The doctors who died died of the virus itself, not because they were punished. The doctor who spoke out was chastised because he relayed info through an unofficial channel before the info was verified. Literally the same thing could and would have happened in the US. Enough.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1240304017407979525 …
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Replying to @hermit_hwarang
The doctors weren't told to mask up. The ones that did masked up defying orders. That's why they got infected and died. They were ARRESTED for talking about the disease, trying to warn people of the human-to-human transmission which China denied for about many more weeks.
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Dr. Li was visited by the police and given a warning. He was not arrested. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382 …
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Replying to @hermit_hwarang
Others were arrested, see thread. The official CCP paper says they were arrested. Dr. Li was threatened with arrest. The reason many healthcare workers got infected at first is the lack of PPE. Read the pieces I linked to. Authorities had a 40K person potluck in Wuhan on JAN 18!
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Instead of listening to the doctors, isolating the first few cases, having everyone wear proper protections in the hospitals, they kept things going as usual, threatening and carrying out arrests till January 20th. It was too late by then. How can we erase that?
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The GlobalTimes tweet you screenshotted links to this article, which only mentions that rumors were being spread online. Where is your source that doctors were arrested? https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1175369.shtml …
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They might have changed their article.
That’s why I screenshot.
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