DR LI WENILANG: THE FACE OF CORONAVIRUS, WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

ICHEOKU says what will it take for the Communist Party of China's leadership to admit that they are losing the war on Coronavirus and accept much needed help from countries with proven credentials in dealing with such killer biological outbreaks. Even Nigeria once successfully stopped Ebola virus from wrecking havoc in the most populous West African country. President Donald John Trump has successively offered the Chinese authorities help with American expertise, including  virus hunters as well as doctors and medications, but pride of a nation has made President Xi Jinping unable to accept it. 

ICHEOKU says what will it take or is President Xi Jinping waiting until thousands of his Chinese people perish and hundreds of thousands of then get infected and their economy taken down before belatedly accepting the help. Over 800 people have since succumbed to the virus attack, otherwise avoidable deaths which would have been prevented had the offered help been accepted. Nearly 40,000 people have now been infected by the virus and the Chinese economy is under heavy stress as a result of frightened citizens who are reluctant to return to work following the Chinese New Year, afraid of being infected. Many countries have placed a near embargo on travels between China and so many airlines have since pulled out of their Chinese routes. What is Chinese authorities waiting for to accept help, as their pride is beginning to turn into foolishness.

ICHEOKU says by continuing to refuse the offered help and watching her citizens perish, the Chinese authorities has proved that the welfare of their citizens is not their priority and that their over population can absorb thousands of Chinese dead, without making any impact; but should this be their only consideration. How about the message which they are sending to the rest of the world, that they don't care about their citizens and can afford to lose thousands of them to the Coronavirus without any contrition or recompense. Hundreds of people are dying and the only thing they worry about is the image which accepting help would create of them. ICHEOKU says it is not weakness to admit one's shortfall and accept help where it would prevent death and other serious threat to the one's general welfare and wellbeing. 

ICHEOKU says calls on the authorities in Beijing to immediately take all and every help they can get and resolve the killer Coronavirus now. The more it lingers on, the more the entire world is exposed to risk of contamination and infection. People are scared and many people have stopped entering Chinese restaurants or eating Chinese food, afraid that such could be vectors of Coronavirus. But a very secretive authoritarian Chinese Communist Party is not doing all that is possible to contain the viral attack. A matter they would have nipped in the bud if only they had not branded Dr Li Wenilang a rumor monger when he first alerted of the affliction. They would have followed it up with all they had and may be the Coronavirus would have since been contained by now. But no, they muscled him into signing a confession that he misspoke, terrorized his family into silence and now this is the result, a near pandemic global spread of the virus. May God help us all.