From the deepest, darkest corner of the conspiracy net;
When Professor Xu published his essay, he warned that he was likely to be punished; he said he had already been suspended from work, lost his position as a professor, and had “freedoms curtailed” over critiques published nearly a year earlier.
“I can now all too easily predict that I will be subjected to new punishments; indeed, this may well even be the last piece I write,” he wrote at the end of his latest essay.
Friends say that, since publication, Xu’s account has been suspended on WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, and they have been unable to get in touch with him for days. Most believe he has not been detained, and is at home in Beijing, but his name has been scrubbed from Weibo, and only a few articles from several years ago showing up on the country’s biggest search engine, Baidu. Calls to his mobile phone went unanswered on Friday.
In a further reminder of the government’s strict controls, two citizen journalists who were reporting from the epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak have vanished this week, apparently detained.
Just like the flu.
Updated with a new report at the New York Times;
The cruise ship had been shunned at port after port for fear it might carry the coronavirus, but when the Westerdam arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, the prime minister greeted its passengers with flowers.
Amid assurances that the ship was disease free, hundreds of elated passengers disembarked. Some went sightseeing, visiting beaches and restaurants and getting massages. Others traveled on to destinations around the world.
One, however, did not make it much farther than the thermal scanners at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. The passenger, an American, was stopped on Saturday, and later tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Sunday, with passengers already headed for destinations on at least three continents, health officials were scrambling to determine how a big a problem they now have — and how to stop it from getting bigger.
“We anticipated glitches, but I have to tell you I didn’t anticipate one of this magnitude,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
With more than a thousand passengers from the Westerdam headed for home, Dr. Schaffner said, it may be harder than ever to keep the coronavirus outbreak contained to China. […]
More than 140 passengers from the ship flew to Malaysia, and all but the American woman who tested positive and her husband were eventually allowed to continue on to their destinations, including the United States, the Netherlands and Australia, officials said. Over 1,000 other passengers took charter flights to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and were in various stages of transit home, the cruise line said.
…he wrote at the end of his latest essay.
Whta essay was that?
“Don’t eat the btas”
When a match is found, he’ll be donating his heart.
So what is the likelihood that the CCP is not letting a good crisis go to waste…..and is using this as a smokescreen to round up “dissidents” and make them disappear?
1.4 billion people should be able to overthrow a few thousand government employees:-)))
A large herd of cows should be able to overrun a few cowboys too. But they rarely do.
“One man with a gun can control one hundred without one.”
V. I. Lenin
“How can one individual withstand the astronomical weight of the state?”
Josef Stalin
rizball, you couldn’t count to one, never mid to a 100, many a man has sacrificed their life to save others, and that is the fly in your ointment
agreed. the question becomes, how many bullets in the gun?
get it rizzywazzy?
Probably like the former East Germany where every 5th citizen is a government informant, and the walls have ears.
Yes, ain’t it just swell that the Prime Doofus “admires basic dicatatorship”…because you’ll never miss your freedom if you’ve never had it in the first instance.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
That news of the 80 year old getting off the ship and starting the flight home just made my stomach drop. If we assume that the same percentage were infected as on the other ship at 10% and with an R0 at like 3-4 now scattered around the world after contaminating who knows how many others in the airports on the trip home…pandemic here we come. Let’s hope the death rate is lower than the official 2%.
did you guys hear about the two Japanese tourists in Hawaii?
…they were diagnosed with it after they got back to Japan
Did they catch it in Hawaii….then expose everyone on their flight back?
Did they have it before they left on vacation…expose everyone on the flight over and everyone in Hawaii?
Did they catch it on the plane on the way to Hawaii?
“That news of the 80 year old getting off the ship and starting the flight home just made my stomach drop.”
That was bound to happen sooner or later. He is just a case that was caught, many more were not caught, it is a statistical certainty.
“Let’s hope the death rate is lower than the official 2%.”
Current officially made up numbers are 1775 dead for 10972 recoveries. That is around 14% not 2%. All other cases are … pending conclusion.
The Official Death Rate is utter Bullshit…it been utter bullshit all along.
I’m betting that right now we are looking at ~150-200,000 Dead in China.
When you’ve got crematorians going 24/7 with bodies being stacked up..??
When you’ve got Chinese Cops Boarding up homes of “suspected” carriers..??
When you’ve got thousands of people disappearing daily…Where did they go.??
When you’ve got EVERY Major city in the country under Lockdown..??
and the Chinese mantra is “dont worry be happy”..? Nothing to see here.
When you have Equipment that looks like it was created in Hollywood for Racoon City and whhich was READY PRIOR to this COVID-19 escaping…?? You gotta know this is not your normal Flu or anything even remotely like it.
All in a City that housed the only level 4 Bio containment lab in China. TELL ME, dont you find that (a steady 2.1% death rate), just a little too convenient..??
This INSANITY perpetrated in my opinion by these CRAZY MoFo’s in the Chinese Politbureau….with a little helping hand facilitated of course by PM Shitferbrains. Remember we kicked out a cpl of Chinese Nationals that were working in our very own Level 4 lab in the Peg.
I can’t imagine why.???
I’m simply hoping no one gets admitted to the Foothills in the next 2 weeks.
I’m scheduled for a Quad Bypass..
wishing you well with the quad. the medics are very skilled and practiced at this, you will be ok and up and about soon.
keep us posted.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/15/amazing-but-hidden-news-about-coronavirus/
Larry’s being an ass….of course everyone is acting the same….it’s China…that lies and hides and fabricates everything
…just like climate scientists
The Grauniad continues to ignore the REAL globalist/Chinese communist conspiracy to destroy “capitalism” (i.e. Western civilization), preferring to repeat lies about a fictional “Zionist”/”Russian” conspiracy to thrust Donald Trump into office and bewitch a gullible British people into leaving the blessed EU, no matter how obvious they become. Indulging the favoured conspiracy theories and prejudices of the likes of Mike Bloomberg, George Soros and Bill Gates is how it stays in business.
“Just like the flu.”
Yep, passed 70K official cases now. Wonder what real number does that reflect?
But no reason to close the borders or suspend flights … and that passenger who begun showing signs of disease right after her flight from China landed in Vancouver could have contracted it anywhere … and she wore a mask so no danger to other passengers … and masks don’t help … so don’t be lining around the block to get one because UBC and SFU students with chicom passports already cleaned up every pharmacy … and nothing to see here move along.
I wonder if the “recovered” now have some immunity to it?
Earlier news said no.
Chinese scientists says COVID-19/coronavirus could have originated from government …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0gww2yznI
Its coming or its not. Prepare or don’t.
Most people will stick their head in the sand, expose their ass and then wonder why it hurts so bad.
And when it hurts they will demand government does something.
Government is doing something you morons. It is making sure flights from China arrive in Canada with no interruptions so Chicoms with high social credit score can get Canadian heath care.
This was linked yesterday by Epoch Times and I’m only linking it again because there is some good information here that could help you or your family:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLKDm1nJ92oesGrVYibBZu36doa0kRk75w&v=Jcthdee6CXs
BTW Kate was way out in front on this issue. She had this sized up before anyone else.
What, you mean my flu shot won’t work?
A few notes:
From the Times:
“The husband has also been tested twice for the virus, and the results were negative both times. But he has pneumonia, which is often a sign of the virus that appears before it can be identified through testing.”
If this is accurate, pneumonia presents with a very low viral load. This is why the high mortality per resolved case rate persists. The virus may have primary and secondary forms for which the test can only confirm the latter. Regardless, the two week benchmark for quarantine is too short.
I withdrew from the man made vs. natural occurrence debate when the pangolin came into scope. Interestingly, we should already have data showing whether the pangolin carries a closer match to this particular pathogen.
never saw a crucible the size of a cruise ship before.
seriously, what fcuking INSANITY does it require to keep all those people jammed int the same place as the infected ones?
and it isnt me to come up with a strategy. THAT is the domain of the ex-spurts.