Do you remember this Covid news footage?

[Sitonyourdressmavis]

Chatting to SIL last night and we were remembering news footage we watched before the Christmas of Covid when the news was coming out of China about this virus. We clearly remember watching as a family news footage (would have been on BBC normal news not online) from China of people collapsing and fitting in the streets then being zipped up on stretchers and body bags and loaded into a black and yellow van by hazmat suited doctors/army. We all clearly remember this , it was not a film. What was this footage? Covid didn't present like that at all? We remember being really scared. SiL is a nurse and we remember her saying "what the hell is this thing"
Anyone else remember this footage?

No they weren't. The first broadcast was in Jan 2020 as has been linked to multiple times. Unless you'd like to provide proof otherwise.

Thank you - that was exactly how I felt. And yet you weren't allowed to say it because you'd be accused of being a crazy conspiracy theorist or downplaying things.

It was very strange.

Care to share a link?

I remember seeing a videos of mass graves being hysterically built at mass speed with diggers/dumptrucks in different parts of the world in preparation for all the deaths.

I think thats the danger when we are living in a digitally controlled world. Anything can later be deleted.

No, I'm not.

• 3 January 2020: The BBC reported that Chinese authorities were investigating a "mystery virus" that had infected dozens of people in Wuhan. Early reports indicated 44 cases with 11 in a "severe" condition, noting that a local seafood market had been sealed off.

This had only been reported locally, in Wuhan, on 31 December.

How would the BBC be reporting in December on 'problems in China' when they weren't even being reported in China at the time?

At this point, the words 'mystery', 'flu-like' and 'pneumonia' were being used. The reason for any attention was the SARS-like symptoms, which made people think of previous SARS outbreaks.

Do you have a link to the BBC reports you mention?

This is interesting about "early cases of COVID".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52935644

Where? Honestly, come on, engage in some critical thinking.

This is interesting as well and comparing satellite images of the Wuhan hospital to see there was more traffic there in August 2019 compared to the year before. Doesn't prove anything though. It could merely be an interesting coincidence.

I'm finding this thread fascinating though in showing how unreliable our memories are. Especially people posting about seeing mass graves etc being dug. Well, yes, they would have been been but that wouldn't have been on the news in December 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52975934?app-referrer=deep-link

But the shit didn't hit the fan in Europe between xmas and new year 2019. First detected case in Italy was Chnese tourists on 31 January 2020, first clusters of local spread detected 21 February, first death 22 February. The quarantines started in February. So even then you were remembering things at a distance of 2 months and are unlikely to have been certain of dates and details.

how do you know this?

Is this cognitive dissonance? Do you not remember?

Yes, I 100% remember seeing this on the news...Western media too. I remember seeing other videos with lines and lines of coffins and bodies bags ready to be buried.

I remember videos of construction worker type people frantically digging graves.

Funny thing is that all the people buried in my local cemetery between 2019-2022 all died from a natural death.

I was. Not on our news, but elsewhere.

You are wrong - just because you and many on here weren’t aware of it (thus lockdown being totally unexpected and a shock to many), it doesn’t mean that the information wasn’t out there.

I don't think the image was broadcast at the time the OP suggests.

While the first cases of what turned out to be Covid in Wuhan were identified in 12/19 there was the expected tail chase around identifying a new virus or whether the symptoms were down to a mutation of something else.

It spread in early 2020 with Chinese New Year and people visitnh friends and relations providing a vector for transmission.

If you're so sure this poster is wrong then why not provide your evidence from these news sources.

If the information is out there, why has no one been able to link to it.

We have plenty of posters saying they watched news reports, yet zero actual proof.

I have always believed that it was around in November 2019. It went round at my work (travel industry, UK); 2 colleagues were hospitalised with pneumonia. A friends' daughter was admitted into hospital at that time and they were told there was a respiratory virus on the ward that they couldn't identify. It's not rocket science.

100% anything digital can later be altered.

I remember seeing a published newspaper article with something controversial written on it during Covid era.

When I went back to view it the next morning, it had been edited but the original published date/time hadn't changed.

Anyone who would have read it initially would have suffered from scaremongering. They got away with it by digitally altering it after most people had read it. Its gaslighting.

so no postive test, no diagnosis? Rocket science it may not be but 100% certainty it ain't

BBC first reported on 3rd January 2020.

At this point 44 patients with pneumonia with an unknown cause was reported to WHO

China then reported first case to be 30th December

WHO and others have since started first case to be early December and suggested 17th November as the transmission date.

Mumsnet does not mention flu in china until much later. I doubt people were actively discussing it on Christmas Day 2019. 44 cases by 3rd of January would have raised very few eyebrows internationally unless directly working in that field in that area.

Ok interesting

now that IS true...that stuff can be altered and still show the same publication date to external viewers. hence if you find something you need to keep or refer to, you screeenshot it, a link is not enough. I belive though that if you can access the information from the server, it will show dates and times when the article was edited.

RSV causing pneumonia was prevalent in November 2019.

There were no tests after COVID was named as a 'thing' and yet people were still calling in sick as they were symptomatic and that was deemed as good enough.

I have never seen people go down so ill within hours of one another. None of us subsequently had COVID. We had all been exposed to it in the November, 2019.

It was here, it just wasn't yet going to need Government action. Not sure why anyone would find that so difficult to beleive.

Seems odd that the BBC would excise all its December reports of bodies in the street in China though and then restart reporting in January. If anything surely they’d be pleased they got the scoop?

Yes I remember it. Seen it online as well and some were laughing. There’s nothing funny about people dropping down dead.