More than 2,500 passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship are living in isolation with meals brought to them. But below deck, hundreds of crew members are living elbow to elbow. For them, there's no where to hide as #coronavirus cases rapidly multiply https://t.co/77g2tcuYix— Shreeya Sinha (@ShreeyaSinha) February 10, 2020
hey, notice how the coronavirus cases we're seeing abroad are in the settings of the rich, such as cruise ships and ski resorts and business conferences? That probably means cases are going undetected among the poor. https://t.co/tOvyje4ddw— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 9, 2020
We've reached a point where people are starting to wear inflatable costumes on the streets to protect themselves against the #coronavirus. According to Chinese media, a medical expert said this is "unnecessary" and that washing hands and wearing face masks will do đđđ pic.twitter.com/OvhOD76kum— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) February 6, 2020
This piece by @ourobororoboruo is superb on so many fronts, but man was this a gut-punch https://t.co/nfmIXw1xi5 pic.twitter.com/BLVf3UpcKk— Abby Seiff (@instupor) February 10, 2020
Trending on Weibo: Students' belongings thrown from their dorm rooms into a courtyard below. The school, Wuhan Vocational College of Software Engineering, was commandeered by the government to house sick #coronavirus patients. https://t.co/giujdUWPCn pic.twitter.com/Zh5W7WxLX3— David Paulk æłąć€§ć« (@davidpaulk) February 10, 2020
Community workers in Hangzhou have locked my friend in his apartment with a metal chain because his family traveled to Wenzhou (with nearly 400 coronavirus cases) recently. “What if there’s a fire at our home at midnight, and we can’t get anyone to unlock it?” https://t.co/jAmURVqjoQ pic.twitter.com/wGeGl2IP9m— Viola Zhou (@violazhouyi) February 5, 2020
At one hospital, we stumbled upon a jarring scene: patients were sitting outside, 5 ft apart, getting IV drips on ledges and in their cars. Some were couples and even entire families. They didn’t want to be inside cuz they said there were too many sick ppl. pic.twitter.com/B5Yb6SQOi7— Amy Qin (@amyyqin) February 4, 2020
Fascinating detail from this story: “The most efficient organizations at coordinating donations have ironically been celebrities’ fan clubs, the only sort of grass-roots organization still allowed to exist under Xi’s crackdown on civil society.“ https://t.co/vnCimSvNT2— Angela Chen (@chengela) February 6, 2020
WeChat is many apps in one - messaging, videocalls, cashless payment, reading the news, calling taxi, etc. It’s very convenient, but it also means once it’s suspended, you immediately lose access to all of that, with disastrous consequences esp at a time like this. https://t.co/6axUyqH2FQ— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) February 6, 2020
This could be from a sci-fi film. Drones spraying disinfectant in Chinese citieshttps://t.co/3yNwtzWLTM— Chris Anderson (@chr1sa) February 1, 2020
Forced to stay indoors, more than 40 million people have tuned in to the livestreams of two hospitals being built: Cement mixers become unlikely celebrities in #China #coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/Ja2e1FwylF— Sceptical Scribe (@rinachandran) January 31, 2020
*Stock up on facemasks at Amazon.