Posted on 02/09/2020 1:03:44 AM PST by familyop
Chinese lives have undergone sudden changes as a result of the novel coronavirus epidemic. At the national level, Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province and the outbreak's epicenter, earlier announced a citywide closure to contain the virus.
Many provinces and cities have implemented harsh but effective preventive measures. People have been told to remain indoors, and in some places, only one member from each family is allowed to go outside to buy daily necessities every other day or longer.
In Beijing, residential communities have remained on high alert.
Entrance gates are closed all day, with the exception of one in my area. Those who do not live in the community are prohibited from entering. Delivery employees must wait for items to be received at the opening entrance gate. My friends who live elsewhere in Beijing said their communities had implemented the same rules.
Everyone in China is taking part in the fight against the novel coronavirus. People walking on the streets wear facemasks and those who don't are criticized by others. Office employees have been asked to work from home. Online courses are being offered either free or at discounted rates to students while schools remain closed. With each member of society making a contribution, the aim is to curb the spread of the virus, maintain order, and ensure that society functions as normally as possible.
During this period, daily inconveniences have emerged, and movement has been restricted, but we know that such measures and efforts are absolutely necessary for our own safety. It is with such endurance that we will defeat the virus. This is how the Chinese collective will plays out.
A recent Bloomberg report noted that China had sacrificed a province to save the world from the coronavirus. Not only has Hubei Province had to make great sacrifices, but Chinese from other parts of the country have shared the suffering of those in the province and made similar sacrifices.
While the nation fights through this hardship for both itself and the world, it is malicious for some Westerners to decry China's efforts without voicing sympathy and praise.
Reading through some Western media reports on China's fight against the outbreak, I could not find many encouraging and inspiring ones. Instead, I discovered discrimination and gloating.
Many of the reports made me feel as if every Chinese is living in despair and does not want to follow government measures, which have been referred to as human rights violations. However, this is not the case. Fear or anxiety of people is not from the government measures, but from the outbreak itself, in contrast with several media reports.
A latest New York Times article points an accusing finger at Wuhan, after several similar reports. It said the tougher measures imposed by Chinese authorities, including house-to-house checks and putting the potentially infected in quarantine centers, has led to a humanitarian crisis.
When the European refugee crisis was underway in 2017, how did European leaders respond? The focus of their discussions was not aimed at the importance of saving lives, but how to reduce the number of people entering their country, undermining claims from the European Union as a standard-bearer for human rights.
With the situation got severe in China in general and Wuhan in particular, when heavy-handed measures were delayed and further social or world damage could arise, should the Chinese government hold a referendum to let the public decide? If so, the number of people infected would multiply compared with the current figures, which would have caused greater panic in China and around the world. By then, we could only anticipate harsher and more inhumane criticism from the West.
With Western rhetoric, human rights are about absolute freedom, including freedom of speech and movement. But it ignores that the most basic human right is the right to life.
While Western elites indulge in psychological egoism and partisanship, China tackles social problems by driving up collectivism. That's how we understand the current lockdown management imposed by residential communities and cities as a means to curb the spread of the virus. This is also the reason why Chinese are doing their part to help their country return to normalcy as soon as possible.
The Chinese do not want another province or city to be sacrificed. Before that happens, we must remain steadfast in achieving our goal. While Western countries cannot help, the least they could do is refrain from using a sarcastic tone when writing about how China and the Chinese are combating the virus.
This once, let's give it a read and try to understand. Defense is of the utmost importance, but caring at a time like this is important, too. They're making some terrible sacrifices to contain the spread for us and the rest of humanity right now and deserve some respect for that.
Listen to our President, too. I'm guessing that he will say the same. We are Americans, and some of you know that we cared enough to support some real enemies in the past in their times of dire need. Who here remembers the freighters taking food to the Soviet Union long ago?
Yes, let's demand and get their respect, when they show us hostility. But let's also show them who were are, when they really need us.
WuHan Jiayou! Wuhan Jiayou!
Ping.
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From someone whose parents work at a hospital in China.
“Those death figures represent not only the death of heads (of families), but the breakdown of families. Behind those medical workers are the worries of millions of families.”
Yes. Once you're no longer useful to them, they will spit you out.
They’re making some terrible sacrifices to contain the spread for us and the rest of humanity right now and deserve some respect for that.
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I agree completely. The old “there but for the grace of God” adage applies.
China likely released something that was contained at a germ warfare lab, maybe even by accident. Who knows.
However for months I have been posting:
Screw you chicoms, screw you to hell. May the Chinese people rise and consume them.
Nothing has changed on this point. Let's hope the Chinese people can yet endure another plague unleashed upon them other than communism.
“If you want a friend in DC buy a dog.”
Good point. Thanks for putting everything back into perspective.
“Screw you chicoms, screw you to hell. May the Chinese people rise and consume them.”
Yes - sympathies to the Chinese people. But when I first heard about the quarantines, I thought it perhaps good that the CCP has so much power to put them in place.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this virus brings about a collapse of the CCP. I’m not sure what might take its place. Of course if it gets so bad it takes down the government of China - what other governments might it take down?
Although I guess the swine flu of 1918 didn’t take down any governments I don’t think.
Mao’s Starving a whole region so Communist China could get AK-47s from Russia by trading every available grain of the rice including the the rice that region should have been eating?
Now that was a sacrifice for the good of the whole...
I have seen too many horrid videos from China to have any sympathy for them.
Any animal they think some part of has a medical use will be hunted to extinction, every time.
People get run over in traffic and everyone just ignores them.
Karma...
CCP puff piece along with the standard ‘Do not criticize the Party’. The screaming as people are forcibly dragged off is just malcontents who don’t understand the greater good. The Party is making others sacrifice while make a plea to understand how much the Party is suffering.
Taking food, weapons, materials to the USSR during WWII was a huge blunder which set up the implementation of the Iron Curtain later.
A lot of Chinese see the West criticizing but not helping much in trying to stem a disease that could become a pandemic.
It shouldn’t be about politics but about simple humanity. If we’re not capable of empathy, the least we can do is remain mercifully silent.
An American died despite receiving the highest level of care. I don’t think a disease discriminates in who are the victims are and how its spread.
We all have our part to play in fighting the coronavirus whether we live in China or in the West.
“China had sacrificed a province to save the world from the coronavirus”
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oh pllllease. WE knew this was coming - China saving the world? The arrogance is astounding.
If a province was lost it was not to “save the world”. It was because the CCP are lying dogs who lied to their own people. And lied to the people of the world. And people died because of those lies. It’s outrageous.
This virus came from China. The CCP hid it for weeks as it traveled around the world. Maybe CPP paid 80yo people to travel and spread the virus so China could save face and come back to play “savior”?
Even now, foreign nations “can’t help” because the CCP blocks aid and assistance. China doesn’t want foreign investigators there. It’s the same thing as during SARs. Why have we been kept out for 30 days now? Why do our scientists have so little information from China? So we have to try to start from the beginning and figure it out on our own? And why is aid that does arrive not all being sent immediately to the public hospitals that are treating this virus? Who is keeping it?
Our nations are being stripped of medical supplies because the CCP pretends it has none of its own. And then the CCP has the nerve to threaten trade disruptions if we don’t accept planes of infected from China to fill our hospitals? Getoutahere.
Other nations taking precautions to protect themselves from a dangerous virus is not racism. Asking if someone has recently been to asia is not racism. Maintaining a personal space is not racism. Wanting to prevent the spread of a virus is not racism. It’s intelligence. It IS wanting to ‘protect life’ - of our families and families around the world, not just China. Sorry our wanting to remain uninfected hurts China’s fragile little pride but the world doesn’t revolve around the CCP - and never will.
China wants respect? Where is China’s apology to the world? Where is the information we needed a month ago? Oh, but you lecture us on pride. You lecture us on humanity. There’s a word for that in the West, it’s called being condescending. Well, we won’t be talked down to.
Why has noone in the CCP been held accountable for the lies and deceit that have cost almost a thousand innocent lives? CCP will make doctors go on TV and apologize and bow. Why hasn’t CCP? CCP will throw people in jail for spreading ‘rumors’. But every day they lie to the world. And more people die. Take your glass heart and put it back in your pocket, CCP shill. Earn your social credits elsewhere.
In the “Apocalypse” genre of stories, this precedes them shooting an EMP over California.
Well, they should have kept their bug in a jar.
On another website I saw an image that was a global map that lists the position, bearing, and speed IIRC of every commercial ship in all the oceans. Yesterday everything in half of the Pacific was anchored. That is going to begin having an impact on the global economy, I would think. Perhaps not bad for us, though. It could actually help us if all of a sudden we had to make everything here again.
Where is their humanity as they torture dogs and other animals before eating them? They don’t bother to kill animals humanely. Where is their humanity in all their civil rights violations of their citizens, including murdering prisoners to harvest their organs? Don’t lecture the West or anyone else about lack of humanity or sympathy.
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