According to the news report, Captain Crozier was relieved of his duty not for writing the memo or for personally leaking the memo to the press, but for :
(1) Copying 20 to 30 people on the memo which the navy does not feel they have the right to know.
(2) Using a non secured network to send the memo, thus risking the memo from being leaked.
In a way, he is US's version of Dr Li Wenliang by taking the same approach to alert many people outside the chain of command of a potential crisis.
As reported by Tam on Post # 4024, the Chinese government has restored Dr Li's honor by naming him an official Martyr of the country. I hope the US Navy, after this Coronavirus crisis is over, will restore Captain Crozier's honor by rescinding the reprimand.
Sorry but that is just plain wrong with regards to Dr Li.
Dr Li did not try to ‘get the word out’ as the western MSM has brainwashed the world into believing. Nor did Dr Li attempt to send warning through the proper channels, because he was an eye doctor who had neither the training or all the facts.
Dr Li sent a private message with the wrong information (he said it was SARS) to a small group of his friends and specifically told them to keep the news to themselves. Any doctor who did that anywhere in the world would get hauled over the coals for serious breaches of professional and legal codes.
What Dr Li did was akin to shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre when there was a bomb. It was the wrong warning that could have made things significantly worse and needlessly cost many more lives if his gossiping had triggered a massed exodus from Wuhan on top of normal heavy holiday traffic.
Dr Zhang jixian was the one who actually first spotted and diagnosed COVID19 and immediately raised the alarm through proper channels (before Dr Li sent his private messages to his buddies).
I bet you have never even heard of her if your only source of news is the western MSM.
Guess what happened to her? She got awarded by China for doing her job and doing it well.
There is no Chinese parallel to Captain Crozier because firstly China never tried to cover up or suppress the scale of COVID19; and secondly because when the alarm was raised through proper channels, China deployed world leading medical experts to investigate immediately, and followed their expert advice and adopted their recommendations without hesitation and in full despite the costs
