Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

In LA Times three days ago there was an article about novelist Fang Fang who lives in Wuhan,  China.  She is described as an authentic voice of truth for Wuhan.  She is 65 years old and had gone through the Cultural Revolution and still has a big mistrust of the communist government.  I can understand the frustration of what she witnessed in the past 3 months as Wuhan was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.  I also share her anger of Mao and what the communist government did in the Cultural Revolution.  But if she is the authentic voice today as the Times state, I wonder what her voice would say if she lives in America today.

Fang said that the government was slow in reacting to the virus.  It took the government about 6 weeks to act decisively and to acknowledge the problem at hand.  What would she say about the U.S. response 2 months after China had acted and given the world the genome of the virus?

Fang said that Wuhan was not transparent with the numbers and downplayed the situation.  We have no idea what the numbers are here but we can agree that it is not a hoax nor that we have tremendous control over it.  We certainly are not going to see the virus miraculously disappear one day soon.

Fang was despondent when the dead were taken out in body bags out of hospitals and love ones had no chance to say good-bye.  In New York, Chicago and other cities, make shift morgues are preparing to bring out bodies soon that the morgues cannot hold.  Love ones are not able to say good-bye here as well.

Fang said that the government refuses to apologize for ignoring the healthcare professionals who sounded the alarm, only to be chastised.  I don't hear a certain president who had refused to listen to warnings, apologize.

Fang said that the government is now calling the healthcare professionals heroes and putting them in propaganda videos.  I am sure when we beat the virus, our healthcare professionals will be called heroes.  But a certain president will claim all the credit in propaganda videos for reelection.

Fang said the measure of a nation's civilization is not how tall its buildings are, how strong its military is, or how great is its technology.  Rather the measure of a nation's civilization is how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable.  I can't agree more but if she said that here in the U.S., I suspect that she would be called a socialist or worse, a communist.

There are those who would say to Fang that after going through the Cultural Revolution era, she should be thankful that China is so much better today.  If this epidemic had occurred 50 years ago, millions would probably have died in China.  These people would be right.  But an efficient nation is not necessary a great nation.  Fang's writings are constantly being removed from the internet.  A great nation would not be afraid of criticism.  China has not learned this lesson yet.  There are those in our government who does not know this lesson as well.  Just like Chinese leaders who use the New China News Agency as their mouthpieces, our president uses a certain cable news channel as his mouthpiece.  He is too thin skin for criticism.