A mumsnetter reports on being in lock down in china for 2 months

[stumbledin]

This came up on my facebook feed somehow, but thought I would promote here as it shows how a severe lock down of 12 weeks that might be working, is like to live through.

" .. I’ve now been in isolation for two months in China. It may surprise you to learn that I am not in Wuhan, or even Hubei Province, but Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu, over 700 Km away from the epicenter of the virus.

The impression created in the Western media is that by asking the residents of one city to self-isolate, China managed to bring the outbreak under control. It’s a dangerous misconception leading to a cavalier attitude and the false assumption that putting London in lockdown would somehow make things right. The truth is that China’s measures went far beyond anything imaginable in Western cultures and extended, at the worst of the epidemic, from Guangdong Province in the South to beyond Beijing in the North. ... "

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3855647-A-View-From-Lockdown-in-China

I saw that! People seem a bit taken aback by some of the measures but honestly, if you want a lockdown to work it pretty much has to work like that, as people won't do what they need to do voluntarily based on evidence thus far.

TheProdigalKittensReturn

That is indeed true, this happened yesterday in Whitstable, I think the pub should lose its licence and heavily fined.

www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/pub-says-sorry-for-large-gathering-224223/

It was a takeaway, and they were open entirely within the government guidelines as far as I can make out. I blame the people who scrummed as well.

Sorry, but fawning over the problems of a Chinese woman in lockdown is the last thing I'm going to do right now.

The way to prevent the pandemic would have been not allowing obscene live animal markets which were known to be risky in terms of disease outbreaks, and living on a diet of rats, bats and other people's pet dogs.

^not living obviously.

Sorry. I'm livid at the situation. I'm sure none of us are coping perfectly well.

Oh, well, better just kill all animals then. After all, pigs too can carry diseases that humans can catch, and so can dogs. Only what you happen to eat is acceptable....

I rather liked "Boston Calling" this morning, which was pointing out that the lot of refugees on Lesbos is a great deal worse than that of anyone self-isolating, or even in lockdown, since unlike lucky us they have no particular reason to hope the horror will ever end for them. Consider, for a moment, what their conditions will be when someone infects them with covid-19.

Maybe thinking about someone other than oneself is a good plan -- in life in general, as well as while an epidemic is going on. What evidence have you that the Chinese woman you are decrying there has ever seen a live animal market in her life, far less bought anything from one?

I will go along with her words:
To those expressing anger, hatred or even violence against others, please think about what entire nations have endured to halt the spread of this virus and instead of negativity, be thankful.

Who is fawning over a "Chinese" woman. She could be from any country but living there.

She is pointing out the actions taken. And as, although it could be reversed, this extreme lockdown seems to have helped bring about a turn down in 12 weeks we should take note.

At the moment our only problem is us. The complete selfish shits who are hoarding foods and the absolute idiots who are treating this as a holiday and acting like they are tourists on a day trip.

Also it has nothing to do with "wild" animals. They are just animals the west doesn't normally eat. It is the butchering at home that is the problem. And western industrialised abbatoirs aren't 100% safe.

Not forgetting that's why the US chlorine wash their chickens because the conditions they are farmed in are so lacking in basic hygience etc., that once dead they have to be disinfected.