#Rumour
Revealing truth or Spreading Rumour?

VeryNaughtyVeryNaughtPikachu
29 Jan 11:13
Everyone, please help! My father has a fever for six days consecutively. He had a blood test in the community on 26 Jan and advised to go to the hospital. He had a CT scan in a hospital, and the result showed haziness in his lungs. It was confirmed as virus infection pneumonia for both lungs. It couldn’t be confirmed as new-branded pneumonia due to lack of reagents. He was dyspnoea on 28 Jan. A person difficulty in breathing went to three different hospitals, but he was still not hospitalised. Even he couldn’t have any test. Hospitals didn’t arrange anything. Help!

DontTalkAboutSomeBoiledEggs
29 Jan 11:28
You report your father directly online. If you report your father, it should be faster than you go to the hospital.

Huodanliker
29 Jan 11:30
You report your father and let others report as well. It may be faster.

ThatSeaOfOrangeIsBloomingForYou
29 Jan 11:21
Alas! We can understand but what solution do we have?! Previously a few Wuhan people revealed the real situation. A group of outsiders said they were spreading rumour. Hope your father’s immune system is strong enough to overcome.

Source: Weibo
#Wuhan #FreeSpeech #Coronavirus

#Rumour
One possible way the donated masks might have gone in China

Images: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16610

Picture 1
ChowChow : If you need N95 mask and can’t find that, you can let me know and I can help with your own consumption.
Person A : Miss Chow, do you sell masks?
Person A : @ChowChow How much is it?
ChowChow : 260 RMB for 10 masks including shipping cost.
Person A : Thanks. Will let you know if I need to buy.

Picture 2
ChowChow : Do I know you?
Person B : You or your family is working in government organization.
Person B : Those masks are allocated and donated by government.
ChowChow : None of your business.
Person B : You sell them
ChowChow : None of your business.
ChowChow : None of your business.
Person B : Shit! Need to dig you out.
Person B : Shameless.
Chow Chow : None of your business.

Picture 3
[image showing boxes of masks]
ChowChow : Government warehouse for donation.
Person C : Thank you!

Picture 4
White label with “Zongrun Ecological Construction Group (棕潤生態建設集團) Donation” are stuck on each of the box

Source: Wechat
Reference: https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2020_02_02_534158.shtml?s=zwyxgtjdt

#Masks #MedicalSupplies #Donation #Selfishness #WuhanCoronavirus

#Rumour

Editor’s note: Memes that resemble this screen-cap have surfaced on the internet. The authenticity of the source has not yet been independently verified.

The CCP is believed to have released these data by mistake and let the world know the truth. There may be two sets of data for the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic. One is for publication; and the other, the truth.

Updated time: 1st Feb 2020 2339
Remark: This data has been deleted

#WuhanPneumonia #ChineseDoomsdayProject #YouBurnWithUs #YourProblemIfYouDontBelieveIJustDo

[Image content]
Real time epidemic tracking
Statistics up to 2020-02-01 23:39:04
Infected cases in China 154023
Suspected cases 79808
Number of cures 269
Number of deaths 24589

Source: Internet
https://t.me/hktgb/48848

#Data

#Rumour

Baibuting Hospital Traditional Chinese Medicine Group (194)

Xinwen: Everyone please just don't go out. Now in the Gaoxiong Rd. neighbourhood five cases are confirmed. A man was hospitalized but his son didn’t got the chance. The son spits around as a revenge for the society. My wife and her colleagues witnessed it when they were on duty. Please don't go out. DON'T. 🙏🙏

Floating on a plank: (sticker, captioned 'Yes yes')

Xinwen: And don't open the door to strangers. Just now someone sent me a message saying 7-8 revengeful people were caught. They randomly knocked at the doors and spat to the face when someone opened it, trying to ruin others.

Min: I haven’t left home since 22 Jan.

Source: Wechat
#RevengeForSociety #Selfishness #CoronavirusOutbreak

#Rumour
Disclaimer: rumour means it has not been fact checked

Clarification Statement:

Masks made in the Hong Kong Correctional Services are provided for the government organization, but excluding public hospitals.

Because all public hospitals are under the management of the Hospital Authority (HA) and HA is statutory authority independently, so public hospitals are excluded in the government structure. HA only needs to report to government via the Food and Health Bureau, i.e. similar to ICAC, an independent organization

Public hospitals need to purchase surgical masks themselves for medical staff. Therefore, not enough supply of mask in public hospitals is not the business of the Hong Kong Correctional Services.

#HKCSStaffObtainMasksAtWorkBecauseOfAllotmentSystem
#BecauseTheyAreAfraidOfBeingAbused
#MysteryOfDisappearanceOfMasks
#MasksProducedByCSDWillBeSentToLogisticsOffice
#ButHowTheStockOfMasksIsUsedIDontKnow
#NeedToAskLogisticsOffice

Submission time: 2020/2/5 10:03 pm

Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/2OFnz1d

#HA #Mask #PublicHospitals #HKCSD

#Rumour

Cheng Du Vanke applied to resume operation but...

A: My friend just told me that Cheng Du Vanke has made an application with the Chengdu government to resume operation and stressed that they have prepared 20,000 face masks to ensure safety of the employees. However, the Chengdu government rejected Vanke’s application and levied their 20,000 face masks 😂 😂 😂

B: This is a sad story but I would first enjoy a good laugh.

Source: Douban, 13 Feb 2020

#Chengdu #Levy #Communism #PrivateProperty

#Rumour
Mafia state: Police allegedly feasted with mob bosses ⬇️
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17457

#Rumour
Mafia state: Hong Kong Police allegedly feasted with mob bosses

Watch video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17456

Next Magazine revealed that on #Feb7, high-level officials of the Hong Kong Police Force booked a room for a banquet in a Chinese cuisine restaurant in Whampoa, Hong Kong.

The crowd included Chief Superintendents John Tse Chun-Chung, Kwok Ka-Chuen as well as Senior Superintendent Kong Wing-Cheng of the Police Public Relations Branch. In the same evening, 3 mob bosses of the Hong Kong-based Triad group the "14K" entered the room next to the police's.

According to the report, the restaurant had only very few customers that night, as opposed to being usually crowded with bustle staff running around in normal days.

A notice which read “Durians for our guests” was stuck onto the door of one banquet room. The 14K mob boss “Peter” entered the room next door short after the police officers entered the room.

When asked about the incident, the restaurant said the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, instead of the Public Relations Branch, of the police made the booking for the banquet. The restaurant staff refused to answer any other question.

During the dinner, a staff member took a few bottles of champagne into the room, where laughter and screaming could be heard subsequently.

On a press conference, the police condemned the report, describing it as canard and chicanery. They explained the banquet was privately-held, and the officers involved need not work afterwards. They didn’t have any knowledge about the identity of other customers in the restaurant nor had any contact with them.

Source: New Magazine, Stand News

Editor’s note: In Chinese restaurants, especially in Hong Kong, owing to limited space, rooms could usually be combined if needed.

#Rumour #Panic
Online Image of Wuhan SO2 Content Went Viral; Fear Stirred Up Due to the Lack of Actual Information from China

Despite claims over the epidemic was under control, netizens discovered on Windy, a live wind map and weather forecast website, that the Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) content in Wuhan were extremely high, to over1,500 µg/m3. Some netizens even estimated that over 14,000 corpses were being burnt, as others pointed out industrial activities were kept to a minimum due to government orders.

Media sites like The Sun and Daily Mirror followed suit, suggesting that high levels of SO2 could have come from an unusual crematorium activity in the cities. However, the claims were dismissed by PRC's Ministry of Ecology and Environment and news media such as Euronews. Nonetheless, the fear and the rumour that had been stirred up reflected the lack of actual information about the epidemic situation in China.

Earlier, the Wuhan local government in China ordered all bereaved families to simplify burial processes and all funeral homes to provide 24-7 services. Online videos also showed that funeral homes were crammed with corpses to be cremated, while in the mortuary of hospitals, some same-sex corpses were even stacked in one cell.

Source: Apple Daily

#Rumour
Paper Over the Cracks: Civil servants Pushed to Buy Masks for Government

On an online platform, government staff revealed that they were pushed to buy masks for the government online. In normal cases, the Government Logistics Department is to be responsible for supporting other departments in areas of procurement and supplies. However, according to the report, other civil servants, even senior officials like Senior Engineers (SE) and Chief Engineers (CE), were drafted in to purchase masks online.

They were now assigned a target number of masks and were asked to search for sources online themselves, while transactions were restricted to be below $5000 and in accordance with standards of Correctional Services Institutes. However, the statement pointed out that under the preexisting Stores and Procurement Regulations, it will be illegal to do so as it forces staff to make repeated purchases. Despite higher officials’ best efforts to appease the staff, many public servants voiced their discontent for being forced to commit illicit acts. “You haven’t been using your brain. How come you still can’t use it now?”

#Feb14 #FailedState #IllicitActs #HKSARG

#Rumour
A video is circulated on the internet seeming to be showing surveillance on WeChat.

Source: Internet
https://t.me/zhujuan2018/18051

#WeChat #Surveillance

#NetizensVoice #Rumour

Stock Food for Another 14 days in Wuhan 1/2

Editor’s Note: There are various messages left on Weibo and Twitter saying that some people in Wuhan are running out of food at home, as they didn’t buy enough food before they were banned to leave home; there are also some photos circulated online showing the price of food via bulk purchasing was several times higher than normal. Previously Wuhan people were restricted to stay inside the city, then down to stay their residential communities, and finally further down to stay at their homes, until further 24 Feb. Now they are told to have another 14 days lock up in their homes.

(23 Feb) Many soldiers have entered Wuhan. So the siege and controls will be stepped up. Wuhan people won’t even be allowed to leave their homes. Would it be another ‘Siege of Changchun’? How many people will starve to death if they totally ban people to leave their homes for 14 days long?

Image 1
Summary: A noitce from a neighborhood committee saying that after 24 Feb 24:00, delivery and collection of items and parcels are strictly forbidden at the entrance of the community. Only bulk purchasing of certain type of basic food via neighborhood committee will be allowed as disinfection is needed. Bulk purchasing will happen once every 5 days. It also suggests residents to stock up on food at least enough for 5 days in advance.

Image 2
Netizen A: So as the admin has announced, all cars will be banned in the city from the 24 Feb. The certificate we used before is useless. We need another standardised pass.

Netizen B: I guess they are further strengthening the measures and siege.

Netizen C: Is that true?
Should we begin to buy and stock daily supplies?

Netizen D: I just bought a lot in the Taoda market.

Netizen E: Yesterday many police and army officers arrived at the Rujiakuaijie hotel in the Wulixinchuan (The new village of Wuli). There were 5 big coaches and 10 small vehicles. They all came by flight.

Source: Facebook, WeChat

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Continues

#Rumour

Stock Food for Another 14 days in Wuhan 2/2

Image 3
Last time many police officers were sent from Chongqjng to Wuhan, and now they again send another batch of police from other provinces to support City of Suizhou in Hubei. It would be normal to send medical staff, but police? What else are they planning to do?

Image 4
Netizen A: Get prepared and stock supplies. From 25 Feb to 10 Mar, nobody is allowed to leave their residence. All shops will be closed! If this works, another 15 day city siege will follow. Aiming to end the siege on around 25 Mar. This news is basically confirmed.

Netizen B: Can anyone check if it’s true?

(Attachment: Government orders 2020 number 44 pdf. )

Netizen C: This is true. The measures will be strictly enforced on 25 Feb.

Netizen D: Yeah i guess it’s another round of more stringent measures. A measure like this means that the effort we put in in the past was in vain.

Netizen E: Sigh, the supply for food will be tight again.

Image 5
Notice on making purchase from a estate committee

Summary: Due to continuous outbreak of the Coronavirus, stringent rules and limitation have been imposed on making purchases and the delivery of goods in the Neighbourhoods and estates.

Only necessary life supplies such as limited range of food, medicines, and baby supplies, are allowed to be bought and delivered into the neighbourhood. No takeaway delivery and other unnecessary items are allowed.

No delivery of any goods is allowed into to neighbourhood since 25 Feb. The notice also advise residents to stock up on food and supplies for a 15 day period.

Red text: Only bulk purchase every 7 days for the time being.
After 24 Feb 24:00, delivery and collection of items and parcels are strictly forbidden.

Source: Facebook, WeChat, Twitter
https://bit.ly/2wYXNiC

#Wuhan #14DaysLockUp #StockFood #CoronavirusOutbreak #BulkPurchase

#Rumour

Fight for queuing mask in Japan

Editor note: It is compulsory for all Japanese to learn martial arts in primary school and junior high school. Now that seems to be useful to uphold justice in some occasions.

Date: 25 Feb 2020
Location: Yokohama, Japan

Apparently, a woman cut in line when everyone was queuing for masks. A Filipino nearby tried to persuade her but to no avail. The two then started to fight. Another man came to support the one who jumped the queue. A Japanese joined in for a just cause. The whole incident involved 4 people from 3 countries. According to the local laws in Japan, all of the 4 will be handled and charged.

Sequel in Isezakich, Japan
Narrator: The first women who was beaten was a Chinese woman who jumped the queue. The one who began the fight was a Filipino. Later, a thin Chinese man tried to help the Chinese woman. The Japanese was triggered and got involved at last as well.

Source: Twitter
https://twitter.com/dabai3627/status/1232185649777655808?s=20

#MaskShortage #Queue #Japan #WithChineseCharacteristic

#Rumour
Chinese Netizens Impersonate Taiwanese to Apologize to the WHO

The screenshot shows that a Twitter user who introduced herself as "a girl from China" in her profile, represented Taiwanese to apologize to the WHO.

The WHO chief has recently offended Taiwan after he accused Taiwanese of lodging "racist critique" to him. Although WHO chief has yet disclosed any evidence, it has been reported that China's Internet army was mobilized to claim themselves "Taiwanese" and make apology to the WHO in the name of "Taiwan".

Source: Internet
#ChinesePropaganda #Fake #CCP #WHO #Taiwan

#Rumour

Messages from a Wuhan Netizen

Editor’s note: A Taiwanese netizen published a post regarding the origin of the virus on PTT. The post includes a series of screenshots which were from a person living in Wuhan.

(16 Apr) To ensure safety, I won’t use internet censorship circumvention on my computer. I can only use my phone to take pictures on the screen. The image resolution will be low for sure. I will try my best to let you read it clearly.

Around 20 Dec 2019, I read the news of suspected SARS epidemic in Wuhan through Taiwan and International media. (At that time, I didn’t know it was a SARS related virus with a higher threat) I started to be aware of this situation every day. 

On 30 and 31 Dec 2019, I knew that Dr. Li Min Liang as a representative of 8 other doctors were all arrested. The international media also reported a hospital at Hàn Kǒu Jīn Yín Tán in Hubei was overcrowded; Then, I went to buy masks.

I lived in the small community nearby Shí Pái Lǐng in Wuchang. Walk towards the south along the road around a few thousand meters is South Lake District. If you walk a few thousand meters more, you will arrive in Jiang Xia district. The laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology is located in Jin Long Main Street, Jiang Xia.

//The nearest hospital from my house is the People’s Liberation Army’s General Hospital of Central Theater Command. It is opened to the public and located around 20 minutes walk from my residence. After I bought my masks, I didn’t go straight to my house. Instead, I walked to the hospital. In these 20 minutes, there were 3 ambulances with the siren on passed by and 2 of them were labelled as “Jiang Xia First Aid Center”//

Full translation: https://telegra.ph/Messages-from-a-Wuhan-Netizen-04-27

Source: Taiwan PTT (bardah2c)
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1587020308.A.8AD.html

#Wuhan #VirusOrigin #P4Lab #Coronavirus

#Rumour

Posts on “Women around the world want to marry Chinese men” floods WeChat

(30 Apr) Following articles on “Countries aspire to return to China”, WeChat has recently been flooded with posts on “Women around the world want to marry Chinese men”. This type of post mainly uses examples of foreign women marrying Mainland Chinese men and inferring that women all over the world desire to do so. The title of these posts are all something like “I am a woman from (this country), I want to marry a Chinese man” and “Why do beauties from (this country) want to marry Chinese men?”. Reasons for wanting to marry Chinese men are praises for China, such as "China has a good environment", "high GDP per capita", and "a woman will get a house when she marries in China”.

Netizens believe that these posts are only “fantasies of Chinese men”, and some find them absurd. It has been reported that some of these "Marrying Chinese men" posts got deleted by WeChat recently because of the exaggerated and inaccurate content, but some could still be found due to the overwhelming volume of these posts.

Source: WeChat

#ChinesePropaganda #WeChat #PraiseChina

#Netizensvoice #Rumour

Xinjiang Today, Hong Kong Tomorrow

(22 May) A netizen from Guangdong shared his experience staying in Xinjiang with his female supervisor for 2 months in a factory inside an industrial complex near the airport. That factory provided supplies for local schools such as catering stationeries and uniforms, all for internal consumption. That industrial complex for Guangdong province has its hotel and restaurant which resembles a fish tank and supplies game. Below is a summary which includes the key information shared by that netizen.

Factory resembles detention camp
- Different regions and provinces of China have their own industrial complex in Xinjiang. Each complex has its own police and armoured cars and prohibits people from other regions or provinces people from entering.
- Investors don’t need to have experiences in operating factories. They only need to provide capital. The government offers unlimited workforce (meager salary, almost free), infrastructure and surveillance facilities.
- All factories are in the name of Charity; however, the government and investor share profits.
- The government trains investors on how to run their factory and controls all the infrastructure, middle management and trainer for Uyghurs in all factories.
- If factory is short of workforce, the government will catch any Uyghurs on the street and put them into factories. If the Uyghurs don’t obey, their WeChat and social credit system will be locked.
- Each industry complex has a torture room and darkroom.
- All workers are Uyghurs.

Uyghurs’ lives in factories
⁃ Uyghurs have to obey all rules set by supervisor. If they don’t come to work or get any complaints, they and their family will be sent to jail.
⁃ Uyghurs have to have lunch in group of 5-6 people with their supervisor under surveillance. Camera filming every Uyghur eating pork operates daily.
⁃ During non-office hours, trainers assigned by the government monitor and train the Uyghurs.
⁃ The Uyghurs have regular body checkups. The medical report contains all extensive details, including medical history, blood type. Their reason for this is to provide different supplements; however, the true reason could be sterilization.

Uyghurs’ life in Xinjiang
- All the Uyghurs live in rural areas as they are not allowed to live in urban areas. They usually live in house built by clay. The government may knock down their home and provide a cement home. However, such cement buildings are often unfinished and the government compels the Uyghurs to pay the loan to finish the construction.
- Han supervisors are assigned to every Uyghur family. Each family has to reserve a bedroom for its supervisor and report every week every what they do.
- If a Uyghur family has a pretty teen girl and its supervisor likes her, the supervisor will come often to sleep with the teen girl.
- The Uyghurs don’t have permission to go out, without a Han’s company in the street, Uyghurs can’t gather together in groups of more than 3 people. If a Han is around, Uyghurs are prohibited from speaking their language. If they do so carelessly, they will be caught and may “disappeared”.
- The government knocked down all Uyghurs’ graves. All worship of ancestors is forbidden.
- Uyghurs need to beat other Uyghurs to show their loyalty to the government
- There is no mobility for Uyghurs since they can’t buy a ticket or use the highways.

Han People invading Xinjiang
- The Han people came from Sichuan, and they become the master of the Uyghurs
- Only Han people have permission to do business in Xinjiang. They buy agriculture products like dates from the Uyghurs at low prices.

Source: memehongkong
https://youtu.be/ux3HmoinCp8

#Xinjiang #Uyghur #Factory #HanPeople