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I call this intelligentsia-baiting. Where one needs to educate others parroting insights(/memes) from coastal-elite-marking editorials without reading primary s
by xster 6y ago
I call this intelligentsia-baiting. Where one needs to educate others parroting insights(/memes) from coastal-elite-marking editorials without reading primary sources.
Li Wenliang was neither a whistleblower nor did he have any first-hand novel data to share. He, an ophthalmologist, received a private group message within the hospital from ER department director and he simply re-shared the message to other private groups with his classmates.
The ER director, Ai Fen, was the source of the hypothesis that some patients in the hospital had, incorrectly, SARS and she was the right channel to escalate in the first place. And her escalation was successful when 1 nurse was observed to have been infected on January 11th.
Li never intended to broadcast anything to the public. What he did privately share was far less detailed than was on the official Wuhan government site [1], the Hubei provincial site [2] and just general mainstream social media [3] from the same date anyway.
[1] http://archive.is/s9elD http://archive.is/s9elD
[2] http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/201912/t20191231_1822343.shtml http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/201912/t20191231_1822343.s...
[3] https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2019-12-31/detail-iihnzhfz9452319.d.html?from=wap https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2019-12-31/detail-iihn...
- d10r 6y agothx for sharing this!