4 years ago today, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. It went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know as #COVID19.
Days later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.”
He returned to work, contracted COVID from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020.
People were punished & died trying to keep others safe. Four years later, we still can't get people to care, mask, or protect each other.
@augieray While top quality N95s are a buck each. Or less.
@augieray Well … masking is useless, your comment shows what happens to those who care, and all the 'false statements' have been proven true. But I can see that you care … please allow the police to take you quietly.
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Had an Optometrist appointment a couple weeks ago. Wore a well-fitting N95. Dr remarked that my mask must fit well, ‘cuz it didn’t fog up the lens contraption.
Then he took the opportunity to remark on how difficult it had been during mask directive, then later “It turned out that Covid was no big deal.”
From a fucking medical professional, for Pete’s sake.
The insidious misinformation is acutely frustrating.
@kelvin0mql I have, on five separate occasions, educated doctors or nurses on the ongoing risks of COVID after they indicated the pandemic was over, there was no need to mask, and that we'd achieved herd immunity. It is amazing how little some healthcare workers know or care.
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I’d be suspicious of how they’d conversationally “go along” with said education, simply to get politely through the visit, only to thoroughly disregard everything you said once you left.
If RWNJ Doctors had a genuine scientific curiosity at all, they’d never parrot the BS in the first place. The truth is SO obvious, they have to be intentionally ignorant to not already know.
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@Zerohedge was on this weeks before. They called it. Said China was using the same f-upped playbook they promised to ditch after SARS.
@augieray This is not true in all regions / countries. The majority of people still mask in Thailand. My children mask in their elementary schools. We also mask when there is poor air quality.
An old work colleague of mine caught covid a couple of weeks back. It got worse, she had a massive heart attack and died a few days ago. A sharp reminder that severe covid doesn't just affect the lungs, it puts the whole body under stress and it's still killing people.
@mackaj I'm sorry
@augieray We got through the thickest part of this. We wore masks, sanitised and got vaccinated.
@augieray And the people who punished him already knew.
@augieray @JamesAshburnerCBR This looks like 5 facts followed by an assertion. #criticalThinking
@augieray @JamesAshburnerCBR An alternative expression, though it lacks oomph: “I feel frustrated that people don’t care, mask, or protect each other as much as I would like.”
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#solidarity from Tacoma 
@augieray Perhaps it's the inumerable lies and gaslighting associated with it and its "solutions" along the way. The control and coercion. The financial incentives. The fear mongering. The hypocrisy of those in charge. Just a guess.
@augieray A citeable article for your claims: https://www.bjnews.com.cn/feature/2020/01/31/682076.html
I think this is a very reasoned explanation of what happened:
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Yeah, but are gonna let woke commie f****t libtards tell you what to do, Augie? Even if it DOES involve you staying alive? Me, I'm gonna use my huge cache of fanatically hoarded guns to defend my right to engage in armed conflict in order to stop myself receiving adquate healthcare and other assistance from those evil Democrat paedophile cannibals! Or something.
@NjorogeMuzungu @augieray Poe’s law. Had me there in the first half lol.
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Heh-heh.... The problem is that Poe's Law might also be defined as "The tendency of online content posted by British people to whom the use of sarcasm and irony - however unfunny - is as normal as breathing, to be read by Americans who appear to have no concept of sarcasm and irony at all."
I dislike generalisations, but this one kinda seems to be true....
@NjorogeMuzungu @nop We Americans can be plenty snarky and sarcastic (but perhaps less dry than the British.) Still, you have to appreciate that in a world of absurd, outlandish, ridiculous attacks from MAGA supporters, Musk cultists, and COVID deniers, it can be REALLY hard to tell the difference between one person's sarcastic post of support and another's crazy attack of gibberish.
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I see your point, Augie.
In fact, we kinda have the opposite problem here in Britain: the increasing tide of really quite nasty fascist opinion being peddled is not seen as being as incipiently dangerous as it is really is, because the widespread satirical piss that is taken out of it is assumed to somehow nullify it. (Spoiler alert: it doesn't.)