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Unlike nearby Singapore and Taiwan, where governments have distributed masks to most citizens, Hong Kong residents must line up to purchase their own. They are now “queuing day and night” for any medical-grade masks they can find, said Ryan, a doctor at a public hospital in Hong Kong who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of reprisals. “We do not even have enough protective gear in the hospital.”

https://10ztalk.com/2020/02/15/hong-kong-struggles-with-coronavirus-renewing-residents-anger/


168 posted on 02/14/2020 11:41:48 PM PST by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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Wandering ship becomes ‘best cruise ever’ despite coronavirus fears
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) - After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.
“Everyone says ‘poor you’. But there was no poor you. We had free internet and free wine. We had three-course meals. There was so much choice,” said Zahra Jennings, a retired staff nurse from Britain.
How was it? “Lovely,” she said.
https://news.yahoo.com/wandering-ship-becomes-best-cruise-024836248.html


169 posted on 02/14/2020 11:52:41 PM PST by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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Queuing to get masks. Yeah, queuing is safe...


298 posted on 02/15/2020 5:10:42 PM PST by bgill
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