THE CHINA COVER-UP (CONT.)

China’s lies, its suppression of information, its allowing of COVID-19 to spread from its origin in Wuhan around the world before letting us in on the extent of the problem, are very well known.

But what of the people in China who tried to warn us?

This disquieting information (assuming it’s correct) comes to us from an unbylined article at Radio Free Asia:

Whistleblowing Wuhan doctor Ai Fen is currently incommunicado, believed detained after giving media interviews about her initial concerns over the coronavirus, according to an Australian media report.

“Just two weeks ago the head of Emergency at Wuhan Central Hospital went public, saying authorities had stopped her and her colleagues from warning the world,” flagship investigative show 60 Minutes Australia reported on Sunday.

“She has now disappeared, her whereabouts unknown,” the show reported, also tweeting photos of Ai.

Ai was earlier given a stern reprimand after sending information about the early stages of the outbreak to a group of doctors, she wrote in a now-deleted essay published in China’s People (Renwu) magazine.

Titled “The one who supplied the whistle,” the article described how Ai had been silenced by her bosses after she took a photo of a patient’s test results and circled the words “SARS coronavirus” in red.

She alerted colleagues to several cases of the virus, and eight of them were summoned by police for sharing the information. Among them was opthalmologist Li Wenliang who later died of COVID-19.

Concern over Ai’s whereabouts is growing as the lockdown of Wuhan ended and Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the eastern province of Zhejiang to call on people to return to work.

New cases are still being reported, including asymptomatic cases such as the one reported Monday by health authorities in Pingdingshan in central Henan province.

Hubei resident Feng Jianbin said many people worried about the continued spread of COVID-19 by people with no symptoms.

“Asymptomatic carriers, as they’re called, are defined by the government, who just keep on redefining the parameters and then say that there are no confirmed cases,” Feng said. “The aim is mainly to cover up the reality.”

News website Caixin called on health officials to release official figures for the number of asymptomatic cases, who are not treated by the authorities as confirmed COVID-19 cases, even if they test positive for the virus.

Can anyone seriously accept the information coming out of China about COVID-19 (or, for that matter, anything else?)

How bad are things there?  How many more affected, how many more dead, are there that we are not being told about?  How many people know about this but – understandably – are scared to come forward and speak up, as Ai Fen did?

And when do our mainstream media start blaming China for this.  If nothing else, it will be a refreshing change from blaming Trump, as if he personally is overseeing the spread of COVID-19….