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?

The reports of door welding emerged in Feb 2020.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/coronavirus-residents-welded-inside-their-own-home-DWyW9T_2/

Not at that level! I understand winter bugs/viruses but this was different.

Thank you.

I agree with everything you have written.

The scare-mongering in the news (TV and social media) was really very strange at times, especially during the build up to March 2020.

I've just seen that, they make it clear that it's unverified and had been circulating on social media.
There are no people fitting as OP has said either.

Ok so there were staged videos as remembered, and the mass grave one which some have said no way to. The issue is the timing from the op and a few other posts.

I’m interested in the drinks one from @DeftWasp

Footage was shown on the news of a person convulsing on a hospital stretcher in China when the news of COVID first began. OP is correct.

I am weary of this cognitive dissonance....grasping at straws to convince yourself. The truth is scarier than the false reality you have invested in. Always an explanation to twist the truth & comfort yourself.

The same mass graves hysteria was broadcast from other countries, including America.

I'm done debating. No point. Believe whatever you like.

Check the date.

The article linked to that video is from February 2020.

So the OP is not correct. There's still no evidence that the OP saw news reports on the BBC in December 2019.

@Sitonyourdressmavis I believe you that in the sense that the diary entry exists in an entity (we don’t know exactly the wording or context and where you saw the video is not recorded and therefore there is still large potential for misremembering, even with a dated diary entry) - However, I find the extent to which a number of commenters are on board with the narrative of ‘lying’ and ‘footage disappearing’ quite worrying.

The amount of misinformation (often combined with elements of truth) that is out there right now with the intent of undermining our institutions is pervasive and to be taken very seriously. While I am not saying that you are specifically peddling that too, your post aligns with that category and those ready to run with it.

I think news footage from winter 2019 of a different virus like ebola (which does look terrifying in footage) on the news is the most likely answer.

On top of people just getting generally confused by the timeline of events more than half a decade on.

Have no explanation of the OPs mysterious letter form the school about China which she conveniently can’t post on here. Why on earth would some random British school know before the world health organisation?!

The footage shown is very similar in tone. Especially the one man that falls directly over. In what I saw , someone did this , facing up, had a fit and was then put on a stretcher into a van , then other people dead and lifted onto trolleys and zipped into body bags

The news item was in between Xmas and New Year, the conversation about the news item happened when the shit hit the fan and we realised it wasn't confined to a small area of China as we thought when we'd watched that news in late December.

I remember the video. Bodies everywhere. Then, Bill 'I make more money out of vaccines than computers' Gates swooping in to save us all.

I don’t remember the footage you mention OP, but I remember a news story about a new respiratory virus in China pop up on my phone as we were on our way to visit family for Christmas. Not sure which channel it was though.

A hospital stretcher, in a hospital?

Does anyone else remember the website tracking the cases? I can't remember what it was called would be interesting to know when it started.

However many times you try to suggest I'm weird or lying it's not true. The school were forced to respond to parents asking if the trip was going ahead , those parents must have seen something/heard about something.
It's not that I conveniently can't post it . I wrote it in my diary and have asked friend if she still has it electronically. The trip went ahead before Christmas

Then share the letter!

You are talking absolute nonsense. Sorry!

Well here is the content of the news from 18th December 2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/pages/content-index/2019/12/18?page=1

It didn’t happen.

Yes they are and now as the videos have been shown they’re trying to discredit the OP in any other way they can. Classic logical fallacy argument when losing a debate.

The Doctor who spotted the cases didn't try and tell his fellow doctors until the end of December

Mass graves and mortuary capacity were high on the march/April 2020 agenda. I was in the meetings for our county. It was worse case scenario planning rather ran hysteria and we didn’t discuss it with the media.

I remember a very heavy cold or flu-type virus going round the primary school around the end of November beginning of December, and kids off for a full week or more.

Then in 2020 people trying to work out whether that could have been a form of covid but too soon for it to have been recognised as covid.

No, the actual debate is whether people were referencing this on mainstream media prior to Christmas 2019.