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Re:Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking ... by NotSammyHagar on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:44PM (#22585029)
China imprisons people who criticized the covid19 effort, they arrested doctors. Did you know that docs or researchers put the covid19 sequence on the web (it was used by the seattle flu study to identify cv here), then arrested them.

The us doesn't do that kind of thing (trump would no doubt like to do that, with his talk of making cv numbers an official secret). China was very effective stopping the virus apparently, after screwing it up at the start. They just kidnapped a critical billionaire.

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Re:Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking ... by FooBarWidget on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:26PM (#22585950)
That 'whistleblower doctor' was reprimanded, not arrested. The Chinese supreme court later judged in his favor, saying that the police shouldn't have reprimanded him. Even CGTN, a state media, admitted that the treatment of the doctor was wrong.
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