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'I'm in an Apocalypse': American Student Trapped in Virus-Hit Chinese City
Channel News Asia ^ | 30 Jan 2020

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).

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; wuhan
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To: blam

“I think I’ve seen a Twilight Zone episode similar to that,”
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The one where he broke his prescription eye glasses?
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Yep, that’s the one.


61 posted on 02/02/2020 11:05:58 AM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Russian got back home he says he will update soon https://youtu.be/_KuKlNh66R0


62 posted on 02/02/2020 11:52:45 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Thanks. Glad he made it home.


63 posted on 02/03/2020 12:17:57 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Black Agnes
I love it too! The first is still the best.

Why limit Godzilla to being a metaphor for nuclear weapons? He represents all man-made agents over which we have no control like bioweapons which the coronavirus may be.

64 posted on 02/03/2020 7:35:33 AM PST by Oratam
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