in Chinese, but here is an excerpt I translated: It has been 16 days since the government locked down Wuhan.
- I posted on WeChat [a popular Chinese messaging app] that all people in Wuhan are crying for Dr.
- 29, 2020 “I cried softly as I read the article ‘Mom Passed Away In Wuhan Quarantine.’ I forwarded the article to my mother, telling her she must take good care of herself so I don’t become a motherless child.
- I want to highlight a few of them, to show my appreciation for their effort and to let more people in the West hear these unfiltered and uncensored voices directly from Wuhan.
- Fang’s essay and the difficult lives that people in Wuhan have endured.
- Li Wenliang, one of the eight whistleblowers who warned the public about the coronavirus in December 2019, she wrote an essay titled “Li Wengliang was the light in the darkness.” Chinese censors quickly deleted her post.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/13/hear-the-voices-from-wuhan-that-china-has-tried-to-censor/
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