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Friday, February 21, 2020
Coronavirus Comparison
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
The Coronavirus, Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare and Subversion
Image Source: 4chan.
The novel coronavirus sheds light on activities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). There is a lot of disinformation circulating in relation to the epidemic. It is hard to know what to believe, and in a sense, all versions of reality are true: the Party's Herculean humanitarian efforts to contain the spread of the virus contrast with their authoritarianism.
The Coronavirus, Anti-CCP Criticism and Disinformation
Chinese citizens have taken to social media to complain about the CCP. They are not political actors per se; rather, they are distressed individuals. Some personal videos may be faked. Given the misery of the woman in the video below, I do not think this is a fake source. But there is no proof that this is not an actress. Other social media examples of complaining citizens are here and here.
"wake up All China Citizen !!" she said (15 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.
Violent, frightening coronavirus videos have been circulating for the past weeks. They show screaming people dragged from their homes, out of their cars and off the streets, all presumably in Wuhan. The most infamous of these shows a gang of quarantine men pulling a woman from her car and apparently having her neck snapped on camera.
Police in #Wuhan #outbreak #coronavirus (7 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.
There are even videos which seem to show armed HAZMAT-suited teams shooting citizens outright rather than taking them to quarantine, although the presentation is ambiguous and probably false (as here).
