The coronavirus vigilantes: Chinese villagers dig up roads and arm themselves with spears to prevent Wuhan residents from escaping into their communities

DM ^ | 1/29/2020 | thomson

[RummyChick]

Villages around the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak are flocking to prevent residents from the largely quarantined Hubei Province from fleeing into their land, it has emerged.

Videos and pictures circulating on social media purport to show frightened locals living near the border of Hubei resorting to various methods - including destroying roads and using weapon-wielding guards - in a desperate bid to stop people escaping from the other side.

Six villages in the province of Hebei, which does not adjoin virus-ravaged Hubei, even started to build brick walls to barricade themselves and stop outsiders, a report revealed yesterday.

[RummyChick]

Didnt know Commie China allowed you to have guns

[RummyChick]

The great China Wall

[Fido969]

Medieval.

[David Chase]

The bat and live mice eaters are cursed.

All sounds so Medieval.

[QBFimi]

Spear control laws being enacted even as we speak. (-:

[allendale]

A well armed suburban and rural citizenry will keep the urban hordes from overrunning their lands during the inevitable, soon to come, definitive American crisis.

[txrefugee]

Walls work.

[David Chase]

Hey!
LOL Great minds think alike!

[Jewbacca]

That’s a funny looking rifle. Wonder if it is real.

If it is, he’s probably a local cop.

[DownInFlames]

Looks homemade.

[Jewbacca]

You know, this might be China’s Chernobyl and bring down the communist party.

[RummyChick]

I thought it kind of looked like a toy gun. look at all the silver around the handle

[Black Agnes]

https://mobile.twitter.com/IsChinar/with_replies

Not every video is ‘real news’. But if he becomes aware some are fake news or old video he admits it.

[Red Badger]

BUILD A WALL!...YOU ARE GOOD AT IT!..................

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Zhang Fei]

That’s not a spear - that’s a big honking halberd. I thought that stuff only existed in chop socky movies (as silver-painted rubber replicas) and museums.

[Black Agnes]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NonghuaNews

Hugely sarcastic/cynical account run by the guy in my previous post. Humorous. Good laughs needed right now.

[RummyChick]

this one is interesting

chinese fighting back against authority

https://mobile.twitter.com/IsChinar/status/1222475767990362113

[Zhang Fei]

[Didnt know Commie China allowed you to have guns]

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My guess? Airsoft. Basically mean-looking BB guns. Although it’s also likely that you can pay off some military quartermaster or someone lower down the chain to pilfer your hardware of choice. Stuff presumably gets lost in transportation every so often.