Wuhan woman screams as Chinese authorities barricade her inside own home

Metro UK ^ | Sunday 2 Feb 2020 | Faye Brown

[nickcarraway]

Chinese authorities have been accused of leaving people to ‘starve and die’ after shocking videos emerged of police barricading families into their homes to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Footage sent to Metro.co.uk shows masked men nailing huge metal bars over the doors and windows of people feared to be infected with the deadly disease.

In one, a woman can be heard screaming and pleading as uniformed officers lock her inside. A sign outside her sealed off door reads: ‘This family came back from Wuhan. Stay away, no contact’.

The video is believed to have emerged from Nantong, in the JiangSu province, but censorship laws make its origin difficult to trace.

Chinese human rights activist Fengsuo Zhou told Metro.co.uk he had seen videos of this nature in at least four different locations across the country.

He said lock-downs were being ordered by central government to cover up criticism they were too slow to act against the coronavirus crisis.

He told this news site: ‘People are feeling desperate and angry.

The Chinese government is more focused on censorship than public welfare because they know their credibility is challenged ‘They have covered up the crucial information too long. Doctors were censured by police for talking about the pandemic one month ago.’

Coronavirus has killed almost 300 people and spread to over 17 countries since emerging in Wuhan in December 2019.

The city and around 20 other neighbouring states in the Hubei province have been on lock-down for over a week, isolating some 50 million people in a sweeping control measure to stop the infection spreading.

Images show usually bustling streets completely deserted, with people only allowed to leave their homes to buy food and face masks. But some are being denied even that basic right if they are thought to have been struck down with the pneumonia-like flu.

An India-based human rights activist, who wanted to be known only as Tarun, said people have begun digging up roads leading to Wuhan and Hubei to stop people leaving their homes.

He accused the government of leaving people to ‘starve and die’ and likened the lock-downs to ‘cold blooded murder’.

He told Metro.co.uk: ‘My friend says that the public as well as authorities are locking down infected people within their homes, so that they can’t come out in the open, as the public doesn’t wants such people to come in their contact.

‘It’s also being said that public has dug up roads leading to Wuhan/Hubei, so that people of these places can’t enter other areas, due to the fear of being infected.’

He said he had friends across China who were in panic mode as things go from ‘bad to worse’. However, they are unable to voice their struggle to the rest of the world because social media is so heavily regulated. The Chinese government has tried to silence information regarding the epidemic in a bid to down play it.

Dozens of people have been arrested for ‘rumour-mongering’, online discussions have been censored and journalists have been banned from reporting on it.

Among the detainees was a doctor who warned friends about the mystery illness on a private WeChat group.

He is now in critical condition with Coronavirus, according to the Human Rights Watch. The NGO said people under quarantine are being denied access to life-saving medicine, public health advice and other necessities that amount to a breach of human rights.

The organisation said: ‘Authorities in places outside of Hubei province should prohibit discrimination and harassment against people from Hubei and ensure their equal access to housing and medical care. ‘Violating the rights of tens of millions of people in the effort to address the coronavirus outbreak will be counterproductive. Transparency and engaging civil society will be the far better approach.’

[blueplum]

Paki students stopped from leaving China during airport check in, they were flagged for having a visa to Wuhan. Tested negative but on 14-day quarantine in ‘5-star hotel’ anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAY79_gmtMg

[TheNext]

Interstate I40 out of Southern California, people need to shut it down. What is the easiest way to close the interstate?

Anyone with tractors and bulldozers should get out there.

Chinatown LA needs to be isolated off.

[21twelve]

Resources go scarce when it takes 7 men and 4 photographers to install bars on a single door.

I’m wondering if the CCP put this out to show what a great job they were doing, taking the virus seriously and all. It looks like propaganda to me.

[eartick]

Look at the door header. It opens to the inside... Good luck trying to prop the door from opening to the outside.

[eartick]

But there’s a difference. It was a horrible event but it only directly affected NYC.

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Maybe in deaths and immediate property damage.

BUT, the entire nation lost when Bush and his cronies started laying down new laws to strip us of our rights.

And those abuses continue to today. Ever hear of FISA? New NSA server banks?

[dp0622]

Never let a good crisis go to waste...bush must have studied with dems

[familyop]

Brutal. Look at the actions of the government instead of focusing on the statistics issued by that government.

[blackdog]

Yeah. Tigers balls and rhinoceros horn tea isn’t really medicine. But why mess with tradition, right?

[FreedomPoster]

Why is this an either/or situation? Why not both/and?

[9YearLurker]

They sure can and have done a lot of damage to a lot of people while not beating us out.

[null and void]

We should have set the example by doing this to Kaci Hickox.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[bgill]

Actually, the population is NY and LA combined. How do they have enough people to lock up that many? Guess they’ll send someone around six months from now to clean up the dead body mess.

Note to self, hide a chainsaw under the bed and ax.

[redgolum]

Stories are of 100K dead in WuHan alone.

If true, the question isn’t if China collapses, it is if we can keep civilization going.

I am not joking.

[bgill]

And from a wet market.

[bgill]

[Veggie Todd]

Any pics of the woman? I might volunteer to be co-quarantined with her.

[HollyB]

“ He accused the government of leaving people to ‘starve and die’ and likened the lock-downs to ‘cold blooded murder’.”

Starving to death is worse.

[chris37]

if they are entombing people in their own homes... then they are lying about what’s going on.

I guess we’ll know the truth soon enough.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I noticed after 9/11 (I loved working on those towers in the 90s) that people on the Garden State Pkwy in NJ were going 100 mph give or take, many of them.

I view the Garden State Parkway as training/practice grounds for some of the roads that are even closer to NYC, such as the LI Expressway and the merging into NYC from the north as you come down I-95.

[moovova]

“And don’t come out until you’re dead!”