As news of the new Corona virus began to spread, the world’s media circulated the story of a Chinese doctor named Li Wenliang, who was working in Wuhan Central Hospital, and wrote to a small group of doctors acquaintances a message warning of the spread of a new epidemic, which led to the Chinese police summoning him on January 1 of this He was forced to write a confession that he would not return to carry out illegal acts that “severely disturb the social order” of the country.
As the terrifying extent of the epidemic threat unfolded, the Chinese felt anger at the authorities' way of suppressing any news that did not suit them, even if it led to catastrophic results for the entire country. On the 7th of this month, a “hashtag” spread on the social media “Twitter” in which 670 million people participated, and many of them demanded freedom of expression, considering the deceased doctor a popular hero, something that a Western academic described as a struggle between a simple citizen and the leader of the country whose powers are not limited by anything. The news revealed that he had learned of the spread of the virus two weeks before his speech about it.
In the face of the popular hero made by the doctor's boldness and death, the authorities re-manufactured the story and spread propaganda claiming that a doctor named Zhang Jieyan, a member of the Communist Party, was the first person to report to the authorities about the virus, and the authorities honored the doctor for her attention and positive approach to the case, The lesson learned from this story, of course, does not honor the aforementioned doctor, but rather re-criminalizes the deceased doctor who spread the news to his acquaintances and did not submit a report to the authorities (in order to hide it!).
The spread of the epidemic in China, the economic superpower, caused it to become an international issue, and thus exposed many political diseases in the world. The emergence of a disease in a small country does not lead to major effects in the world, and the emergence of swine flu, for comparison, resulted in In 2009, the United States reached 1.6 million infections worldwide and led to the death of 284,500 people in 214 countries, with a death rate equivalent to 17.4 percent of the number of infections. We are currently noticing, with the global spread of Corona, the beginning of its transformation into a geo-political battle between those who stand with China and those who oppose it, and in addition to this battle, other battles are gathering, according to the political nature of each country, and the alignments within it. .
The main aspect of dealing with this epidemic focused on theories of “external” conspiracy, and the Chinese president made an achievement to be reckoned with in this regard (perhaps because he could not accuse the “external”) as he gave the epidemic a religious character (and he is the head of an extremist state in its “secular”). He described it as a "diabolical virus".
