{"id":8725,"date":"2023-03-19T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2023-04-09T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:10:16","slug":"shanghai-covid-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=8725","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai, Covid in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2569.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8727 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2569-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>New York Times, March 17, 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/17\/health\/covid-origins-who.html?searchResultPosition=2\"><em>WHO Accuses China of Withholding Data on Covid&#8217;s Origins<\/em><\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0255.jpg\">Chinese version of this<\/a> on WeChat with my comment &#8220;\u80e1\u8a00\u4e71\u8bed &#8211; \u4e00\u76f4\u89c9\u5f97 \u6b66\u6c49\u5b9e\u9a8c\u5ba4\u7528\u8fc7\u7684\u52a8\u7269\u88ab \u975e\u6cd5\u5356\u5230\u534e\u5357\u6d77\u9c9c\u5e02\u573a\u2026\u4e0d\u4e00\u5b9a\u662f\u5b9e\u9a8c\u5458 \u800c\u662f\u5b9e\u9a8c\u5ba4\u91cc\u7684\u6742\u5de5 &#8211; \u6beb\u65e0\u6839\u636e\u7eaf\u5c5e\u5f02\u60f3\u5929\u5f00&#8221; which means: My nonsense &#8211; I always felt that the animals used in the Wuhan laboratory were illegally sold to the South China Seafood Market&#8230;not necessarily the experimenters, but the handymen in the laboratory &#8211; baseless and purely whimsical<\/p>\n<p>There is only comment, &#8220;\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\u6ca1\u4e8b\u627e\u4e8b\u5e72!&#8221; Google translates, &#8220;Americans have nothing to do!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m super surprised by the comment, given the background of the commenter. She was born, raised and worked in Shanghai. Worked as a teacher \/ professor at a well known university, does her own research of old constructions since her retirement, was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_Shanghai_COVID-19_outbreak\">in Shanghai<\/a> during its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_lockdown_in_China\">lockdown<\/a> in 2022. &#8230; And she thinks it was the ugly Americans who stirs up the covid-19 controversy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One interesting fact in the report, is the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus\">1965<\/a>-). If my memory serves me right, he initially helped China to hide the fact, then defended China&#8217;s conduct. Now he thinks otherwise. Is he qualified for the job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times, March 17, 2023, WHO Accuses China of Withholding Data on Covid&#8217;s Origins, Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=8725\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shanghai, Covid in 2023<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,51,18,85],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19-pandemic-","tag-feng-guoyin-","tag-things-chinese","tag-us-china","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}