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Coronavirus could be knockout blow for Hong Kong's once-thriving tourism, retail sectors

//Business is so bad that Bennell has pulled his two teenage sons out of international school to cut costs. If things don't turn around, he might be forced to leave the city that has been home since 1993.

//"This is the straw that’s going to break the camel’s back. It’s horrific," said the 46-year-old. "This is the worst I’ve ever seen it. It’s unbelievable."

//Tourist arrivals in Hong Kong in February fell to under 3,000 a day on average, from around 100,000 in January, which was already less than half the traffic from January 2019.

//more than 100 restaurants had closed.

//a dim sum restaurant business had dropped 30-50% during the protests, but the coronavirus had raised that to 70-80%.

//The Hong Kong Retail Management Association said it had entered "a super-cold winter" threatening its survival.

// a lounge survived last year with "after-protest people" turning up after police cleared the crowds from the streets.
"There is no one at all now," Hou said.

Full Article: https://bit.ly/2SMgfTO

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Fearless HuBei-Woman Roared: Support HK & Taiwan to Get Rid of Community Party PRC since Wuhan Virus is a plan!


(16-Feb) Under the high-pressure ruling by PRC Community Party (“the Party”), i.e. comprehensive surveillance and injustice legal system, most of the PRC citizens dared not to express their dissatisfaction. The Party puts human life as the lowest priority to maintain social stability even when the epidemic is out of control. It triggered the emotional breakdown of a woman from Hubei, where the virus outbreak is the most serious, roared with tears: “I fully support theindependence of Hong Kong, Taiwan & Tibet, to get rid of the devil hands from the Party. The CCP is just a corruption regime and (China is) a devil society!” Video of which was widely shared on Twitter.

Numerous criticisms for the source of Wuhan virus, some said it’s the virus leaked by National laboratory, some said the PRC citizens ate wild animals. The woman from Hubei pointed out: “the virus comes from Wuhan.. is a planned stratagem. All caused by power struggling within the Party, sacrificing the citizens, my family and parents are dying at home! No one care about our lives, the citizen lives. We cant buy drugs nor find a bed at the hospital even when we pay for that.

She continued to poke PRC citizen dare not to allege the Party: “no one can speak freely, nobody. If there is one brave enough to tell the truth, he/she will be arrested to Police Station. Being interrogated, detained and eventually sentenced to imprisonment. The Party means the laws, not the laws itself to protect people’s right. The Party can sentence a person for any period they want, and lawyers have no function in PRC. A righteous lawyer will be arrested, he cannot speak the truth (he is unable to speak), under such devil regime, we cannot speak the truth,”

The woman from Hubei sounds tragic, facing the camera: “I have to tell you all, sacrifices are inevitable in a revolution, one life? or two?... I want to, and I have to stand out. To speak for the truth, and scarifice for my family, and the freedom in the rest of my life.” She frankly expressed that she well-understood coming consequence from her speech: “I voiced out, I know it’s a risky move, I’m in danger now. But I really collapsed, I cannot accept this situation: full house in hospitals, but no one has a bed, nor medicine, all news are fake on CCTV. ALL! I can hear the yelling and roaring from all patients, I have to voice out for myself, for Wuhan citizen and for all Chinese.”

Source: Twitter, AppleDaily
https://bit.ly/39AmuQr

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Hubei Film Studio director family almost all gone


(16 Feb) Hubei Film Studio director #Chang Kai died on 14 Feb from WARS. His father passed away on 27 Jan and his mother, on 2 Feb. Chang Kai's sister and Chang Kai both passed on the 14 Feb. Currently, his wife is in intensive care. Only his son was spared as he studied abroad.

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Director Chang Kai‘s Last Words

Following the decree, on New Year's Eve, our banquet at the luxury hotel was cancelled. I was, then, in charge of cooking and enjoyed our meal with my parents and wife.

We were unaware of the incoming nightmares. On New Year's Day, my father had a fever, started coughing and had difficulty breathing. We went to multiple hospitals, requesting treatment; no beds were available to take him in. Disappointed, we went home to fend for ourselves, demonstrating filial piety before his deathbed and counting down his days. Our mother became mentally and physically exhausted. Her immune system shut down. She eventually followed our father.

Several days of tending to my parents on their deathbeds permitted the ruthless coronavirus to devour my wife's and my bodies. I went to various hospitals to beg for a bed but because of my insignificant social status, my words carried little weight. The scarcity of beds deprived my opportunity for treatment. With my dying breath, I tell my relatives, friends, and son who is currently in the UK: Throughout my life, I have fulfilled my role as a son, father, and husband as honestly as I could be! To those I love and those who love me, farewell!

Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/39ONhIG

Further reading:
Fearless HuBei-Woman Roared
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17570

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It is humanitarianism for which we rejoice

See:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17711

A cop in Yau Tong got confirmed; his family had symptoms.

While Yellow Ribbons sing and dance like Paula Tsui, Blue Ribbons freak out and ask where humanity has gone.

What goes around comes around. Today’s applause comes from yesterday’s sound of gunfire. If you did not pull the trigger, we would not have sung our festive song.

Who trashed student Chow Tsz-lok’s altar? The police.

Who poured water over the memorial candles? The police.

Who called for popping open champagne bottles to celebrate Chow’s death? The police.

Who conspired with the village gangsters in white shirts to terrorise us on the MTR? The police.

Who aimed live rounds at a student’s heart? The police.

Who stormed into a university campus to start a shooting spree? The police.

Too many times already. If equality matters and police also deserve to be treated like humans, then Yellow Ribbons have lives, too. Why were the floating corpses, one after another, never considered suspicious?

Today’s music has struck a chord in people’s hearts. Justice has not been served, as those who killed while laughing still enjoy their overtime pay, while those who risked their lives to save others are vilified as bad medics.

Yet after you fall ill, your family wants medical attention. Who diagnoses you? Who treats you? Pray tell, are there enough isolation beds like Sophia Chan claimed?

The bad medics who diagnose you have worn the same mask all day with sweat dripping underneath their protective suits.
I feel bad just from watching. I think all the gears abandoned on the streets yesterday is what causes you panic today.

We stopped believing in justice long ago. Your illness is just a coincidence but, in a world without justice, such odds are worth popping open the champagne.

If you want to talk about humanitarianism, we are your mirror.

As for heartlessness? Ours is not even near a tenth of yours.

Source: Terry Facebook
https://bit.ly/2Pfnlyg

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Coronavirus: Pregnant nurse 'propaganda' sparks backlash

//A video featuring a pregnant nurse treating patients in a hospital in the virus epicentre of Wuhan has sparked a backlash across China.

//The video by state media outlet CCTV was meant to portray nine-month pregnant Zhao Yu as a hero.

// But the video - which was meant to be a touching tribute to her self-sacrifice - touched a nerve, with many accusing the broadcaster of using her story as a form of "propaganda".

//Another video posted this week by state-owned media outlets in Gansu showed several female nurses weeping as they had their heads shaved also got netizens angry.

Full Article: BBC News, (21-Feb)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51583186
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Hubei declaration of independence on Twitter 2/2

[Tweets content]
This is an order from the Wuhan interim government: all officials from Wuhan municipality and the Hubei province should break away from the control of the Communist Party of China. They should report duty to this interim government through secret or open channels, guard their current post and responsibility, be obedient to the instructions given by the interim government and wait quietly for reorganization.

The interim government has started its operations which include organizing congress meetings, drafting the Wuhan provisional constitution and arranging suffrage participated by all Wuhan and Hubei residents who are eighteen or above. This is to establish a council elected by the people.

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Wuhan interim government: Hubei declaration of independence (draft for asking opinions)
2nd February 2020 (be called for short: the 20200202 declarations)

// Mr. Chow Sin Wong publicly admitted that regarding the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease, ”as a local government”, he could only disclose information after he got reports about it and was authorized to do so. On the 28th of January, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Xi Jin Ping, said, “I have always been directing the control and prevention work of the plague myself and deploying the work myself.”

//the original government under the single-party system absolutely wouldn’t accept these five demands, like the Hong Kong government which still refused to consider the five demands suggested by the Hong Kong citizens.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Full declaration
https://telegra.ph/Hubei-declaration-of-independence-02-22

Source: Twitter
https://bit.ly/2T9L2sG

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Map shows surge in sulphur dioxide levels in Wuhan after coronavirus outbreak? FALSE

(20 Feb) A map has been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which claim it shows elevated sulphur dioxide levels in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the novel coronavirus epidemic. The posts, published in multiple languages, claim the high levels of the gas could be evidence of mass cremation in and around the city. The claim is false; NASA, whose data was used to create the map, told AFP the imagery was created based on forecast figures of man-made sulphur dioxide emissions and volcano gas, not real-time satellite recordings.

Source: AFP Australia
https://factcheck.afp.com/map-forecast-based-past-data-not-real-time-satellite-readings

#SO2 #Wuhan #CoronavirusOutbreak
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Rebellion? Chinese Official set up Twitter account, suspected to like a post “Xi Jinping step down”

(16 Feb) PRC Foreign Ministry spokeperson Hua Chunying set up a new Twitter account on Valentine's Day (14 Feb) and an incident already happened two days later.

A netizen found that Hua Chunying actually liked a post that asked the party leader Xi Jinping to step down. A screenshot of this incident was taken and caused an uproar among Chinese netizens. All "favorite content" related to this "liked" on the existing Hua Chunying account has, however, been deleted.

Since Hua Chunying’s Twitter account was set up, 18 posts have been posted in two days. This account was newly established and its officiality was reported by PRC state media Global Times. The official account from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also forwarded the news so it is definitely not a fake account.

Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/2w4m468

A netizen did a clip recording showing that Hua liked a tweet which asked President Xi Jinping to step down.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1228909171875205120

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It was, unfortunately, to watch TVB for 5 minutes. The content was about the good deeds of Wuhan pneumonia. It was not surprising to tie in with the rhythm of CCP, but the melodrama part was difficult to understand. One part it mentioned a Hongkonger in Wuhan was infected Wuhan pneumonia, but there was no hospital bed. However, later some people concerned has involved in this matter and addressed that the patient was a Hongkonger and so a hospital bed must be allocated. This Hongkonger appreciated that. If it was real, given that he didn’t follow the procedure and received special treatment relying on guanxi or rank, was it really a touching good deed? Is that no one feels strange to propagandize this?

Image: Tao Comic
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/37Wi30T

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Pakistan provides 315,000 effective tablets overnight to treat COVID-19 in China

(22 Feb) Chloroquine phosphate is found to be able to treat COVID-19 in mainland China, however such production was suspended in China for 20 years.

On 5 February, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited, GPHL, first purchased 15,000 tablets of chloroquine phosphate in Pakistan through various channels, and then purchased another 200,000 tablets. The drugs arrived in Guangzhou at 7:00 p.m. on 8 February.

Bayer China, a medical care and healthcare company in China, had also made an emergency deployment to purchase chloroquine phosphate tablets in Pakistan at the beginning of February and the batch of medicines was completed in 24 hours, and that 200,000 of the 300,000 tablets were "sold" to Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited (GPHL) at zero renminbi.

It took less than 4 days from the purchased medicines in Pakistan to arriving in Guangzhou. It is not easy for Pakistan to urgently collect, transport and cooperate to undertake the fastest international rescue for dispensing the effective drugs to treat COVID-19, as transport infrastructure in Pakistan is not well developed and currently it is suffering from severe locust plague.

Full Article:
http://en.ce.cn/main/latest/202002/22/t20200222_34330227.shtml

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