On May 11, more than one month after Wuhan reopened, the authorities suddenly announced that citywide nucleic acid testing would be conducted for over 11 million residents in Wuhan after six new cases were reported.
The testing would be done within 10 days, and it is called “10 days of mass battle.”
People have asked: Why is such a dramatic move needed if there were only 6 new cases? Is it feasible to test 11 million people in only 10 days? Why did they do it?
Well, actually, things may not be as simple as we see them on the surface; and there could be much deeper reasons lying behind this “10 days of mass battle”. Today let’s try to explore what the secrets are.
Historical Numbers of Tests
First of all, let’s check a little bit of the history of Wuhan’s nucleic acid testing, during the peak of the outbreak.
When the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, first compiled data on the epidemic, it focused only on the number of confirmed cases and death tolls. It didn’t take much consideration into the testing, or the testing numbers.
At the early stage of Wuhan’s lockdown, there were not enough testing kits, or qualified testing personnel or institutions to do the tests, so the CCP just ignored the testing altogether.
On January 27, the Wuhan Health Commission announced that “from January 23 to 27, 4086 tests were conducted, among them 712 came back as positive”.
However, the confirmed cases announced that day were 1,590, more than twice the number of the positive test results. From this we knew that nucleic acid testing is not the main means of confirming cases then.
On January 28, Wuhan Health Commission said that “the number of fever outpatient consultations increased day by day, with more than 15,000 people during peak hours”, “from January 22 to 27, the city received a total of 75,221 fever patients in fever outpatient consultations”. At that time, the total test number is just 4086.
On Jan. 29, the Wuhan Health Commission said that, because the virus was very contagious, and that the researchers needed to gradually get familiar with the testing process, so there wouldn’t be more than 2000 tests in the beginning, which means, the maximum testing capacity of the city was only nearly 2000 per day.
This confirms claims made by many Wuhan residents back then that a large number of patients could not get a test.
On February 6, Wuhan Health Commission said that “Wuhan City has announced 64 fever clinics to facilitate the screening of fever patients in each district for isolation treatment.”
This shows that 2 weeks after the lockdown of Wuhan, the city was still mainly relying on symptoms of fever instead of virus testing results to judge whether to quarantine or give treatment to patients.
At the same time, without a testing result, one’s case couldn’t be confirmed, nor could one get admitted into the hospital; and the government wouldn’t cover the medical costs if one didn’t have a confirmed case.
On March 3, Wuhan Health Commission announced that “The number of nucleic acid tests on Mar 1 was as high as 18,127 people”, and half of the tests were for suspected cases and close contact cases.
At that stage, Wuhan had been in lockdown for over a month, so the test number of some 18 K was not a large number in any sense.
At that time, the CCP was trying to create a “peak”, an inflection point for the epidemic, by discharging a large number of patients from the hospital, so nearly half of the test capacities were used to repeatedly test patients who were going to be discharged.
After that, the authorities stopped announcing new testing numbers. It is likely that no more testing had been done since then.
On the other hand, the accuracy of the testing remains low and they had to do the test repeatedly on the same person. The international community learned that the accuracy ratio of Chinese test kits was as low as 20-30% only after some countries imported them in March.
On March 26, Wuhan Health Commission again announced a new testing number, saying that 9,844 tests were conducted on March 24. It shows that the number of testing had decreased. Perhaps the CCP had realized that testing was not that useful, so they stopped testing, as they wanted to have zero new cases anyway. If you stop doing testing, you of course won’t get any new cases. That’s why we kept seeing no new reported cases in Wuhan for as long as 35 days, until May 9, when 6 new cases were announced.
Defeating the US and Other Countries
So what’s the problem of not doing tests? Because now we have international comparisons.
After the pandemic spread to Europe and the US, many countries placed great importance on testing capabilities, and the media kept updating daily test numbers.
That’s why the CCP suddenly realized that it had forgotten to make up enough testing numbers. Countries have already begun to question the epidemic data released by the CCP, so lacking testing data would soon become another huge problem for the CCP.
To make this up, the CCP had already secretly changed its testing numbers, before announcing the mass testing in Wuhan.
On 8 April, on the day when Wuhan reopened, Wuhan Health Commission announced that the number of tests on that day had suddenly increased to “27,649”, and on April 19, Wuhan Health Commission again announced that the number of tests had reached “an average of 46,000 per day”, and that “since March 18, the city has tested 627,000 people”.
The city of Wuhan has a population of 11 million people, so 627,000 is still a very small number, and that doesn’t look good enough after the city had been locked down for more than two months.
On May 1, Wuhan Health Commission again announced that on April 30, 57,938 tests were done, which again shows that the CCP was trying to make up the numbers.
The reason for the CCP to do so is that on April 30, the UK exceeded its target of 100,000 tests per day. And the US has even bigger test numbers. As of now, the total number of tests in the US is nearly 12 million.
So, that is the main reason why the CCP has to do a citywide test in Wuhan. It has been boasting about its status as a “Great Power in Defeating the Pandemic”, so the number of total tests much “defeat” that of the United States and other countries too.
Preparing for Potential International Investigations
The international pressure to hold the CCP accountable for the pandemic is mounting, and the CCP certainly feels it.
There have also been criticisms that the CCP had discharged patients without really having them cured.
So, by conducting mass, citywide testing, the CCP can later announce that a certain number of “asymptomatic infections” have been found. When people accuse the CCP for covering up the outbreak or irresponsibly discharging patients, they can say, “Oh, there were so many ‘asymptomatic’ cases. What can we do?”
If there are any more outbreaks, they can also use “asymptomatic infections” as an excuse for failing to control the disease.
Digesting Returned Test Kits
Another reason for the mass test could be to “digest” the returned test kits. I think we’ve read many news reports about countries returning testing kits they imported from China after finding them no good.
For example, Britain purchased 2 million test kits from China for at least $20 million, only to find them prove ineffective and have to be returned.
Many countries experienced the same thing. So the total number of these returned test kits is likely to be close to 10 million units.
You know China is ruled by CCP. It is impossible for a company to gain export permission if this company doesn’t have close ties to the CCP, or is not directly owned by the CCP. The real bosses behind those companies that could export the test kits to other countries are naturally powerful people at all levels of the CCP. So the CCP naturally didn’t want to have those people suffer the losses of the returned test kits.
So, that’s how a citywide test campaign was needed: To “digest” the returned test kits.
Making More Money
On May 15, the Hubei Provincial Health Insurance Bureau and Hubei Health Commission jointly issued a notice, saying that from May 16 onwards, the price of nucleic acid testing would be adjusted from not higher than 180 yuan, or $25, to not higher than 132 yuan, or $18.57, and antibody testing shall be decreased from not higher than 50 yuan, or about $7, to not higher than 40 yuan, or about $6.
So, if one person does two tests, that’s about 172 yuan, or $25. For 11 million people, the total cost, or income for organizations that provide the testing service, will be nearly 19 billion yuan, or 275 million US dollars. That’s big business, right?
Chinese media Caixin reported that the citywide test in Wuhan would be mainly conducted by “third party” companies, and hospitals and CDCs of each district in Wuhan would help with taking the samples. This means that those “third party” companies will of course gain the payments from the tests.
On May 5, Hubei Province and Wuhan City Medical Security Bureau issued a notice, saying that nucleic acid testing would be temporarily included in the medical insurance policies, and the individual out-of-pocket ratio is 10% to 30%; while Wuhan City inpatient nucleic acid testing individual out-of-pocket ratio is set at 10%.
So, regardless who is going to pay for the test, whether it’s the individuals, the government, or the insurance companies, those “third party” companies will have much to gain. How much corruption lies behind this? Nobody knows.
Political Needs
Another reason is, the CCP is going to hold its most important annual political conferences soon, on May 21. The conferences are the conference for the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
So, by conducting such a mass testing, the CCP can again boast its “achievement” in battling the pandemic, and can show to Chinese people and to the world how hard the CCP is working to battle the pandemic.
Can the CCP Really Do it?
However, can the CCP really do it?
According to Wuhan Health Commission, on May 10, 39,735 nucleic acid tests were conducted. This means only less than 40 K tests were done on that day.
State media Hubei Daily reported on May 14 that there are currently 63 nucleic acid testing institutions and 386 sampling sites in Wuhan, and the daily nucleic acid testing capacity in Wuhan can reach 100,000 under “extreme conditions”.
That is to say, the maximum amount of tests that can be done each day is 100,000. But to finish testing 11 million people in 10 days, you need to do 1 million in a day.
So, can they really do it? Or, will they just announce they have done it at some stage? You can make your own judgment.
A Show, A Risking Campaign, Or Sheer “Nonsense”?
Since the announcement of the “10 days of mass battle”, videos and pictures of people lining up in close distances and waiting to be tested are being circulated on the Internet. In one audio file, a woman could be heard calling the mass testing a “stupid decision”.
She asks, “In the middle of this testing process, what happens if there is cross-infection? When you are tested, you need to open your mouth and take the mask off, right? How can medical workers change their masks and gloves in such a short period of time? How do you guarantee disinfection? Then there are those who cough and sneeze in the process and the air around them is polluted, how do you disinfect in time? These are questions you didn’t even think about, and then you just ran out to have 10 million more people tested. Stupid decision, such a stupid decision!”
She also said that her son had not left home for months, and had not been infected. However, going out to do the test could get her son infected. What nonsense!
Citizens are also worried about leaks of personal information too. A netizen revealed that at a testing site in Jiangan District, everyone was required to show their ID before the testing, and the staff would take a picture of everyone holding their IDs. The netizen said this is illegally gathering people’s personal information.
Other residents said the same thing happened in other districts too.
On May 17, the official Weibo Account of Jiangan District published a post, saying that the photos containing people’s ID cards have been deleted, and this kind of thing won’t happen again in the future.
But the public is not convinced. They ask, “Why haven’t those people been punished? How can you prove that those photos have been deleted? If they’ve already been forwarded to others, what can we do?”
Deleted Reports (Again)
Okay, these are some of the secrets behind Wuhan’s mass testing. How many tests have been done? How many “asymptomatic infections” have been found? We have no idea.
Several days ago, some Chinese media reported that initial testing results in Wuhan show that at least 500K have been infected. News titles can still be found if you search for them. However, when you click on those titles, you’ll find the reports have been deleted.
So here we go again: In CCP ruled China, everything can be a “national secret”. We may never be able to find out all the real numbers, or truths.
So, when the CCP promises that they will allow an independent investigation, don’t trust them either. They will try to destroy the evidence first and corrupt the investigation, just like what they have been doing all the time with international organizations and initiatives.
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5/18/2020
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Why Should the World Support Hong Kong as It Faces Grave Danger
Hello, everyone, nice to see you!
If you are following me on Twitter, you might have seen that I shared quite some videos and photos of the intense protest in Hong Kong last Sunday. Large crowds, tear gases, police brutality, and mass arrests…scenes that we had been seeing for months last year came back to the streets of Hong Kong. People are taking to the streets again to express what they want.
What Do They Protest For?
And what do they want exactly? To put it in a more specific way, they want to protest against the so-called “National Security Law” which is set to be passed on May 28 by the People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, or the CCP.
They also want to protest against the “National Anthem Law” that the HK government is pushing.
If the “National Anthem Law” is passed, anyone in Hong Kong can be found guilty of actions such as “singing the [Chinese] national anthem in a distorted or disrespectful way”, and they could face a fine up to HK$50,000, or $6,440, and three years in prison.
If the “National Security Law” is passed, virtually anything the CCP doesn’t like can be defined as a threat to “national security”, and the CCP’s police can go directly to Hong Kong to enforce the law. Hong Kong will become a city of China; and “One Country, Two Systems” will officially be dead.
So, to put it more broadly, people of Hong Kong are defending their freedom, their way of living, and their autonomy that the CCP promised to give them when taking back Hong Kong from the UK in 1997.
A Brief History of Hong Kong
I guess everybody already knew this: Hong Kong was given to the British Empire in 1842 as a colony after the First Opium ˈəʊpiəm War by the Qing Empire which was governing China then. The colony expanded later after the Second Opium War. In 1898, Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories, one of the three main regions of Hong Kong.
In 1997, when the lease was over, Hong Kong was given back to China, on the condition that the CCP would guarantee Hong Kong’s economic and political systems for 50 years after the transfer. So the term “One Country, Two Systems” has been used to describe the status that although Hong Kong has become part of China, the social system is different. Hong Kong can still maintain its previous ways of living.
The Battle Has Long Since Begun
The problem is, when the CCP promises something to gain something, it never intends to keep its words. After it gains that something, it will just swallow its words. That’s what the CCP has been doing to Hong Kong.
The first major attempt for the CCP to impose some sort of “law” to limit Hong Kong’s freedom was in 2003 when the CCP tried to push the so-called “Basic Law Article 23”.
It states that Hong Kong “shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People’s Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organizations or bodies.”
That push was met with great resistance from the people of Hong Kong. Half a million people took to the street to protest against it. The CCP had to give up that attempt.
Since then the battle between the people of Hong Kong and the CCP never stops. At the peak, before the current pandemic, 2 million people took to the streets to protest in June last year.
The CCP’s Mentality
You might wonder: What are they battling for? Why do they fight each other? What is at stake?
Before answering these questions, let’s watch a 2-minute video first. It is a speech made by CCP general Xu Yan at the “2018 Annual Meeting of National Famous Teachers’ Workshop Union” in China. Nearly 2000 educators and students attended that conference. The English subtitles are translated and added by me.
I have to say this short 2-minute speech tells us a lot. That’s how the CCP looks at the people of Hong Kong, and that’s also how the CCP looks at the people of the free world. At the deepest level of CCP’s conscience and sub-conscience, any human being who thinks differently, who cannot be controlled is an enemy of the CCP. They don’t accept people who have different values, or who cannot be turned into slaves.
That’s why ever since Hong Kong was transferred to the CCP, the CCP has been feeling that this place, and the people of this place, are like a thorn in its back.
For example, after the CCP decided to crack down on Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation and self-improvement system, in 1999, and threw hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in jail, or murdered them by harvesting their organs, you virtually cannot see any Falun Gong practitioners publicly practicing Falun Gong exercises in China anymore, although many of them are still practicing at home. So the CCP can declare victory over Falun Gong.
However, in Hong Kong, Falun Gong practitioners can still be seen everywhere, and they actively organize all sorts of activities to raise awareness of the persecution in China and to expose the CCP’s anti-humanity crimes.
So, this is also a thorn in CCP’s flesh.
Another thing the CCP hates very much about Hong Kong is that Hong Kong still has freedom of speech. Many books and publications that criticize the CCP, or talk about the crimes and scandals of the CCP leaders, can be published and sold in Hong Kong, and many mainland Chinese people especially travel to Hong Kong to buy them and then take them back to China.
The CCP has made such tremendous efforts to control information and free speech in China, how can it allow this to happen in Hong Kong?
That is why the CCP cannot wait for 50 years to turn Hong Kong into a colony of its own.
On the other hand, people of Hong Kong have enjoyed freedom and prosperity as part of the free and civilized world. They can not bear to have their freedom taken away.
Let’s also watch a 2-minute video to learn how people of Hong Kong feel and think. The lyrics of the video go like this:
When you choose to travel far
You’ll have to always march forward
When you choose brightness
You must break free from the darkness.
When you choose honor
You must conquer fear
When you choose faith
You’ll have to defend it with life
Goodwill alone cannot defeat the evil
Justice must have an iron fist of its own
If the civilized world didn’t have the weapon of justice
This world would have long been devastated
Freedom won’t fall from the sky
We must fight for it
If people of Hong Kong don’t fight today
Tomorrow we’ll become slaves of the CCP
Without land, without freedom
Without rights, without dignity.
Only exploitation and slavery generations after generations
And we’ll be forced to thank the CCP
Not Compatible
I believe after watching this video, as well as listening to what people of Hong Kong think, you will understand that the values and the mentality of CCP and people of the free world are totally different, and are completely opposite to each other.
In this sense, CCP’s social system is not “compatible” with that of the free world. Although people in the free world might think we can “co-exist” with the CCP, the CCP doesn’t think they can co-exist with the free world. That is the fundamental reason why they must kill the “One Country, Two Systems” in front of the entire world.
Why Now?
Another question to ask is: Why did the CCP choose to push this agenda NOW?
On May 22, the day when the CCP announced that it would push forward the “National Security Law”, CCP’s mouthpiece the People Daily published an article saying that “Hong Kong must not be allowed to become a loophole in terms of national security”.
On the following day, May 23, the People Daily published another article saying that the “anti-China politicians” in the West are recklessly interfering with Hong Kong’s affairs because of the “national security” “loophole” in Hong Kong. So the central government cannot allow an “undefended” Hong Kong to exist anymore.
We can say that is the official explanation of the CCP.
Other “unofficial” theories are:
To Divert Attention
Faced with mounting pressure from the international world of holding the CCP accountable for the pandemic, the CCP desperately needed something to divert attention. If they succeed, they win, it’s a bonus for them. Even if they don’t succeed in passing the law, they are still successful as they’ve opened up another battlefield to divert the world’s attention. So it is a careful calculation for the CCP. They have nothing to lose, although Hong Kong will be a victim. They don’t care about Hong Kong anymore, as it is causing too many headaches.
To Prevent the Potential Disgraceful Failure in Legislative Council Election
Another theory is, Hong Kong will soon have its Legislative Council election, that is, in September this year, only about 3 months away.
In last year’s local elections in Hong Kong, as well as this year’s Taiwanese presidential election, pro-CCP figures or parties lost very badly and disgracefully. People regard both elections as referendums on the public’s choices: both people of Hong Kong and Taiwan voted a big fat “No” for the CCP.
So, the CCP worried that if it didn’t take some dramatic measures to crack down on Hong Kong, it would lose bitterly again in the upcoming Legislative Council election. If that happens, it means the CCP will lose its control over Hong Kong in many ways. So the CCP must stop that no matter what.
The CCP Cannot Help Itself From Doing Evil
My own theory is that it is pointless to try to figure out why and how the CCP would do something, as CCP’s mentality is not something that normal human beings can fathom. Why do I say so?
When anything is created, it is given a purpose or a mission. For example, when we create a cup, we want to use it to drink water. When we create a pen, we want to use it to write.
When the evil specter of Communism was created, it was given a mission to destroy humankind. Period.
So while we would imagine that a normal government, a normal political party in a normal society would consider social consequences when making decisions, the CCP won’t.
I doubt sometimes the CCP leaders, when controlled by the evil specter behind them, cannot help themselves from doing evil or mad things. I think we have already seen enough examples of this.
Therefore, instead of trying to figure out what is in the CCP’s mind, we should first see through its evil nature, then accept the fact that it can not be changed for better, and then act proactively to stop it from doing more evil, and to defeat and remove it from this planet of ours.
If we don’t, if we let the CCP get away with creating such a tremendous catastrophe for mankind, what else will the CCP not do? If we allow the CCP to kill Hong Kong’s freedom, its next target will be Taiwan and the world.
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5/26/2020
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