Covid-19 in China

[Randy W]

Package delivery is still underway, but this is usually about as close as they can get to your door.

https://www.facebook.com/305447029839943/posts/1016864282031544/

Where's my kuaidi?! As epidemic restrictions are still in effect, delivery men and woman are not allowed to enter office buildings or residential housing. Confined spaces outside have been set up for people to pick up their delivery.

Edited June 8, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Greg.D.]

My wife says, though it’s probably being used more and in more places now, that sidewalk pickup system was common when she was living and working in Beijing.

[Randy W]

My wife says, though it’s probably being used more and in more places now, that sidewalk pickup system was common when she was living and working in Beijing.

 

Yes, but there is usually someone "responsible" for traffic management.

 

I was admonished once for "taking someone's package ", even though I had made eye contact with, and gotten the hand-signalled go ahead from the deliveryman.

 

Even when the delivery person is still there, the packages are pretty well unprotected and in full view.

 

We have yet to lose a single package

Edited March 5, 2020 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

from the SCMP - This, coupled with the fact that it can be spread during the incubation period seems to indicate that it can pretty well 'hide' on an otherwise apparently healthy host., although this case apparently resulted from residual damage from the virus.

 

Coronavirus: ‘Recovered’ patient dies as China reports 139 new cases

• A 36-year-old man has died in Wuhan from respiratory failure days after being discharged from hospital
• Latest data from the mainland shows most new infections continue to occur at epidemic’s epicentre

[Randy W]

一分钟可筛查上百人体温，实时温度肉眼可见……

One minute can screen hundreds of people's body temperature, real time temperature visible to the naked eye......

from Xinhua on Facebook

Real time temperature scanning

https://www.facebook.com/369959106408139/posts/3413863302017689/

Edited June 8, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

Big data analysis. From CGTN

 

 

 

[Randy W]

from the SCMP on Facebook

 

People in China are staying indoors amid the coronavirus outbreak, but supermarkets are doing their best to stay open.

 

For the latest on the epidemic: https://sc.mp/coronavirusoutbreak

 

https://www.facebook.com/355665009819/posts/10158086480299820/

Dr Ben Rolfe says the world now has a new blueprint for dealing with major disease outbreaks in the form of China’s unprecedented quick lockdowns of cities.

Watch "Containment has ‘failed’: What the world can learn from China's coronavirus experience" on YouTube

 

Edited June 8, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Greg.D.]

I don't think the Chinese strategy is the blueprint for the world. More testing is better, yes, but censoring and doctoring information is not. I wonder what happened in those prisons where it was spreading and we have heard no more. The prison scenario is the opposite of self isolation at home.

 

All countries should massively ramp up the number of ventilator-equipped, isolation-capable beds they have on hand and, learning from China, have more personal protection available to (and used properly by) health care workers. That should be do-able. Of course, there will be push back from the health care industry who doesn't want their privileged secret revealed: shit doesn't have to be that expensive!

[Randy W]

from the SCMP on Facebook

 

Macau- no new cases in a month

 

 

“Now, Macau has zero patients, zero serious cases, zero deaths and zero infections in hospitals,” the director of Macau's Health Bureau declared.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816140728679444/permalink/2259021227724723/

 

Macau’s last Covid-19 patient recovers, with no new cases for a month

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3074025/macau-discharges-last-recovered-coronavirus

[Cale1953]

I just cant see other countries locking people into their homes and putting checkpoints on the highways. Its just a matter of days until world wide cases are greater than China, because it is spreading in several places. Expect a lot of crowing from China abpout how their containment worked and how the decadent West is failing.

[Greg.D.]

I hope they do crow -- and open a conversation about their system versus that of the free world's! Bring it on!

[Randy W]

from the SixthTone

 

 

China Races Against Time to Cure Its Virus-Stricken Economy

The country ground to a standstill to contain the spread of COVID-19. Now it has to get going once more.

 

 

 

Despite the fight against the viral epidemic being far from over, China now faces a titanic challenge getting the world’s second-largest economy back into operation. On Feb. 6, a central government office overseeing efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 called for an orderly resumption of business as the virus situation outside Hubei showed signs of stabilizing.

 

 

 

[Randy W]

from Abacus

https://www.facebook.com/355665009819/posts/10158087171124820/

China's Tsinghua University has a robot arm that could help with the coronavirus epidemic

The arm can perform ultrasounds and take mouth swabs, potentially allowing doctors to work with patients remotely

 

The machine consists of a robotic arm on wheels that can perform ultrasounds, take mouth swabs and listen to sounds made by a patient’s organs, usually done with a stethoscope.

 

Such tasks are normally carried out by doctors in person. But with this robot, which is fitted with cameras, medical personnel do not need to be in the same room as the patient, and could even be in a different city.

Edited June 8, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

from Radio Television Hong Kong or RTHK public TV

 

 

Wuhan people need 'gratitude education': official

 

 

 

A senior Communist Party official has called for the people of Coronavirus-hit Wuhan to be given "gratitude education".

Wang Zhonglin, the party secretary of the city at the epicentre of the mainland's Covid-19 outbreak, said Wuhan residents should work with the authorities to form "positive energy".

To achieve this, he said, party officials should carry out various forms of publicity and activities, including "gratitude education".

 

 

 

[Randy W]

from the Global Times on Facebook

Beijing IKEA re-opens for International Women's Day

https://www.facebook.com/115591005188475/posts/2929184300495784/

IKEA's store in Daxing district in the western suburb of Beijing resumes work on Mar 8, International Women's Day. Strict measures were still taken despite #coronavirus wanes in China. https://www.globaltimes.cn/galleries/3268.html

https://www.facebook.com/115591005188475/posts/2929184300495784/

Edited June 8, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)