Posted on 02/01/2020 11:49:45 PM PST by 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.’
“They could at least leave a box of food before sealing them up.”
Maybe a bat will fly through the window.
Scratch the surface of a commie and you get a thug...
Fuc8 China. What a horrible regime.
china is a third world shithole
Was talking to a friend last night who works at a local hospital. Said his hospital was FULL of regular flu patients as well as surrounding ones in the area.
... of people admitted to hospitals. If you want to know the mortality rate of AIDS do you go to all the hospitals, find the AIDS patients and track them? Or do you track every AIDS patient whether in a hospital or not?
The mortality may be more than the 2-3% that you get dividing fatalities by cases. But probably not much more. And it could be less, much less, if there are lots of untracked cases.
Thank you!!
LI Expy...boy that can be brutal with traffic at times.
And the belt.Oh God the belt!!!
since i was a kid in the 70s I remember my father cursing in Italian because of the traffic.
I drive I 95 very, very rarely. How’s what one?
that’s bound to affect the survival rate..
ROFL!!!
They’re FREAKING entombing people in their homes!!!
How sturdy and strong can the walls of their homes be over there?
If they have hammers or something along those lines they can make a hole in the wall :)
But...but...I read somewhere “health care in China is FREE”
Health care in China is not free.
Saw this immediately after Katrina west of NOLA. Locals pulled their cars up on the on and off ramps to block anyone from getting off. They knew they did want the NOLA folks in their towns.
During the Spanish Flu, towns in Colorado declared a ban on visitors and recently deputized men patrolled the boundaries to enforce it.
This is the real threat of this virus - the breakdown of systems required for our just in time economy.
The vast majority of reported cases remain sick in hospital beds. Too sick to release, not dead yet....
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You're right.
They charge the family for the bullet.
I have no idea why do they call themselves communist now. They don’t have socialized health care, paid maternity leaves, subsidized housing, free anything. They don’t even have state pensions and social security, disability and unemployment benefits. Business is private although there is a big government above it. It is more a fascist dictatorship than any sort of communist country.
And when the censors themselves get sick, more information will get loose.
This story reminds me of “The Cask of Amontillado.”
I’m having issues keeping my shifts going from the flu.
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