'I'm in an Apocalypse': American Student Trapped in Virus-Hit Chinese City

Channel News Asia ^ | 30 Jan 2020

[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).

[House Atreides]

“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.

[PghBaldy]

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

[Tired of Taxes]

Thanks. Glad he made it home.

[Oratam]

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.