China’s two new hospitals built in as many weeks were the official face of its fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan. As the city was locked down, authorities promised that thousands of doctors would be on hand to treat 2,600 patients on the facilities’ wards.
Timelapse videos tracked the almost incomprehensibly fast construction of the hospitals, and state media celebrated their opening in early February. The only thing missing a week later? Patients.
Four days after its opening, the larger Leishenshan hospital had only 90 patients, on wards designed for 1,600, but was reporting no spare beds, Wuhan city heath data, first reported by the Chinese magazine Caixin, showed. The other facility, Huoshenshan, had not yet filled its 1,000 beds a week after opening.
Meanwhile, the city was setting up emergency hospitals in exhibition halls and a sports stadium, and medics were still turning some ill people away. China has the world’s largest army but it has not deployed any field hospitals to Wuhan.
The gulf between the vision of vast new hospitals created and thrown into action within days and the more complicated reality on the ground is a reminder of one of the main challenges for Beijing as it struggles to contain the coronavirus: its own secretive, authoritarian system of government and its vast censorship and propaganda apparatus.
Communist party apparatus well honed to crush dissent also muffles legitimate warnings. A propaganda system designed to support the party and state cannot be relied on for accurate information. That is a problem not just for families left bereft by the coronavirus and businesses destroyed by the sudden shutdown, but for a world trying to assess Beijing’s success in controlling and containing the disease. …
Hal Jordan here, bravely employing the “Can’t someboy else do it?” method of crime fighting by having a magic statue do all the fighting for him
Truly he is the Greatest Green Lantern Of Them All
This is hilariously and bizarrely a tradition apparently. :)
The best thing about this cover is that in the first one at least, Hal is using the extremely vaguely defined powers of a Green Lantern ring to bring this statue to life…here it just seems that this statue (AND PERHAPS ALL STATUES) are naturally sentient and if you ask for their help desperately enough they will leap into heroic action :D
That statue is probably more worthy of a power ring then Hal is worthy of a statue
I mean that statue has never done any mass murders or dated a space teenager so already I trust it more than Hal <3
they must also have an unfathomable amount of willpower to be able to stand still for years without moving.
I approve of your theory that they could have moved at any time and just chose to now :D
…here it just seems that this statue (AND PERHAPS ALL STATUES) are naturally sentient and if you ask for their help desperately enough they will leap into heroic action :D
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