Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1286-W902

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1286-W902

Release Date: April 4, 2020

发布日：2020年4月4日

Topic: Thoughts on Chinese Memorial Day -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：清明节思亲 -- 魏京生

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Thoughts on Chinese Memorial Day

-- Wei Jingsheng

The Chinese Memorial Day (this weekend on April 5) is a day when Chinese people are in memorial of their deceased loved ones and visit their graves. At this time, people will grieve and miss their loved ones who have passed away. My father, my mother and my younger brother have passed away one after another. I miss the days I spent with them, including the joy, quarrels and all kinds of unforgettable memories. The people who died in this Wuhan Pneumonia Epidemic (due to the COVID-19 coronavirus) have tens of thousands of relatives. These relatives should have the same mood and nostalgia as me, with more pain and grievances than me.

Why would I say so? That is because these deaths are not what they seem on the surface, as it was just a natural cause, due to aging or an irresistible disease. This may have been the case in ancient times, when there was no knowledge about infectious disease prevention and no effective means of epidemic prevention. The relatives of the dead people at that time had no choice but to blame God for not taking care of their relatives. However, large-scale plagues in the past several hundred years have prompted mankind to quickly develop a set of more effective methods. The most important thing is to find outbreaks, and then to take corresponding preventive measures to narrow and control infectious diseases to a relatively small scale.

But what did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) do? When the virus had shown an outbreak trend, while it notified the United States and other Western countries, it concealed the truth from the Chinese, and even asked the inspection agencies to destroy the evidence and conceal the epidemic; at the same time, it also made propoganda that it was not an infectious disease and would not be transmitted from person to person. What was the CCP doing? This is murder. The use of disease to kill people is an old tradition of the CCP. Initially, it was only aimed at political enemies, but Xi Jinping expanded it against ordinary people across the country.

These experts and scholars at home and abroad who have benefited from the CCP should stop their sophistry of arguing of insufficient evidence. If human beings have to wait until the evidence is sufficient to make judgments, then they are even not as good as the rabbits. If the predictive power of human beings is so degraded to be less than that of rabbits, then it is really hard for me to make more comments. The prevention of infectious diseases depends on the ability to predict, otherwise how can it be called prevention?

Are Chinese doctors and scholars all wasted garbages? No. Many doctors and scholars, like Dr. Li Wenliang, made early judgments and predictions of the epidemic and warned everyone responsibly. But they were attacked and suppressed, and they also had to bow their heads to plead guilty, to warn others to shut up in the way of "killing the chickens to warn the monkeys". The result was just as many experts had estimated: if the early warning was given 3 weeks earlier in China, then the number of infected people can be reduced by more than 90%. Shouldn't the relatives of these more than 90% of the victims who died hold these CCP officials for the criminal responsibility of concealing and deceiving?

Chinese people and academic officials are indeed as terrified as rabbits due to Xi Jinping's high-pressure policy. Not only has no one dared to come forward to hold these guilty officials accountable, but also they were forced to shout "long live" or even assist with lies. Xi Jinping's judgment is correct: that indeed no one in China is a standing man with courage. But is it really true? It seems that there are still many people and the media making loud outcries. The media that dared to tell the truth during the epidemic is under siege by the CCP and the Internet police. Mr. Ren Zhiqiang, who directly attributed the blame to CCP Secretary-General Xi Jinping, has also been missing for a long time and is said to have been detained and interrogated with the CCP special regulations. In the near future, there will be more people in the media who will be scolded as traitors because they tell the truth.

This action shows that a new round of policy to cover up the truth and deceive people is coming onto the stage in China. What will happen next? There are foolish people who believed the CCP 's lies and have started to unblock themselves and travel and go to parties. Yet the hidden virus carriers are spreading the virus unconsciously. Scholars at home and abroad have warned that a new round of outbreaks in China is just around the corner. Who should we believe? People should seriously consider this issue. For a serious disaster, it is better to believe it than to ignore. It is better to hide like rabbits when they hear the wind is blowing and the grass is moving, rather than believe in lies and follow the likes like a fool.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-04032020164417.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2020/WeiJS200403onMemorialDay.mp3

(Written and recorded on April 3, 2020. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on April 3, 2020.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1286-W902

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1286-W902

Release Date: April 4, 2020

发布日：2020年4月4日

Topic: Thoughts on Chinese Memorial Day -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：清明节思亲 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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清明节思亲

-- 魏京生

清明节是中国人怀念亡者，祭扫坟墓的日子。每到这个时节，人们都会怀着悲痛的心情，怀念已经过世的亲人。我的父亲母亲和弟弟都已先后去世，我怀念和他们在一起的日子，欢乐、争吵和各种难以忘却的记忆。在这次武汉肺炎流行中去世的人们，有着成千上万的亲属。他们应该和我有同样的心情和怀念，并且比我有更深的痛苦和冤屈。

为什么这样说呢？因为他们的死亡并不是表面上看上去那样，似乎只不过是自然的原因，是死于年纪或不可抗拒的疾病。古代可能是这样，那时没有关于传染病防疫的知识，也缺少有效防疫的手段。那时的亲属们也只好埋怨老天爷没有照顾好他们的亲人。但是几百年来的几次大规模瘟疫，已经促使人类迅速发展出一整套比较有效的方法。其中最重要的就是发现疫情，然后可以采取相对应的预防措施，以此将传染病缩小和控制在比较小的范围。

但是中共做了什么呢？在病毒已经呈现爆发趋势的时候，在通知美国等西方国家的同时，却对中国人隐瞒，而且丧心病狂地要求检查单位销毁证据，隐瞒疫情；同时还宣传不是传染病，不会人传人。这是在干什么？这是在谋杀。利用疾病杀人是共产党的老传统了。原先还只是针对政治上的敌人，但习近平将之扩大到了对付全国老百姓。

国内外的一些得了共产党好处的专家学者，就不要再用证据不足来诡辩了。人类若一切都要等到证据充分显示再做判断，那就连兔子都不如了。人类的预测能力如果退化到连兔子都不如，可真的就不好再做评论了。而预防传染病所依靠的就是预测能力，否则怎么能叫做预防呢？

中国的医生和学者都是废物吗？不是。有很多医生和学者像李文亮医生一样，很早就对疫情做出了判断和预测，并且很负责任地向大家预警。可是他们被打击，被压制，并且还要低头认罪，杀鸡儆猴式地警告别人闭嘴。结果就像很多专家估算的那样，如果提早三个星期预警，被传染者可以减少百分之九十以上。这百分之九十以上死难者的亲属，不该去追究隐瞒和欺骗的中共官员的罪责吗？

中国的老百姓和学者官员们，确实像兔子一样被习近平的高压政策吓坏了。没有人敢出面追究责任，还要被迫高呼万岁或者帮助撒谎。习近平的判断没错，确实更无一人是男儿。真的吗？好像还是有不少人和媒体在大声疾呼。疫情期间最敢说真话的一家媒体，正在承受着中共和五毛的围剿。直接把责任归功于习大书记的任志强先生，也已经失踪很久了，据说已经被双规。接下来还会有更多媒体人，因为说真话而背上卖国贼的美名。

这种动作说明新的一轮掩盖真相骗人的政策出台了。接下来是什么情况呢？兔子一样的傻缺们已经相信了中共的谎言，开始自我解封，出动旅游聚会了。而隐藏的病毒携带者们正在不自觉地散播病毒。已经有国内外的学者警告新一轮疫情爆发指日可待，我们应该相信谁呢？人们应该认真思考这个问题。对于严重的灾难，宁可信其有，不可信其无。宁可像兔子一样只要风吹草动就躲避，不可像傻缺一样迎着谎言上。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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