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?

Thank you. I am sure it will make no difference to @Sitonyourdressmavis , though!

Where has anyone said the videos don't exist?

No one is losing a debate. Posters are just pointing out that the OP's timeline is off. There's no evidence that videos described by the OP were shown on the BBC in December 2019. The diary entry isn't proof, and since OP doesn't have access to the trip letter, we have no idea what it actually said.

BBC 6pm news, 18 December 2019.

https://archive.org/details/BBCNEWS_20191218_180000_BBC_News_at_Six/start/0/end/60

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OK. I'm.not and I will share the letter if friend can find it.

I remember this, but it was circulated on social media, not the news.

This makes it even weirder. What the hell did we see? Definitely not on a laptop or phone. This is so bizarre

You are though.

People have proven it wasn't reported by the BBC as you claim.

You just said earlier that you checked with her and she had it!

If she can’t find it and hasn’t been able to verify the date on it since you asked her then that’s not evidence at all is it?

I can remember it being mentioned on the radio news and sitting in the car listening to it on my way to a hospital appointment. That was 16th Jan but I’d already heard of the ‘mystery virus’ before that, but it still would have been January.

Ironically a couple of weeks later all the British people in Wuhan were flown home and quarantined at the same hospital. It’s the one with the famous picture of the people on the coach being accompanied by medics in full hazmat suits, and the coach driver was completely unprotected!

Wrong. How patronising.

I saw it on the news, as the OP said, and showed it to my husband at the time. After covid had passed, I reminded him of the footage of the people on the streets and wondered why it hadn't happened like that where we were and he agreed.

I'm not wrong. How many more ways can people prove it wasn't on the news on the date the OP gave?

The reports definitely started in 2019. I remember because I was working in a particular job where I was in the London office every day, and by the end of 2019 I had left London for the North, so it has to have been before December 2019. I recall in that office job, the office manager running around buying hand sanitiser for us all because of the new rumours.

It really kicked off in March 2020 as I'd just returned from holiday, and I remember I couldn't find any toilet roll in our usual supermarket.

I had an awful illness from mid December 1999 and started to improve from 1st Jan. (I used a sauna and that seemed to help kickstart the improvement).
The discussion when I saw my friends after the break was the awful illness everyone had come down with, with the common features of thinking we were getting better, then relapsing again and at the later stages, of agonising back pain.
Pretty sure it was COVID. I next caught COVID Christmas 21 and it was a much milder affair than the 2019 illness.

I tend to avoid the news so didn't see anything until the people trapped on the diamond princess.

They’ve said it was a film or misremembered all the way through. It absolutely was on the news. I sat and watched it with my husband. I can’t speak to the op’s timeline that’s for them but many people were in complete ignorance of all this right until the Paddy’s day parades were cancelled that’s when many people first took notice. It absolutely had been circulating well before then in the press. I have a close family member heavily involved in Porton Down type research so I maybe took more notice early doors of the news reports than most.

Why does it make it even weirder?

You were certain that you saw the video on the BBC, and yet now that's been proven to be incorrect. Surely the obvious answer here is that you've seen it at some point, and you've just forgotten when you actually saw it.

As many said at the start of the thread, memories are fallable, even when convinced we're right. 🤷‍♀️

I'm struggling to understand why I came home and wrote that, and my Sil can also remember it.
This is a genuine mystery to me. (Not a conspiracy theory and I don't think it's been deleted)
I know I worte the diary the same day as I always do it each night
I'm asking about the trip letter electronically as I doubt she still has a paper one but again why would I have written that boring piece of news in my diary? Ie trip going ahead

December 1999??

The Covid timeline is getting more and more bizarre now 😂

But I went home and wrote it down though. So it happened that day

Yeah sorry December 2019

I remember watching it in a short segment on the BBC news over Christmas 2019, it was all really grainy footage from mobile phones. DH and I were very surprised that the BBC had covered it as the situation was only really known in the prepper/conspiricy circles at that point. We don't watch or own a TV and only really watch it when visiting relatives so it really stuck with us.

Then in early February DH gave his Dad a pandemic survival kit birthday present box as an example of what to buy as we had been stockpiling since before Christmas. It had loo roll, beans, rice, pasta, N95 masks etc. The family laughed at us and said "don't be silly, we will never need those". Come lockdown we ended up supplying various family members with all of the above and were asked many times, "how did you know?".

Is it not likely that people are remembering it as ‘Christmas 2019’ when in reality it was NYE and early jan 2020?

Which for me personally I would usually remember as ‘Christmas’ as I’d be off work, with family and watching it with the Christmas tree next to the TV.

@Whinge I was absolutely convinced one time that I had seen reports stating that Dave Hill from Slade was dating Rose West - it wasn’t true!! It was a different man.

Another one was that I was CONVINCED that I’d seen a news report that evidence had been found in recording to suggest that a prominent person in British history was a paedophile. I told someone about it who basically responded, “No way, where did you see this?!” … But could I find any news report at all? Nope!

i remember the news about it end of 2019, yes. I do not remember the exact specifics but I remember the news talking about this before 2020 arrived.

@Sitonyourdressmavis
I live in Italy. We had reports of an unidentified virus in China back in December 2019, before Christmas. We’d heard of various things over the previous years, bird flu, sars, outbreak of Ebola on the news. I too seem to remember a video and thinking, God’s sake, there’s always something!
My friend told me she was reluctant to take her daughter to the airport to pick up her mother ( IN DECEMBER 2019) because she’d rather stay clear of airports. At the time I thought she was being a bit over the top.

I just did a google ai search and got this -
Wuhan "Death" Sidewalk: The BBC and other outlets reported on a widely circulated Agence France-Presse (AFP)photograph and associated footage of a man lying dead on a pavement in Wuhan on 30 January 2020, while medical staff in hazmat suits stood nearby. While this was not a "collapse" video in the sense of a sudden fall caught on camera, it became one of the most prominent images of the city's crisis.