Posted on 03/20/2020 11:56:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Health authorities in China are reporting no new infections in the central city of Wuhan where the COVID-19 epidemic first emerged, but local residents said they fear there could be a resurgence of new cases amid an ongoing official cover-up.
"No new infections of the novel coronavirus were reported on Wednesday in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, marking a notable first in the city's months long battle with the virus and sending a message of hope to a world grappling with the pandemic," China Radio International reported on its website.
More than 10,000 people have now died in the pandemic that has spread around the world, forcing the confinement of tens of millions in their homes.
But Wuhan's tally of confirmed cases remained at 67,800 on Friday, where it has been since Tuesday, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party claimed that large scale transmissions have now largely been suppressed.
Patients continue to be treated at the city's fever clinics, CRI reported, a view that was confirmed by Wuhan residents who spoke to RFA.
Wuhan resident Zhang Ruyi said public trust in the government is at a low ebb, because of attempts by local health officials to cover up the emergence of the new pathogen in December, partly by suppressing information and partly by classifying the surge of new cases as "pneumonia."
"It's funny, that," Zhang said, adding that he is highly skeptical of the claim. "They're not just lying now; they've been lying since the start, by classifying [COVID-19] cases under other diseases."
"There are 60 million people in Hubei, and they have all just been left to live or die without any help," he said. "It's basically down to a person's immune system."
"They are saying that only a few thousand died here in Wuhan, but does that sound right?"
'Political pressure'
China has reported more than 3,000 deaths from confirmed cases of COVID-19, the majority of them in Hubei, of which Wuhan is the capital.
But Wuhan residents and citizen journalists have previously reported that funeral homes in the city were working round the clock to cremate bodies during the height of the epidemic there, while advertising to recruit manual workers to collect dead bodies from people's homes by night.
Social media reports posted by volunteers showed that more than 20 patients were admitted to Wuhan Tongji Hospital on Wednesday alone with symptoms resembling COVID-19.
"There were more than 20 cases at Tongji today," one volunteer posted. "Wuhan hasn't dared to report them, because [local officials] are under [political] pressure."
Calls to the medical and political departments of Tongji Hospital rang unanswered on Thursday.
Wuhan resident Liu Songyang said the city is still under an information lockdown, with ever stricter controls on public speech.
"We can't tell whether there are new cases in the hospitals or not," Liu said. "But local officials are sure to be covering up the truth."
"Judging from the past two months, rumors often turn out to be true predictions."
Relapsing after release
A resident of Hubei's Xiangfan city said local authorities had only reported five coronavirus out of a total of 17 in Yuliang prefecture.
"Nobody's allowed to talk about it," the resident said. "They are reporting that only five people were infected, and the patients aren't being held in a hospital."
"They're being given injections every day, but they're not allowed to tell anyone."
An Wuhan resident surnamed Wu said there was a long line of people at Wuhan Xiehe Hospital's fever clinic on Thursday.
He said many people who had been discharged from hospital had since tested positive for the coronavirus.
"Some of the people discharged from the temporary hospitals are relapsing and then testing positive after they get home," Wu said.
I’ve figured they are not rid of it. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong will be the bell weathers of reinfection.
We are too far into this and it has already cost us too much to give up but I wonder how long we can take this? I especially wonder if it will be worth even trying if LA County and the rest of Kalifornia give up and just let it run as they are showing signs of doing.
It will be impossible to seal kalifornia off.
I'm in a big risk group but it is what it is....
Why do I get the feeling that suddenly this will disappear as quickly as it appeared? At least as a news headline constant.
There's always a nugget of truth in these articles.
Vaccines will be slow in coming. But it looks like effective treatments are waiting in the wings.
CC
In my estimation, China is lying in order to preserve its place in the world economy.
”In my estimation, China is lying in order to preserve its place in the world economy.”
As long as China possesses the factories underlying the supply chains the US and European economies rely on it will preserve its place in the world economy.
Ironically the Federal reserve and US government are printing trillions to once again bail out speculators who add no real value to the economy — banks, hedge funds. Consider if that money was being spent to rebuild America’s industrial infrastructure. Our banks and corporations built the Chinese economy of today. You can be sure the Chico’s will not make the mistake of rebuilding US manufacturing.
Not disagreeing, but how are the speculators being bailed out?
I don’t have a problem with printing 1 trillion to save big & small biz and its employees. This could easily be recaptured over 5 years.
Coronaviruses mutate quickly.
RFA is supposed to shut up.
The whole world depends on China for facial masks.
Honestly, everything about this is just not right. The way China lied to the world, and now the US is on the verge of a total national shutdown that could go on for a month. Nobody is being honest about what this really is
Italy tells us where this all could be leading....a once in a millennium existential crisis that can leave the world altered forever.
Apparently 7 million subscribers of China Mobile have simply vanished and their numbers discontinued in the last 45 to 60 days, according to one Freeper’s link. No even for a big country like China it is not normal churn....besides China Mobile is the only approved cell service anyway. You can bet China will soon try to suppress that info. That tells you what has happened with covid19 in China.
Maybe it will mutate and we will start seeing zombies. At least we could identify who was infected then.
How Safe are you? The crisis just got real
“Join me for a big discussion and update about the current crisis, a new mandate to stay at home hit California and things are ramping up around the world, we need to keep on top of the situation and help each other as much as possible.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR-m2vnpEmM&feature=youtu.be
Winston AKA Serpentza from ADVChina spent 14 years living in China until he left last November due to increasing oppression and harassment from the CCP. He speaks, reads and writes Mandarin. He understands China like few do. Anything he puts out is a must-view.
The new CCP line in China is that they have solved the Coronavirus crisis, but that new cases are being brought in from abroad.
WILL CHINA WIN THE PANDEMIC WORLD WAR?
by Matt Bracken | Feb 26, 2020
Will China, the first country (and superpower) to suffer the effects of Covid-19, also be the first country to recover, and thereby gain an overwhelming strategic advantage, while the USA, Europe and the rest of the world suffer the pandemic’s worst effects for a longer and even more catastrophic period?
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/02/will-china-win-the-pandemic-world-war/
Funny how they re label just like the rats do here
“Not disagreeing, but how are the speculators being bailed out?”
Since September 2019 the Fed has been propping up the repo market. Don’t forget, the big Wall Street banks have returned to speculating in derivatives, on of the contributors to the 2008 financial meltdown. Here are some links to articles describing what the Fed is doing and the implications:
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/03/feds-balance-sheet-skyrockets-to-4-7-trillion/
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/new-york-feds-repo-loans-are-foaming-the-hedge-fund-runways/
China needs to be made to pay.
Hardcore.
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