{"id":257483,"date":"2023-12-31T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=257483"},"modified":"2023-12-31T18:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:50:34","slug":"four-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/12\/31\/four-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"318\" data-attachment-id=\"257489\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/12\/31\/four-years-ago\/image-60\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-60.png?fit=479%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"479,318\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-60\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-60.png?fit=479%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-60.png?resize=479%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257489\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-60.png?w=479&amp;ssl=1 479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-60.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s four years to the day since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Li_Wenliang\">a doctor in China<\/a> privately warned colleagues about pneumonia cases related to coronavirus (which turned out to be COVID). His message was leaked, and went viral on social media, leading to his arrest by authorities for spreading fake news. A few months later he contracted COVID and died, aged 33 (via <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/111674613332588235\">Kevin Beaumont<\/a> on Mastodon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"443\" data-attachment-id=\"257482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/12\/31\/four-years-ago\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?fit=1000%2C843&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,843\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?fit=525%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?resize=525%2C443&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3b038fef5d7751a43500648199904548101.jpeg?resize=768%2C647&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s four years to the day since a doctor in China privately warned colleagues about pneumonia cases related to coronavirus (which turned out to be COVID). His message was leaked, and went viral on social media, leading to his arrest by authorities for spreading fake news. A few months later he contracted COVID and died, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/12\/31\/four-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four years ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257490,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257483\/revisions\/257490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}