News analysis Roughly one year after the CCP virus spread across China, the Chinese central government recently started a propaganda blitz to portray the outbreak in Wuhan—the epidemic ground zero—as a story of triumph over adversity. A joint-production between state-run and private media companies, the movie “Days and Nights in Wuhan” was made under the direction of the Zhejiang Province film bureau, and will be screened in cinemas across the country on Jan. 22. According to Chinese media reports, the film will deliver “positive energy” about the outbreak, featuring segments about government officials visiting patients, medical staff on the frontlines of the outbreak, and people expressing thanks to local officials. The film director Cao Jinling told state broadcaster CCTV in a Jan. 12 interview that she wanted to show how people “resign themselves to adversity,” and how important it was to “not complain about anything but just accept what’s happened …