Changan Classroom

As a citizen, I want to ask 10 questions to the National Health Commission of the PRC (NHC)

1. Is NHC’s main responsibility only about collecting the Covid-19 data? How much promotion did NHC do for Covid-19 treatment? Did NHC release the Omicron fatality rate? When would NHC address the excessive measurement in local government control policies? Does NHK deem month-long lockdown suitable for Xijang and Tibet?

2. Is there any flu virus ever eradicated by humanity? Trying to eradicate the Covid-19 virus is so vain! How much will we cost to zero out Omicron? It is just pointless to perform mass nucleic acid testing periodically, hoping to stop the spread of highly infectious viruses!

Lian Qingchuan

26/12/2022

This is an article questioning the current epidemic situation and policy. But before I begin, I have to give a lengthy preamble so that my position is perfectly clear.

The first of all: in August 2021, I wrote an article arguing that we should begin to consider herd immunity. At that time the virus had mutated into the Delta strain and had not yet become Omicron. Yet the UK and the US had already fully reopened, and their herd immunity policies were taking effect.

Ren Zhiqiang

12/03/2020

On February 18 I put down my pen on “Memory and Reflection,” and I meant to stop there, especially since I was unwilling to touch the scar of February 19 again.

Four years ago, on February 19, when I reposted a Weibo photo of “CCTV is surnamed Party,” I added this comment: “When all the media have a surname, and do not represent the interests of the people, the people are abandoned into a forgotten corner.” This set off a “ten-day Cultural Revolution”–style mass denunciation across the entire internet, and a Party disciplinary punishment of one year of probation within the Party! So every year on February 19 I resolutely put down the pen in my hand, to guard that day.