Wuhan Lab Director Ordered Staff to Hush Up on COVID-19, Per State Department Cable

[mountaineer]

Wuhan Lab Director Ordered Staff to Hush Up on COVID-19, Per State Department Cable
By Human Events Staff  |  July 12, 2021


Wuhan Lab Director Ordered Staff to Hush Up on COVID-19, Per State Department Cable
By Human Events Staff  |  July 12, 2021

In January of 2020, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology ordered staff to “not discuss COVID-19,” according to a blog post cited in a State Department cable obtained by U.S. Right to Know.

Secrets secrets are no fun unless you share with everyone.

The cable, which states the blogger’s post “has since been blocked on social media,” adds to reports that the Chinese government ordered silence on all information pertaining to COVID-19.  ... Human Events

[PeteS in CA]

Similarly:

January 1, 2020 - Genomics company employee ordered by Hubei Provincial Health Commission official to stop testing and destroy samples; https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-of-the-coronavirus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-in-china

January 2, 2020 - Just after 8 AM China time, a senior official of Wuhan Central Hospital subjects Dr. Ai Fen to what she later describes as “an unprecedented and very severe rebuke.” The official tells her not to speak to anyone, including her husband, about the pneumonia cases; https://tinyurl.com/sggfhq8 (Chinese language)

January 3, 2020 (China) - China's National Health Commission ordered institutions not to publish any information and ordered labs to transfer samples to testing institutions (without designating an institution) or to destroy them; https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-of-the-coronavirus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-in-china

January 3, 2020 (China) - Li Wenliang detained by Wuhan police for "spreading false rumors"; https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/07/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang  Li Wenliang died of Covid-19, February 7, 2020

[mountaineer]

... and then there's this:

https://twitter.com/philllosoraptor/status/1414987214140887048