List of Articles – Reader Type: “Moderately Well-Acquainted Reader”

You remember the Edgar Allan Poe story – The Masque of the Red DeathProspero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land. Victims are overcome by “sharp pains”, “sudden dizziness”, and “profuse bleeding at the …

“Abandon all hope” is how I titled a recent post on the response of Wuhan people to the virus.  The title was based on the stories I was hearing, both live and through wechat groups.Now, this is the language Chinese are themselves using to describe their situation.  When people lose …

Update at January 30 – regarding the doctor who was disciplined for sharing information on the virus with his wechat group – there are now eight doctors in Wuhan who have been so disciplined.  In at least one case, the information sharing was among a wechat group of doctors involved in …

From three days ago -http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/25/c_138733715.htm… According to the meeting, Xi has been paying very close attention to the outbreak as he held multiple meetings, heard many reports and made important instructions on the matter, demanding Party committees and governments at all levels and related departments to put people’s life and health as …

January 26, 2020  7:00 CSTWuhan residents are cheered a little by reports that military doctors and nurses are being dispatched to Wuhan and neighboring cities.  My report is that all cities in Wuhan are now quarantined. Every province in China has cases of the coronavirus except for Tibet.The Hubei governor …

New Year’s Eve, 2020 My wife is in the other room right now, crying. She has been reading Wuhan stories, those that get through before they are blocked.Even now, with the panopticon state nearly complete, some individual wechat messages do get through for a while.  The stories are too long to …