Thread by @WilliamYang120

I've been spending the whole day talking to sources in #Wuhan and the more I learned about how the #CCP has been handling the public health crisis, the angrier and irritated I get. Instead of addressing the emerging cases right away, they repeatedly downplayed the ...

... severity of #WuhanCoronavirus, making citizens think it's just another virus that won't affect them too much. Only when the virus started to spread beyond their expectation, did they come out to reveal the true extent of the virus, and now leaving the whole...

... city, province, country and the world to cope with the expanding crisis. Those who "praised" #China for behaving more transparent than in 2002 should know that #Beijing has known about the virus for weeks before they finally revealed it to the world.

All local sources that I've talked to agree that the decision to enforce a "lockdown" on Wuhan and neighboring cities was merely a cosmetic act that can't reduce the damages that #WuhanCoronavirus and #Beijing's incapability have done.

In Chinese we call such behavior "亡羊補牢" and it is the exact expression that all of my sources used to describe the government's vicious decision-making deliberation. The goat is already killed by the wolf and #Beijing finally comes to "fix" the broken cage.

#WuhanCoronavirus has been spreading around for weeks and the #CCP finally decided that it is spinning out of its hand, so it decides to reveal the whole picture of this deadly virus. Surprise!!