Posted on 02/01/2020 11:13:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
For almost a week, 21-year-old American-born college student Nicholas Schneider has been trying and failing to find a way out of Wuhan, China, the quarantined city at the heart of a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
An eerie calm has descended on the normally bustling streets of the city of 11 million people, where Schneider has been studying geodesy - a branch of applied mathematics - at Wuhan University, about 16km from where experts believe the new coronavirus originated in a market illegally trading in wildlife.
"It's like a ghost town, barely any people and cars. It's a weird feeling. I feel like I'm in an apocalypse somehow," said Schneider in a phone interview with Reuters on Wednesday (Jan 29).
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He’s probably the only one left alive.
Poor kid. Of all the places he could have done a “study abroad,” he had to end up in virus-infested Wuhan. It’s like the line in Casablanca, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world...”
He’s probably the only one left alive.
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I think I’ve seen a Twilight Zone episode similar to that,
He is in an APOCALYPSE and he’s in it NOW!
Think of how much he could make with a book deal later on.
I don’t read books and I would buy that one.
I real life end of the world (or as close as most will ever see one) scenario being played out in front of him.
I’m sure that’s not on his mind right now.
And he has to survive to write it
There is a Russian kid trying to go home too, but he has to go to South Korea to fly out. His LIVESTREAM: https://youtu.be/mzmbiUyu7eo
“An eerie calm has descended on the normally bustling streets of the city ...”
er, shouldn’t that read: “ A deathly calm has descended ...” ?
Germany should be taking care of him.
These poor students and all the people there.
Watching the livestream... Marking to check again tomorrow.
Russian airforce promised to bring every Russian national agreed to a 14-day quarantine starting from February, 3 from mainland China. Azur Air volunteered to bring all Russians back from Hainan Island.
It’s not a ghost town.
People are staying home.
You’re right and if he does he’ll not get sick
I’ve had a similar feeling after a heavy blizzard.
Schneider has been studying geodesy - a branch of applied mathematics - at Wuhan University
Geodesy is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth’s geometric shape, orientation in space and gravitational field. The field also incorporates studies of how these properties change over time and equivalent measurements for other planets
Is this suitable for your Bring Out the Dead ping list?
Germany is; the German embassy is giving him a bus ride (along with other stranded students) to catch a plane out.
Preppier Ping?
Good example of why to have foodstuffs on hand for a few weeks/months.
“It’s like a ghost town, barely any people and cars. It’s a weird feeling. I feel like I’m in an apocalypse somehow,”
No you’re getting to experience Chinese life like you wanted to.
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