Great service to world at large done by Chinese whistle blowers on Coronavirus 2019 Wuhan outbreak, who sadly have disappeared now
I debated with myself quite a bit about whether I should put up this post.
I decided to go ahead with putting up this post. Why? Well, besides the medical doctor and martyr Li Wenliang, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang, who first shared the info. about a possible new and dangerous virus to friends privately but who shared it publicly, two Chinese social media whistle blowers - Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin - have done a great service to the world at large by informing the world about the severity of the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus 2019) epidemic in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. This has led the rest of the world to get a better idea of the crisis there and to try to prevent or reduce its spread in other countries. Note that India is a neighbouring country to China, and that Kerala state of India had 3 cases of COVID-19 (2 of which have recovered and 1 is under treatment) among students of Kerala who were studying in Wuhan.
I have done some whistle-blowing in the past and know how lonely that task is, how much courage it needs, how one earns many powerful enemies due to whistle-blowing, and also, seeking your kind indulgence for blowing my own bugle, how vital that task is to inform the larger community about the truth of what happened and what is happening, which enables them to get a much better understanding of complex problems in the community.
As I am among many who have benefited from these two Chinese whistle-blowers' work, I felt that the least I could do, in return for their service, is to post about them.
Here are a few videos which tell us about them and their work:
1) Citizen Journalist Chen Qiushi Goes Missing Covering Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4ddPVcq4Q, 2 min. 15 secs, published by QuickTake by Bloomberg on 11th Feb. 2020.
2) Fang Bin took some video of a hospital in Wuhan and was caught by the police, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCEFzL66oKg, 7 min. 14 secs, published by Truth Wins on 1st Feb. 2020.
3) Wuhan’s Fang Bin (shortly after his first arrest for leaking Coronavirus vid), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBZw7WrRhVY, 4 min. 17 secs. published by Tech Noir on 8th Feb. 2020.
4) Fang Bin is second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo, 3 min. 23 secs, published by South China Morning Post on 14th Feb. 2020.
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Here's a New York Times article on their work and disappearance: They Documented the Coronavirus Crisis in Wuhan. Then They Vanished., 'Two video bloggers whose dispatches from the heart of the outbreak showed fear, grief and dissatisfaction with the government have gone silent.', https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/business/wuhan-coronavirus-journalists.html, 14th Feb. 2020.
I decided to go ahead with putting up this post. Why? Well, besides the medical doctor and martyr Li Wenliang, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang, who first shared the info. about a possible new and dangerous virus to friends privately but who shared it publicly, two Chinese social media whistle blowers - Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin - have done a great service to the world at large by informing the world about the severity of the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus 2019) epidemic in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. This has led the rest of the world to get a better idea of the crisis there and to try to prevent or reduce its spread in other countries. Note that India is a neighbouring country to China, and that Kerala state of India had 3 cases of COVID-19 (2 of which have recovered and 1 is under treatment) among students of Kerala who were studying in Wuhan.
I have done some whistle-blowing in the past and know how lonely that task is, how much courage it needs, how one earns many powerful enemies due to whistle-blowing, and also, seeking your kind indulgence for blowing my own bugle, how vital that task is to inform the larger community about the truth of what happened and what is happening, which enables them to get a much better understanding of complex problems in the community.
As I am among many who have benefited from these two Chinese whistle-blowers' work, I felt that the least I could do, in return for their service, is to post about them.
Here are a few videos which tell us about them and their work:
1) Citizen Journalist Chen Qiushi Goes Missing Covering Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4ddPVcq4Q, 2 min. 15 secs, published by QuickTake by Bloomberg on 11th Feb. 2020.
2) Fang Bin took some video of a hospital in Wuhan and was caught by the police, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCEFzL66oKg, 7 min. 14 secs, published by Truth Wins on 1st Feb. 2020.
3) Wuhan’s Fang Bin (shortly after his first arrest for leaking Coronavirus vid), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBZw7WrRhVY, 4 min. 17 secs. published by Tech Noir on 8th Feb. 2020.
4) Fang Bin is second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo, 3 min. 23 secs, published by South China Morning Post on 14th Feb. 2020.
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Here's a New York Times article on their work and disappearance: They Documented the Coronavirus Crisis in Wuhan. Then They Vanished., 'Two video bloggers whose dispatches from the heart of the outbreak showed fear, grief and dissatisfaction with the government have gone silent.', https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/business/wuhan-coronavirus-journalists.html, 14th Feb. 2020.
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