Posted on 01/29/2020 6:47:26 AM PST by RummyChick
Villages around the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak are flocking to prevent residents from the largely quarantined Hubei Province from fleeing into their land, it has emerged.
Videos and pictures circulating on social media purport to show frightened locals living near the border of Hubei resorting to various methods - including destroying roads and using weapon-wielding guards - in a desperate bid to stop people escaping from the other side.
Six villages in the province of Hebei, which does not adjoin virus-ravaged Hubei, even started to build brick walls to barricade themselves and stop outsiders, a report revealed yesterday.
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A chainsaw and a couple of bridge blocking vehicles could seal off my area for miles and miles.
There’s a great book by Daniel Defoe (he wrote Robinson Crusoe)...called ‘The Plague Year’. On Amazon e-books, you can find it listed free. Covers the plague and various ways that villages and cities handled it.
[Looks like it!
I’ve read elsewhere that the proximate cause of at least some of these were Grand Solar Minimums affecting food production/distribution.]
The fact that there were SO MANY chinese peasants didn’t hurt their chances either.
Population density sometimes has its benefits.
And the chinese elites tended to be bureaucrats who flew desks and abacus’s (abacii?)
I have my own theory about why western peasants were seldom even close to being successful...
Bonemaker :"American villagers dig up roads and arm themselves with AR 15’s to prevent big city residents from escaping into their communities."
Prepper Ping - Chinese Village Response to Wuhan Virus- (creating Quarantine Zone)
Community self-protection.
The OP sets the tone and photos reinforce the medieval tone.
You do what you can to protect yourself and your community.
This article demonstrates the need for community for self-preservation.
China's population density is about the same as Europe's, and was lower for much of human history. China's just bigger, land area-wise. In 1800, China's land area was 5.1m sq miles. Its population was 300m. That's about 58 people per sq mile. Whereas the UK's land area was 120,000 sq miles (including Ireland) and its population was 16m. That's another way of saying that the UK's population density, at about 133 per sq mile, was more than double China's.
That hasn't changed. Even today, China's population density is about half the UK's.
Well, discounting the Gobi and other parts not easily populated.
The areas that support a population are more densely populated and have been for a while.
Rice produces more food/acre than wheat, rye or barley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_density_1994_-_with_equator.png
Your premise would make an interesting research paper. The effect of population density on the outcome of peasant revolts.
I wonder what that map looked like during the middle ages prior to the plague years...
[Well, discounting the Gobi and other parts not easily populated.
The areas that support a population are more densely populated and have been for a while.
Rice produces more food/acre than wheat, rye or barley.]
Dunno.
The Scots won a battle or two vs. the English in the early 1300’s but seem to have lost the majority of the rest of them. But until the early 1700’s England doesn’t seem to have cared enough about it to have actually invaded.
Scot food was mostly oats. English ate wheat. It took lots of excess of both to feed heavy horse mounted troops and Scotland doesn’t seem to have had that after the famine of 1315 (end of medieval warm period).
The last time entire cities were placed under quarantine”
The 1500’s.
As I said, I have a tinfoil reason (actually several of them) for why the European/MidEast revolts seem not to have gained ground.
Towns in the US did this in the 50s with polio.
“You WILL buy the Mongolian beef or Mongolian chicken, and you will like it!”
An interesting article that relates directly to some of your recent posts.
The FACT that Asian average IQ is a little higher than European/White average IQ could have something to do with that.
(Now I’m gonna be called a racist.)
Didnt know Commie China allowed you to have gun
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