Posted on 04/07/2020 5:38:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan early Wednesday as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged.
As the ban expired on schedule at midnight (1600 GMT Tuesday), passengers -- many in hazmat suits -- expressed joy and relief as they filed into Wuhan's Wuchang station to catch the first overnight trains out of town.
"Wuhan has lost a lot in this epidemic, and Wuhan people have paid a big price," said a 21-year-old man surnamed Yao, who was heading back to his restaurant job in Shanghai.
"Now that the lockdown has been lifted, I think we're all pretty happy."
Government estimates say as many as 55,000 people are expected to flow out Wednesday by train from the city, which was placed under an unprecedented quarantine lockdown on January 23.
State-run Xinhua news agency said columns of passenger cars also lined up to stream out of the city at midnight as road barricades on its outskirts were dismantled, and that flights also resumed early Wednesday at Wuhan's international airport.
Some travellers could barely contain their happiness.
"I've been stuck for 77 days! I've been stuck for 77 days!" shouted one man who arrived at the railway station for a train back to his home province of Hunan.
The lockdown made Wuhan the first place in the world subjected to draconian containment steps now seen in many countries.
The rest of surrounding Hubei province quickly followed, confining tens of millions of people at homes and cutting the province off from the world as transport in and out was halted.
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I got a bad feeling about this.
You mean something like “go to other countries and spread the virus, or your family dies”?
Hopefully they will infect the CCP government in Bejing.Poetic justice.
Sidewinder missiles.
Now the truth WILL out!
“Wuhan has lost a lot in this epidemic, and Wuhan people have paid a big price,”
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We’ll never know how many.
I expect the propaganda to ramp up with how the
Cadres saved the people by their harsh but necessary
actions. All Hail the power of Xi thought!!
Lemme guess, they all have herd immunity.
According to the official stats, NY has paid a much bigger price so far and it hasn’t even peaked yet.
Someone is leaving with a huge manuscript about what happened.
That will be fun reading.
The Chinese are lying, their death toll is much higher than they admit.
What could possibly go wrong?
Death total was 10,748 yesterday. 2089 more since then. Cases up 34,583.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology
United States
Cases 397,538
Deaths 12,846
Recoveries 21,816
[Yesterday’s counts:]
We’ll never know how many.
No, probably not, but there are people who KNOW.
Just like the kindermord on the Square.
It will be another killing drop into the virus
that is communism.
Unfortunately, we have allowed it to enter our
academic body politic and while America is the
antidote it’s going to take time, and there will
be blood.
The outbound part is all well and good, but who’s gonna let them land?
I know we have a ban on direct flights from China, but is there some regulation in place prevent anyone from Wuhan transiting through some third country and coming to the US?
Boy, will that come out later. There is no way they would have had as few of deaths reported with their population density, lack of good medical care initially and everyone going everywhere for the Lunar New Year. A LOT more people died of this stuff in China than they are telling people. What a ruthless, heartless government.
Exodus from Wuhan due to the Wuhanic Plague.
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