In today’s America, if you become a problem for a Lefty, you are just cancelled. You no longer exist. When you disappear, you don’t even need a burial. Nobody talks about you. Nobody writes about you. The departed does not deliver a tearful goodbye and nobody bids them a tearful farewell.
This is exactly how it works in China.
Like Winston Smith’s co-worker Syme in “1984”, he simply ceased to exist. He had never existed. Only a foolish person would comment on his absence the first day. The next day he was forgotten by all.