"China's Chernobyl"?

Coronavirus: Death of Dr. Li Wenliang Rocks China

[T]he disease ravaging the country could be, as is now said, China's "Chernobyl," the cover up of a disaster eventually leading to the downfall

Alternate title "It isn't the fuck up, it's the cover up."

"We want freedom of speech." Not something the Chinese government wants to hear from the people. I would argue the people are not so much losing their fear of the government, they are more afraid of the disease and the government's incompetence to handle the outbreak without getting them killed in the process. People already only have one or two kids. They don't need a plague to end a generation of the entire populous. Remember, people who are parent's today do not have siblings to take up the slack. They do not have cousins or even aunts and uncles to take up the slack of a dead child. That statement sounds very harsh, but it is what many people are staring down in China right now.