Mourning # 3
Uncle Joe will be leading
us in prayer
for the last year no one
has been there.
Now we so need to cry
for all who have died
because even in the land of hate
we care.
---- Li Wenliang, on December 30, 2019
told his friends by chat that seven patients
in his hospital had a SARS-like disease
all came from a local seafood market
within hours his text message had
been disseminated and he realized
he would probably be penalized
for giving the warning in Wuhan
the authorities were outraged
Li was questioned, he was forced
to confess, he was already coughing
he had a fever, he checked into a motel
to protect his family, he had to return
to work but was soon hospitalized
by mid-January there were hundreds
the rumormonger, Doctor Li Wenliang,
aged 33, died on February 7, 2020
of the novel coronavirus known as
COVID-19. He leaves a wife, Fu Xuejie
and 2 small sons, one of whom was
born to his widow in June 2020.
