Illustration: Reports have emerged of multiple people in Nanjing contracting influenza A ("H1N1") and subsequently experiencing paralysis, drawing widespread attention. (Screenshot from video compilation)
[People News] Traditional Chinese Lunar New Year is a time for families to honor the heavens, worship ancestors, and prepare festive goods, expressing gratitude for the year's blessings and hope for the next. Yet this year, mainland China is overwhelmed by sorrow and despair. Streets are desolate, rural areas are eerily quiet, and a new wave of the pandemic is spreading. Reports of sudden deaths are frequent, and medical professionals warn of an impending surge in fatalities, while the government continues to cover up the situation.
Videos show hospital corridors filled with temporary beds, and pediatric hospitals crowded with patients. Numerous netizens report clusters of infections, with both young and elderly individuals suffering from fever, fatigue, and flu-like symptoms. Citizens in Tianjin, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Liaoning, Hebei, Anhui, and other provinces have shared similar experiences of dizziness, fluctuating temperatures, runny noses, coughing, sore throats, and general weakness.
On January 24, industry insiders informed foreign media that this wave of the pandemic involves multiple viruses, including influenza A, new COVID-19 variants, and bird flu, leading to deaths. Quarantine facilities nationwide are expanding, and crematoriums are overwhelmed, with people reportedly unable to secure services even through bribes. To avoid economic instability and international scrutiny, authorities have downplayed the crisis, claiming flu positivity rates are declining across provinces.
Since mid-January, several prominent figures have died, including Tu Keguo, former director of the International Confucian Studies Institute at Shandong Academy of Social Sciences (64 years old); Quan Yuhui, a prominent young AI researcher and associate professor at South China University of Technology (39 years old); and Zhou Shaobo, chairman of Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group (in his early 50s). Official statements merely note their deaths as being from "illness" without providing details, fueling suspicions among the public that they succumbed to pandemic-related complications. Reports also surface of ordinary citizens dying within minutes to hours of infection.
Yue Hongwen, president of the Sino-American Health Association, commented that this wave of infections could involve a novel virus. Increased population movement during the New Year raises transmission risks.
Recently, China’s Centers for Disease Control issued guidelines for infectious disease control during the holiday season, emphasizing widespread COVID-19 testing and opening fever clinics.
The measures also highlight entry screening, temperature checks, and genome sequencing for travelers. Institutions like schools and nursing homes are instructed to strengthen precautions, and vaccination is recommended for high-risk groups such as the elderly and children.
The reintroduction of mandatory COVID-19 testing and fever clinics suggests authorities may be bracing for a potential loss of control over the outbreak. Notably, since loosening its stringent pandemic policies in late 2022, the government has refrained from directly addressing COVID-19 in official documents, substituting references to flu or other illnesses.
While encouraging online New Year greetings to curb transmission risks, authorities have not responded to public concerns about actual death tolls. The Civil Affairs Ministry stopped releasing funeral service data, and to this day, the government has not resumed its publication—a mere glimpse into how human lives are disregarded under this regime.
Under the CCP, traditional celebrations of renewal and hope have turned into periods of death and despair. From initial cover-ups to deliberate spread, from extreme lockdowns to sudden re-openings, from ineffective vaccines to corruption profiting off the crisis, the regime has acted as an executioner.
Netizens lament, "Spending the New Year feels like crossing a perilous threshold. As long as the CCP remains, China will perish." They hope that the new year will bring change—free from the CCP’s harm—so that by next year’s end, families can once again celebrate with joy, as described in the old verse: "Amid the sound of firecrackers, the old year departs; the spring breeze warms the air as the new year begins."
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