Ukraine: violent clashes as locals hurl stones at coronavirus evacuees’ bus

The Guardian ^ | February 20, 2020

[NorseViking]

Ukraine’s effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the new virus outbreak was plunged into chaos on Thursday as local residents hurled stones at buses carrying the evacuees and engaged in violent clashes with police.

The vehicles were finally able to reach the designated place of quarantine after hours of clashes. The masked evacuees, exhausted by the long journey, peeked through shattered bus windows as they drove slowly under heavy police escort.

Since the early morning, several hundred residents of the village of Novi Sanzhary in Ukraine’s central Poltava region had barricaded the road to a sanitarium intended to host the evacuees, fearing that they could become infected.

The Ukrainian authorities say all passengers on board had been screened twice for the virus before being allowed to fly, but that was not enough to pacify the protesters.

“Isn’t there any other place in Ukraine that can host 50 people, that is located in more or less remote villages or in far-off areas where there is no threat to population?” queried resident Yuriy Dzyubenko.

One protester was heard suggesting they should be kept at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.

[2banana]

Ivan the plumber!!!

“Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.”

[Egon]

Yep. We’re only ever a few days from anarchy, given the right conditions.

[Zhang Fei]

[One protester was heard suggesting they should be kept at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.]

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LOL. If it really is a bioweapon engineered by Chinese scientists to kill off the Chinese population, Ukrainians have nothing to worry about.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m rather surprised we haven’t seen some of this before now.

I hope that’s not what is ahead.

Half expected to see Asians targeted soon.

With 15 cases in the nation, I hope folks don’t lose it.

[RummyChick]

I just saw the story about how Dean Koontz had a man made virus in his book from years ago called Wuhan-400 developed in a lab outside of Wuhan. That is some surreal stuff right there.

[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.

[fella]

The people are smarter than the government.

[jonathonandjennifer]

So these protesters SMASHED THE WINDOWS of a bus carrying people the protesters believed might be infected. The stupidly of angry people can be incomprehensible.

[TigersEye]

I don’t want to denigrate the intelligence of Ukrainians but ... is really a good idea to break the windows out of buses loaded with people who might be carrying a deadly virus?

What was their next move going to be? Drag them out of the buses and beat them bloody with axe handles? Think, people!

[vladimir998]

Yes, and that was the second name. Originally it was called Gorky-400: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3051619/china-wasnt-original-villain-book-predicting-coronavirus

[KarlInOhio]

Let's see, there is a bus with people who potentially have a deadly virus so I want to throw rocks at it to break the glass and if I'm really lucky get one of those infected people to bleed all over the place.

I'm surprised Ukraine hasn't landed people on Mars with all the rocket scientists there.

[SpaceBar]

Ukraine sounds like the eurasian version of toothless hillbillies.

[Spktyr]

Because breaking the glass keeping the virus from spreading out from the vehicle is SUCH a good idea.

[Paul R.]

The mob mind.

Isn’t it wonderful?

[TigersEye]

That’s why I like living alone. :)

[KarlInOhio]

That is the 1989 release under his own name. In the 1981 first edition for which he used the pseudonym Leigh Nichols, the disease was Gorki-400 from the Soviet Union.

[caww]

Not surprising....Ukrainians doing what Ukrainians do.

[caww]

Ukraine’s always on the edge of anarchy...it’s how they live....with or without conditions..

[NorseViking]