Chinese pay tribute to whistleblower corona outbreak | Abroad

Li’s death in February last year plunged many Chinese into mourning. There was also a lot of anger towards the government for not having tackled the corona outbreak decisively enough. There was also a call for reforms.

Since then, the Chinese government has been doing everything it can to create the image that the corona outbreak has responded efficiently. Critical statements by Chinese on the internet are extensively censored.

However, on Li’s personal page on Weibo, the Chinese variant of Twitter, the Chinese freely share their trauma from the outbreak in the metropolis of Wuhan and the subsequent lockdown. “Doctor Li, the weather is beautiful today where I live … everyone around me is doing their best in life, everything is going well, Happy Chinese New Year,” wrote a visitor in response to Li’s very last post.

In Wuhan, few signs of mourning or commemoration can be seen in public as yet. At the hospital where the 24-year-old ophthalmologist first warned colleagues, almost nothing pointed to the first anniversary of Li’s death, a great contrast to the sea of ​​flowers a year ago.

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