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.’
Wait until a district court judge hears about this. He’ll put a stop to it!
Wuhan has a population nearly as much as New York City. They could at least leave a box of food before sealing them up.
Health crisis and Communism. Horrible mix.
LOL
The numbers will increase here but for all the talk about China’s economy and military and surpassing America blah blah blah...
they’re basically a third world country and a secretive communist regime which can never beat out a true republic.
This shouldn’t shock anybody.
Kinda sucks to have your house become your sealed in tomb.
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.
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That’s bound to affect the survival rate.
Seriously though unless there is more to the individual story, this sure sounds like the Chinese are still lying to us about the disease in general or have gone completely insane.
I’m starting to think the Chinese government is actually going to collapse over this. The Chinese are in a state of hysteria and are posting all these videos. The censorship system can’t censor fast enough!
Ring around the posey. We all fall down.
Read “Masque of the Red Death”. We have a problem. Time to solve it, not try to lock it up and ignore it. Won’t work for China, or us, or the world.
A single person died outside China is in Philippines so far. It tells more about their health care than about how deadly the virus is at this point.
Sounds like the stuff they did during the black plague. If one family member had the plague, the whole house was quarantined, and guards put around the place to make sure no one left.
A single person died outside China is in Philippines so far. It tells more about their health care than about how deadly the virus is at this point.
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I fully expect the Chinese will have a higher death rate, both because of healthcare quality, hysteria and political lies, and potentially garbage like in this article.
That said, we’ve not had a lot of deaths, nor have we had a lot of recoveries. Both in and out of China we’ve had a statistically insignificance near equality between those stated as recovered and those reportedly having died.
You are right in a sense that it is too early to draw any conclusions.
I hope this pandemic can keep the CCP busy from meddling in the US presidential election and investing in Hollywood.
Who was that masked man?
If I was in charge of a new Chinese constitution, I would put in a third amendment saying not to put bars on windows and doors.
I think it will pull any and all resources for a while.
I noticed after 9/11 (I loved working on those towers in the 90s) that people on the Garden State Pkwy in NJ were going 100 mph give or take, many of them.
The speed limit is 65.
My girl and I stopped off for a sandwich and there was a state trooper there and I told him “People seem to be going a little faster these days.”
He said “Well our resources have been redirected since 9/11 and we have very few cars patrolling the highway.”
So an event like the virus must take away from other resources.
I live in NYC and it was horrifying.
But there’s a difference. It was a horrible event but it only directly affected NYC.
This disease may spread across the entire country over in China.
I can’t imagine the amount of resources needed for that.
“They could at least leave a box of food before sealing them up.”
Yes but it would be Chinese food so an hour later...
Thanks for posting with the original link...
I was mentioning that to people. People don’t read enough Poe.
Year of Metal Brass plated lab Rat.
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