RedNote Accidentally Exposes Truth About China: The Tiktok to XiaoHongShu Migration
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I never even got into TikTok, but I joined Rednote yesterday. I absolutely love the fact the proposed TikTok ban backfired so spectacularly 😂 This is a great conversation.
-This is a historical event even though I laugh a lot about what happened in Xiaohongshu. For the first time, American people and Chinese people communicate directly and are trying to understand each other.
-This incident is so strange. Suddenly, the Chinese doesn’t need to explain so painstakingly that they are being framed…. the Americans and their western cousins flocked willingly to a Chinese app to find out more about the truth of China. ..
-Nothing makes me happier than watching the propaganda scales fall off of people’s eyes. The best thing I saw was one Chinese man on RedNote saying that he thought the cost of medical care that he had heard about in the US was just propaganda from his own government to make Chinese people think it’s horrible here. He was stunned to find out it was actually the truth!
-"we saw this hilarious grilling in the US Congress- "
As a US citizen it wasn't hilarious, it was so embarrassing. The US government is so out of touch.
-My mind is blown away from what I am learning in less than 12 hours on RN. When the news posts about China, all we were shown was the Chinese army marching. I am following you on both Red Note and here. Thank you for posting.
-It is the trend towards unity in the whole world.
The 2019 Military World Games and Sick Athletes
The 7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games (MWGs) opened in Wuhan on October 18, 2019. The games are similar to the Olympic games but consist of military athletes with some added military disciplines. The MWGs in Wuhan drew 9,308 athletes, representing 109 countries, to compete in 329 events across 27 sports. Twenty-five countries sent delegations of more than 100 athletes, including Russia, Brazil, France, Germany, and Poland.
The PRC government recruited 236,000 volunteers for the games, which required 90 hotels, three railroad stations, and more than 2,000 drivers. An archived version of the competition’s website from October 20, 2019, lists the more than thirty venues that hosted events for the MWGs across Wuhan and the broader Hubei province. The live website is no longer accessible – it is unclear why it was removed.
During the games, many of the international athletes became sick with what now appear to be symptoms of COVID-19. In one interview, an athlete from Luxembourg described Wuhan as a “ghost town,” and recalls having his temperature taken upon arriving at the city’s airport. In an interview with The Financial Post, a Canadian newspaper, one member of the Canadian Armed Forces who participated in the games said (emphasis added):
[I got] very sick 12 days after we arrived, with fever, chills, vomiting, insomnia.... On our flight to come home, 60 Canadian athletes on the flight were put in isolation [at the back of the plane] for the 12-hour flight. We were sick with symptoms ranging from coughs to diarrhea and in between. - Canadian Athlete
The service member also revealed his family members became ill as his symptoms increased, a development that is consistent with both human-to- human transmission of a viral infection and COVID-19. Similar claims about COVID-19 like symptoms have been made by athletes from Germany, France, Italy, and Sweden.
By cross referencing the listed MWG venues with publicly available mapping data, it is possible to visualize the venues (in black) in relation to the WIV Headquarters (in red) and the above- mentioned hospitals (in blue). The green figures represent athletes who have publicly expressed their belief they contracted COVID-19 while in Wuhan and are mapped at the venues which hosted the events in which they competed. Some of these athletes resided in the military athletes’ village. This was a city of 15 million people that was in lockdown. It was strange, but we were told this was to make it easy for the Games’ participants to get around.
At least four countries who sent delegations to the MWGs have now confirmed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 cases within their borders in November and December 2019, before the news of an outbreak first became public.
1. Italy. In February 2021, researchers from Italy published a research letter in the CDC’s
Emerging Infectious Diseases journal describing a case involving a 4-year-old boy from Milan. A retrospective analysis of samples taken in 2019 identified the boy, who developed a cough on November 21, 2019, as having been infected with SARS-CoV-2 three months before Italy’s first reported case. The boy had no reported travel history.
2. Brazil. A March 2021 article by researchers in Brazil examined wastewater samples from
October to December 2019. Previous studies have confirmed that humans infected with the virus can experience prolonged viral shedding via their gastrointestinal tract. A sample from November 27th tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, confirming the virus was circulating in Santa Catarina, Brazil months before January 21, 2020, when the first case in the Americas was reported.
3. Sweden. Sweden’s Public Health Agency said it is likely that individuals in the country were infected with SARS-CoV-2 as early as November 2019.
4. France. Researchers in France also re-tested samples from late 2019 in an effort to identify early COVID-19 cases. They identified a 42-year-old male who presented to the emergency room on December 27th with an influenza-like illness. He had no connection to the PRC and no recent travel history. Upon re-testing, the patient’s samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2. It should be noted that one of his children also had similar symptoms before the man became sick, suggesting that the first case in France was likely earlier than December 27th.
As stated above, athletes from France, Italy, and Sweden also complained of illnesses with symptoms similar to COVID-19 while at the MWGs in Wuhan. The presence of SARS-CoV-2 in four countries, on two separate continents, suggests a common source. If, as presumed, SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans in Wuhan before spreading to the rest of the world, the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan appears to be a key vector in the global spread – it other words, potentially one of the first “super spreader” events.
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如今的新明日报的拥有者是singapore Press Holding Media Trust。
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