Over here, racism rears its ugly head as people avoid those of Asian descent or people wearing masks. We have hundreds of people quarantined in a hotel at CFB Trenton, airlifted from China. Hundreds more should arrive by the end of the week from the Diamond Princess. They are going to go to the NAV Canada hotel, which is in Cornwall. There have been complaints from those quarantined by Japan, yet they have to follow their protocols when in another country.
The Japanese government has repeatedly defended the effectiveness of the quarantine and bristled against criticism that the ship became a virus incubator instead of a quarantine facility.
There are 88 more cases of novel coronavirus on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship currently docked in Yokohama, the Japanese health ministry announced on Tuesday. https://t.co/909jx8uOXd
— CNN (@CNN) February 18, 2020The statistics are horrific. There have been seven medical staff in China who have died, with 1700 workers getting sick.
As number of infected his 542 on #coronavirus cruise ship, Canadians await repatriation as Americans land home. Both countries say #DiamondPrincess passengers will face #quarantine back home https://t.co/Tjt1zfxbrB via @cbcnews #covid19— André Picard (@picardonhealth) February 18, 2020
Elsewhere in China
One night, I read for an hour, and began yawning. By midnight, I took some meds, still awake.I was waking up at 5 a.m.,and that's not bad. It could be worse. I ended up listening to these podcasts.
What is awful, is the cultural genocide, which not limited to China. The Chinese government has a very strange culture.
EXCLUSIVE: China is tracking every movement of its Uighur minority to find reasons to detain them, a leaked document DW obtained from a whistleblower shows.— DW News (@dwnews) February 17, 2020
People have been arrested for growing beards or having too many children: https://t.co/78F9XKpPUc#KarakaxList pic.twitter.com/gc3I8Ki0at
Forced labour in China @edbutler2 hears from Xinjiang where perhaps 1.5 million Uighur Muslims are believed to be held in what authorities call 're-education' camps, and where we hear testimony of forced labour in factories.— BBC World Business (@BBCWorldBiz) January 28, 2020
📻 Download the podcast👇https://t.co/HkcMii4NMC
"Locked up, no freedom of movement, it wasn't clear they were being paid" - a new #bbcworldbiz account of #xinjiang workers coerced and trafficked across China. https://t.co/dOVuI8aM3a— ed butler (@edbutler2) January 28, 2020
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I wonder how this outbreak will end and when a vaccine might be ready. Have you heard anything about a vaccine? I don’t follow news on tv or radio, so I am a bit out of the loop.
I have not heard, AC. The problem is China wouldn't share the virus for researchers. It could be a year. Hopefully, it'll die off. Young people aren't as affected. They seem to not get it.
...this public health crisis is a mess and it appears to me that the Chinese aren't being very transparent.
The NZ people who were flown home had a 2 week quarantine, and there was a media comment that those who had to go into isolation would suffer mentally, and need counselling afterwards!!! I think we will never know the real death total, and now hospital staff are dying. So glad I wasn't overseas at the time, and hope for all those who are that eventually they can be flown to their own country, and go into isolation as required without any fuss.
Canada's such a generous country! May God bless its people and government!
There's one thing "good" about this virus; it'll cause the flu issue to be treated more seriously. Thousands die of it every year despite the vaccine.The researches and their results are not good enough, and don't justify the big money invested. The flu is also part of the Corona family.
At this point we don't know which way the carona virus is going. that makes things a bit scary.
I was enthralled by this post Jenn done I don't do much tv and what I do read is just bylines online. So, thank you for this. And hope your cataracs are fixed soon.
Jenn - it is certainly a very serious situation. When dealing with such a virus in a heavily populated country, it is an incredibly challenging state of affairs for the government and health officials.
A serious problem causing challenges for all.
All the best Jan
I have friends in Hong Kong and get their version of the news about the virus. It does not always jibe with what we hear here. In this era of "fake news" it is getting increasingly difficult to tease the real truth out of what we see and hear.
I know of someone whose significant other is down in Trenton as part of that quarantine.
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