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Coronavirus: China apologises to family of doctor who died after warning about COVID-19
SKY News ^ | March 20, 2020 | by Ian Collier

Posted on 03/20/2020 3:06:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

China has exonerated a doctor who was punished for warning about COVID-19 and later died of the disease.

Dr Li Wenliang and seven colleagues were reprimanded in December for telling friends about the emerging coronavirus threat on social media.

In an unusual admission of error, the ruling Communist Party's top disciplinary body has now revoked its earlier decision - and sent a "solemn apology" to Dr Li's family.

Two police officers have been issued with "disciplinary punishments" for their role in the original incident, a report by the National Supervisory Commission said.

Investigators found that Dr Li hadn't disrupted public order with his actions - describing him as a professional who had fought bravely and made sacrifices.

His family have now received a financial contribution to his funeral, as well as workplace injury compensation.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communism; coronavirus; drli; drliwenliang; liwenliang; virus; wuhanp4
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1 posted on 03/20/2020 3:06:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apologies for a crime they did? Strange.


2 posted on 03/20/2020 3:09:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder how much compensation the family got?

Still sucks to be him.


3 posted on 03/20/2020 3:13:22 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

so sorry for Epsteining him.


4 posted on 03/20/2020 3:13:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have the CDC and NIH been allowed into China...?


5 posted on 03/20/2020 3:14:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

bet Time doesn’t consider him for “Man of the Year”


6 posted on 03/20/2020 3:15:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure the government put his organs to good use!


7 posted on 03/20/2020 3:21:31 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: mewzilla
Have the CDC and NIH been allowed into China...?

Not yet. Maybe Feinstein can use her clout with the ChiComs and get them in.

8 posted on 03/20/2020 3:24:52 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77

The president was asked about outsourcing yesterday. (I think it was yesterday that I’m referring to.) He refused to answer the question.

But if the look on his face was any indication, God help the ChiComs.


9 posted on 03/20/2020 3:27:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla
But if the look on his face was any indication, God help the ChiComs.

My gut tells me that he going to even the score, and not for himself, but for us. The info he has on the whole deal is likely staggering, and if there is one man on the planet who can use it as a big-assed lever, it is him.

10 posted on 03/20/2020 3:36:54 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Biggirl

I suspect that the Chinese Communist Party is working hard on damage control. Mao ruled through both force of personality and brute force when required. As the leader of the “revolution,” he had a level of following among the party faithful no else could match.

Since then, the Party has relied upon its reputation. China was a chaotic mess for the century and a half before the CCP’s 1949 victory. The Party has argued that they alone can bring stability and prosperity to China. Until now, they have been able to shove responsibility for mistakes onto local and regional party officials. The national party could deplore actions, fire and/or execute officials, and claim the problem solved.

Since they hamfisted their response to the Wuhan virus, and got a lot of people killed. General Secretary Xi and the Party leadership are now frantically trying to show that a) its not their fault; b) only the Party’s leaders can fix the situation; and c) the Party is not weak, challenging the Party and/or leadership is a deadly mistake.

Blaming the U.S. for the virus and making this apology are just two steps of this damage control effort.


11 posted on 03/20/2020 3:48:17 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Awe so sawy we have to kee-ew hin


12 posted on 03/20/2020 3:55:42 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trying to mitigate the world wide rage over their trying to hide this thing. Not gonna work.


13 posted on 03/20/2020 4:09:41 AM PDT by 6ppc (If preteens acted like Democrats they would be grounded for life!)
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To: Biggirl

Where is Chen Qiushi, China?

We are going to call it “China Virus” until you let him go and let him talk.

If you killed him, it will be the “Xi Virus”. (because we’ll probably have to call the next 10 global pandemics “china virus”, too.)


14 posted on 03/20/2020 4:11:32 AM PDT by UNGN (i)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

[Until now, they have been able to shove responsibility for mistakes onto local and regional party officials.]


It’s a perennial in Chinese history. The emperor hand-picks local and regional officials from outside the provinces they administer, whose principal virtue is their loyalty* to him. Then he deflects blame to them when they carry out the policies he expressly put them in place to carry out.

* In order to prevent them from putting down roots and becoming powers in their own right (thereby raising the possibility of secession or a direct challenge to the throne), he rotates them at regular intervals. In many ways, China’s “local” officials are little more than tourists and ticket-punchers whose focus is on their next assignment, which means following the emperor’s orders slavishly. Which makes it ironic when the emperor blames them for his own mistakes in judgment.


15 posted on 03/20/2020 4:21:02 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I believe something good will come out of this....like the majority of medicines will be Made in the USA....

And other businesses will be coming home. I'd love to see Levi come home.

16 posted on 03/20/2020 4:53:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This man is a hero to me. He recognized what he was seeing was new and alarming after seeing just 4 patients. God Bless.


17 posted on 03/20/2020 4:58:46 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Probably not but they should.


18 posted on 03/20/2020 4:59:37 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Those precious middle voters are going to realize what perfidious bastards the Rats are for a decade.


19 posted on 03/20/2020 5:01:55 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

A lot of Americans died in Korea and Vietnam for this hero of yours and the despicable force for tyranny that he turned China into.

None of your intellectual posturing can paper over it.

I am hoping that this is a big enough mistake from China that America can set things straight.


20 posted on 03/20/2020 5:10:37 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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