From moulin to the world. 19 has gone blue. Killing tens of thousands. And terrifying millions. Are having. Trouble finding the signal leader. Meanwhile another virus has emerged the symptoms suppression misinformation and panic. China was an open transparent democratic nation. Then this whole thing might not have happened. One of many student besta gates to fight the truth in a time of contagious. Young has a lot of time to think. Hes a resident of who has the chinese city at the center of the covert 19 outbreak. Quarantined in a School Dormitory hes unable to interact with Anyone Around him. When he speaks to us its via social. His only contact with the outside world. In the cold winter months last december. As a kitchen hat. Like the rest of he had no idea that a deadly virus had invaded his city. Ashley. Eckstein. The market closure was the 1st clue that something was amiss not that it will hands residents were officially told anything. But doctors a blue hand Central Hospital started to share their concerns about a virus similar to the deadly sols or severe acute respiratory syndrome. One of them was dr levy. There are 7 confirmed cases of sars safe with. There being isolated in all Hospitals Emergency Department it cold war hospital to strict. Be careful our chat group might be shut down. With the latest news its because they are current on wireless infections but exact virus is still being identified. Dont circulate the information outside of this group tell your family and loved ones to take caution. The authorities were not happy on january the 3rd lee was summoned to hans Public Security bureau and forced to confess to making false statements but by then it was too late to. Talk to one liangs warning had begun to spread just like the virus. Losing feet as the month progressed so did the number of cases. Then on the 20th of january the government finally confirmed what many suspected the sun people were spreading the disease. The news couldnt have come at a worse time. I. Shine it was preparing to mock the Lunar New Year holiday its biggest festival of the year. Just 3 days later. A city of 11000000 people was locked out. It was a dramatic move. So you think should have been shut down sooner. Than. 1000000 they were even who hands may judging wang admitted that the news about the virus should have been released earlier but he says his hands were tied. To this. So it was a. Family it was already too late his mother was feeling tired she had a fever and was coughing. Churchgoing. The doctors advise young took quarantine his family. Was. Desperate to protect his loved ones john had to improvise turning his small vine into a makeshift isolation zone for his mother. In who hands freezing winter it was not an easy decision. His mother eventually recovered but then his father fell ill and john was taken into quarantine by the local authorities. In another part of the city. Looping is also in quarantine since so father was diagnosed with cope at 19 shes been isolated at home with her mother. Just. Told me on the show. Was. And i learned early says about. The number of the you know theres a. Zoo has regular check ups with doctors via an Online System well mentioned that all mentions in the. Oil. Example you know joe you know how to i wont. Judge you all interventions holly holly a host of. Zoo is grateful for the Free Health Care and quarantine facilities the governments providing but she believes her father got sick because the media was slow to report the disease is infectious nature. In the now. We sure hope you dont surely surely hope she threw you. So far even such mild criticism is rare in todays china where the government has always couldnt trump the message and state media provides positive spin. Like that this will hand quarantine center. Where favorites you dont. Try you for. A. Pressure try that for a 4 year 500 you go crazy and our lives here. Or there when talk about watching all this unfold in the mines is a journalist from who had. He spoke to us on the condition that we hide his identity for fear of reprisal will call him. And we be she waved to me and the coverage has to be positive. Anything that is demoralizing is not allowed to be reported. In regards to the topics we cant touch basically there are a lot of them. Every day when we receive our of the on what topics we cant report on the phone banking there are also restrictions from the local authorities us and basically its hard to interview the doctors and government servants. John 1st heard about the virus from friends who are doctors she dont even go to or in the case one of them told me the situation in this hospital is very green. He was complaining to me because some doctors were wearing protective suits and 95 face masks to protect themselves from the infection. But the hospital did not allow it in were seeing they were creating panic and causing the patients to be a free. Junk says he realised what was happening in his home city was a symptom of a much bigger problem. In the past few years you can see that the media in china has been withering or so their city until it was 10 years ago they had a strong ability to organize to report and plan in the media have the power to do something bleaters it in abuses as time goes by you realize that if the media had done more investigation then research the epidemic wouldnt be so serious now. That you do it. Yes but the government has been pushing a different message a little bit like this report quoting the who hand Party Committee secretary. Dont show you a giant gun in joe you. Lucian is a senior presenter on c g t n Chinese State televisions International Network of course some media have called chinas fs draconian heavy handed autocratic but we call them effective. In a candid interview with one o one east she concedes Chinese Media has made mistakes in its coverage of the virus if the media to do it must do a better job they should learn the lesson because at the end of the day is ordinary peoples lives that were harmed that were at stake but the top leaders in china will not be held to account with the i dont know if they do something wrong i mean the the general the general public are watching all the time the thing is not to bring down the system but to bring it back to make it better so because we are all in it everybody is at stake president xi jinping made very clear that the priority of chinas media was to reflect the thinking of the communist party we can all pitch the Chinese Communist party against the Chinese People or vice versa it doesnt work like this in china i see my job is to work for the overall benefits of the chinese population. From the start the governments position has been clear to stop and smear those who challenge the official version of events. People like fung been a middle aged close retailer in will have dug a hole was. He decided to investigate and film what state t. V. Wasnt showing. Functoid the city visiting different hospitals showing the chaotic reality that overworked doctors and nurses. And the desperation of patients and their families trying to get treatment any way anywhere. And the pain of losing loved ones when it doesnt matter in the woods or it will fully with you. Who are you know very good you know with her you know. Why go to the other one when you put on a video that were going to. Go through to the. To be able to walk. Funkin was shaken by what he saw some of the more. Hard to want to go. With the wind in the. Corner with. So that he. Or she. Does it to you and youll do it within the hour. To salute all of the strict online censorship ensured that funks social media account was quickly deleted. His answer within 100 feet and i was you know then this all or 2 of the longer youre in charge of the moment over time and there were those of the its well i was me and tom and oh through a hole or youre kind youre wishing you know we do believe that and talk about how you got your heart youre good and what all the fog of war tartlet body organize all those years or the your degree with doesnt work theres a war they get you where you allow your 10000 with a week on the job while it can is a good deal. When some of you went you know he was your mother what do you want a wind here on news i mean he said you know how do you know you know how you got a man came for you did you not think i didnt love him what do you like theres another night that. You picked. Up. His last video of february the 8 was just 12 seconds long it featured a scroll of paper with the words to funkytown why dont you me he hasnt been seen since. You always had your fun been wasnt the only one trying to reveal what was going on. Lawyer chen true she arrived in wu han on the last train before the city was shut down. What are your 4 what were the 33 girls who mean to you what its in coal. Is a fun say to you go to north. Beach or you eat out why you need a season 23. Or change shine a light on the governments quarantine measures own to the point im going to soon i mean here you can you put it worship people should be run through the caribbean but like you even go to your bio father you go good to you doesnt mean. You going to get it. From able to get. Through you are going to be there crews are going to work your feelings out on people jockeys you know gaia you are going at each other in those are young so sure that you will do only on the wrong path. But while chen turned his camera on wu han attention was also turning to him. When he got some drug education sums or c. L g ganglia so we should put us under a little sure what that was how decision tree ultimately should trouble your heart theres some values it didnt tell you to always eat on the all you and your door was shut. Which. Should draw more than fire you question your leader. Then he to disappear. No ones heard from him since. In a tragic development the original whistleblower dr leigh one young contracted the virus and died chinese social media erupted with anger and sorrow prompting worldwide grief to shoot. The chutes. Who should. Treat our illegal johns. The fuck outta you which. Seized the charity hundreds of academics and everyday citizens signed a petition calling for a national day of free speech among the signatories was beijing lawyer lynn she lay who recorded this message for us. Who we knew is true that you could. Should i do her. Off. To. Your. Losses and back. Here with. Us. I say have. A 1000 kilometers from who hand hong kong has been closely watching whats happening on the mainland. Rarely is hong kong seem so quiet and placid easy to forget this same city has recently been the setting for up to violent protests calling for more democratic reform those protests have led to a growing anti mainland sentiment and this far as is deepening that sentiment. The fact is if you think about it if china was an open transparent democratic nation. Then this whole thing might not happen in the 1st place. In 2003 kong was hit by the coronavirus solace which also originated on the mainland and killed nearly 800 people worldwide. Back to dr warm medical school today hes a frontline medic treating patients infected with 19. We split the department into what we call a dirty team in clean team me the dirty 2. Dirty we are we are responsible for taking care of the patients to this virus or suspected to have the virus the idea is to contain the risk within more part of the department. He says you 1st heard about 19 in december. So when we start hearing about. Signs of this disease being. Out of control. The number of patients are climbing. People are die. Apparently the autoroute teasing Mainland China to cover things are. Very much worried alfreds been living in a hotel close to the hospital he cant risk going home because i am not only trying to protect my patients but also trying to protect my family and i have a wife who is pregnant the last thing i want is to give her the virus so i dont go home but we see each other every now and then. Once a week or something so we still have dinner. Together sometimes in a park or. Apart from each other yeah we stay away from each other 3 to 4 meters so that must be so hard not to reach out and touch your herd yeah it is it is. For alfred its a small price to pay compared to the pressures the doctors face on the mainland these people. Who have been trying their very best to speak of the truth and gave their lives doing it. I mean they are heroes theyre heroes. They will not be forgotten very similarly i dont think the people of china will forget the crime. That has been committed the crimes the crime because of the crime it is a crime. Dont think so i mean i mean to tell all these lies. And some of these whistleblower arresting them. And then cause all these thousands of. Says the man demonstrates a staggering new career a virus based on flight data and its completely wrong its completely wrong professor moto is trying to contain another virus thats been spreading and mutating misinformation there is a lot. Misinformation going on right now in relation to this kind of iris he heads the Fact Checking team of Hong Kong University since the outbreak of covert 19 theyve been trying to work out whats fake and whats real you find yourself shouting at the computer screen sometimes when you see this all the time hold it. Dont report this its not true you know why did you say that you know what evidence do you have. He says the online rumors and lies about the virus are compounding the panic and fear its a real eco system if you map how information spreads on the internet you could actually see the organism how organically it spreads how it mutates and the danger of spreading false information is that it can cost lives there are lots of medical information obviously drinking warm water was. Roasted garlic will prevent you from getting the virus there are all sorts of misinformation going on right now. This chart is a comparison between the common cold 19 so for example runny nose is a symptom of a common call but not. So the claim is that if you have run in those dont worry you dont have the virus thats not scientifically true at all so we did that and the problem is that kind of content is often picked up by traditional media outlets. Spreading misinformation is not only easy but lucrative. There are a lot of financial incentives for. What we call buy that basically they want to have a sensational content that people click all the time because that brings in revenues for them so they charge 100. 00 stories a day so its really hard to win this fight. Me a video purportedly showing family members who died from the virus in video seem to be authentic. We sort of block the faces because if thats true that person this happened in december but they had nothing to do with corn of my wrist in fact his team established the family died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning but by then the video had been viewed more than 100000 times online before it was finally taken down if you live in the country where press freedom is limited if the information is controlled the censored people dont know what to trust. As every country around the world struggles to respond to the pandemic china claims its winning the war on covert 90. Now its offering expertise on how to defeat the virus but one important lesson comes not from chinas successes but from its failure. That trust and truth are powerful allies in the fight against this invisible enemy. Man mine is on trial from rape to genocide the government stands accused of committing atrocities against the range of people one on one east investigates on aljazeera. Every generation has higher purpose. Hours. 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