Posted on 09/18/2022 12:28:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China's Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID reasons, local media reported on Sunday.
The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning on a highway in Sandu county, which lies around 170 km (105 miles) southeast of the provincial capital, Guiyang, police said.
The bus, which overturned on a section of a highway that leads from Guiyang to Libo, a county just south of Sandu, was carrying 47 people...
Sunday afternoon on Chinese social media generated a renewed outpouring of anger at China's strict COVID policies and the initial lack of transparency from the authorities.
The bus crash quickly became the top trending topic on China's Twitter-like Weibo on Sunday afternoon before, shortly after, it disappeared from the top 50 trending topics.
At least some widely shared and angry blogs on the topic were deleted from WeChat soon after publication, but some reports and comments initially remained, though many of the more critical ones were removed from Weibo.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Another 27 deaths due to COVID!!
What’s up with all this Covid nonsense? It’s over.
Bus driver won’t be getting the bonus he was promised.
Only 27 died.
"Bus plunge stories are a nickname for a journalistic practice of reporting bus accidents in short articles that describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. The phenomenon has been noted in The New York Times, which published many bus plunge stories from the 1950s through the 1980s, with the newspaper running up to twenty such articles in 1968 alone …"
are their organs usable? sarc/
I will try to remember to ping you on these types of threads.
It’s not over until Xi Jinping is re-installed as General Secretary for another six-year term. Then they’ll relax restrictions tactically, here and there, whereever those relaxations can help the regime bring in more money.
Covid or Xi Jinping ordering driver to drive off the road to kill sick people. “
You kill them, or we kill you by hanging by ‘nads til dead.”
I hope they were all wearing masks
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.