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Fear, Resistance, Resilience And Despair In Wuhan


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FEAR, RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE AND DESPAIR IN WUHAN


by William Thomas

 

Jan 23

An American man returned from Wuhan, China begins to feel unwell a few days after landing and – having read upon the symptoms of coronavirus online – drives himself to the perfect hospital.

The first patient at the new pathogens unit in Everett, Washington – one of 10 special containment wards in the USA – he’s being treated in a 20’-by-20’ isolation room by a robot doctor equipped with a video camera, a microphone and a stethoscope.


Jan 24

Footage captured by a nurse and posted to Weibo, shows sheets covering bodies laid among medical workers and patients in a Wuhan hospital corridor. 

The medical worker states that patients are being admitted non-stop without any quarantine measures in place.

The chaotic scene is thought to have filmed at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital, where a doctor treating coronavirus patients cries out, “What do we do?” 

“Three corpses have been lying here all morning. Some of them died in the wee hours. Nobody has come to deal with [them] yet, the nurse narrates. “Everyone will end up being infected and dying.”

Yet in this specially-designated hospital, “not a single person is here to manage."

”The coronavirus ravaging Asia is far more contagious than previously thought and can be spread by just sneezing,” reports Katy Gill for Video News.

The nurse’s video clip on China's social media is quickly removed.

As villagers across China are video'd setting up roadblocks to protect their families, at Nanjing Airport parents abandon their young son and daughter after they were stopped from boarding Xiamen Airlines flight MF8040 to Changsha after the boy was screened with a 38.5C fever. Over the protests of passengers, the children were eventually allowed on the

Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, tells FOX host, Tucker Carlson that local authorities in Wuhan can’t keep up with the corpses. “They are completely overwhelmed,” Chang said. “Clearly there is fear everywhere throughout China right now.”

Wuhan’s mayor claims about 5 million people left this sprawling city before the quarantine came down. “People can’t get to hospitals, so they are at home,” Chang said, “dying.”

The virus will “hopefully" be contained by April or May.

But hope is not an effective plan.



 Armed PLA soldiers in hazmat suits guard transit entrance


Jan 30

Comparable to London in size, Wuhan has been branded a “zombieland”armed Chinese soldiers in hazmat suits guard a train station by frantic locals not allowed to leave as medics patrol in hazmat suits, , and disturbing images circulate on censor-skirting social media showing Wuhan residents “dropping unresponsive to the floor”, writes Emma Parker for the Daily Star

Footage posted online shows bodies strewn across the floor of a Wuhan hospital. “Patients can be seen waiting to be attended while sitting next to figures lying on the floor covered by white sheets,” reports Alex Wellman.

A resident of the locked-down city relates how she spent a week taking her ailing husband from one hospital to another.

Although he’s coughing blood, the 36-year-old woman, who gives her name as Xiaoxi, tells the South China Morning Post they’d been told to go away by four hospitals. All claim to be out of space and unable to perform any tests.

Xiaoxi says it was like “doomsday” as she frantically sought medical help for her husband. “We were told to stockpile food and stay inside,” she adds. “My husband hasn’t eaten much for days and his condition kept getting worse. And people just keep dying, no one is taking care of the bodies. If this goes on like this, we will all be doomed."

The 36-year-old, who took video inside a hospital showing bodies covered by flimsy sheet lying on ward floors, said some staff appear to be at breaking point.

“I handed a pack of tissues to a nurse. She was crying as she tried to get some people to come and move the bodies but no one responded.”

 

Feb. 1 

Corpses in Wuhan Hospital -youtube screengrab

As paramedics attempt to rescue dying patients, some Wuhan citizens enter Wuhan Fifth Hospital and find “many” patients who died of coronavirus-induced pneumonia being packed for cremation.

Radio Free Asia tweets a disturbing video showing corpses loaded into a van and taken “directly to the crematorium,” after state-run Global Times tweets: “Victims should be cremated close by and immediately. Burials or transfer of the bodies not allowed. Funerals not allowed to avoid spread of the virus.”

Wuhan is rebranded “zombieland” by frantic locals, who are say that the unusually thick and persistent smog across the city is smoke from crematoriums burning coronavirus-infected bodies “24 hours a day.

 

Feb 2

Wuhan resident Fang Bin is arrested for posting footage of 8 bodies in 5 minutes loaded into a shuttle bus from a single ward at Wuhan’s Third hospital. A shaken Bin is released after having his computer confiscated and assuring police he won’t do it again. 

 

Feb 4

The mysterious haze, which residents say has “come out of nowhere,” settles like a coul over Wuhan one day after the National Health Commission in China orders all coronavirus fatalities to be cremated, with burials and funerals banned, to prevent spread of the disease.

The World Air Map shows Wuhan’s pollution at “dangerous” concentrations, with highs of 121 AQI –   despite the city being completely shuttered for over a week.

"Incinerators are running 24 hours a day. It takes 1-3 to incinerate a body, that's burning 112-336 bodies A DAY!” one resident tweets.

 

Feb 5

Passengers on cruise liners docked in Italy, Yokohama and other Caribbean ports remain confined to their staterooms, and “plane plague” fears grip everyone aloft as foreign nationals are airlifted home into 14-day quarantine by their governments.

filled body bags in Wuhan -youtube screengrab

Internal videos from a crematorium in Wuhan show a dozen or more body bags lined up, awaiting incineration, while workers sing Jackie Chan's song at the Spring Festival Gala, “My country doesn't seem sick at all.

“People with the symptoms are being turned away by overstretched hospitals,” reports Henry Holloway, Chief Reporter for the Daily Star. “The health care system is reported to be completely overwhelmed, with doctors also having a shortage of testing kits.”

Chinese authorities are threatening people who spread “unofficial” information about the coronavirus online with 7 years in jail.

A worker at the Caidan Funeral Home in suburban Wuhan, says Wuhan’s seven crematoria are working flat out, burning 100 bodies every day since January 28.

Staff can only sit on their chairs and nap whenever they get a chance. “We can’t stop because we can’t leave the bodies outside for a long time.

“For us who transfer the bodies, we don’t eat or drink for a long time in order to preserve the protective suit, because we need to take off the protective suit whenever we eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. The protective suit can’t be worn again after being used.”

His workplace is required to pick up bodies from Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Wuhan No. 13 Hospital, the newly built Huoshenshan Hospital on Vulcan Hill, and other small hospitals. They also pick up cadavers at residences, where occupants dread their arrival.

“Every day, we need at least 100 body bags,” said the exhausted worker. “All Wuhan cremation chambers are working 24 hours. We work 24 hours. We are very tired. We are on the verge of collapsing. We really need help.”  

Meanwhile, shunned Chinese sex workers slash fees and a woman scares off an attacker by pretending she has the coronavirus.

High aloft, a woman with coronavirus ends up on the same flight with Brits returning from China. Another airliner turns back after a man makes a coronavirus joke.



Dr. Li Wenliang warned of potential "SARS-like" disease in December 2019 before he died from coronavirus.

China hero, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of potential "SARS-like" disease in December 2019 before he died from coronavirus.


Doctors studying the strangely configured coronavirus say China’s official figures “don't fit.” 

There must have been more cases happening that we weren’t being told about,” complains an angry John Mackenzie, senior member of the WHO's emergency committee.

The only way to stop a pandemic is to deny it fresh human hosts. Which is why more than 60 million people remain under virtual house-arrest in China.


 






See also:

WILL CORONAVIRUS CRASH THE WORLD ECONOMY?


WAS THE CORONAVIRUS MODIFIED FOR VIRULENCE IN A LEVEL P4 WUHAN LAB?



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