China, Japan, and COVID-19

Things in China are horrid. There is about a 2% death rate there from COVID-19, although their hospitals are crowded, they are running out of food and medical supplies. Canada has sent some, although it likely won't help get our two Michaels back. Both plunked unceremoniously in jail after the US told us to hold Huawei executive, Weng Manzou. Politics is such a funny business.

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, 2020

The 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.

People have been arrested for growing beards or having too many children: https://t.co/78F9XKpPUc#KarakaxList pic.twitter.com/gc3I8Ki0at

— DW News (@dwnews) February 17, 2020

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.

📻 Download the podcast👇https://t.co/HkcMii4NMC

— BBC World Business (@BBCWorldBiz) January 28, 2020

"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