I got in touch with interviewees when the lockdown was first introduced, but kept up with them over the course of the Lunar New Year holiday. Basically, the consensus was that the Wuhan City government has failed to warn citizens of the virus when pneumonia cases began to emerge.
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Like many people in the city, they were caught off guard by the severity of the virus and the extent of its transmission when experts in
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When they looked back on the weeks before the full picture was revealed to the public, they realized how many infected individuals might have already left
#Wuhan, and when the lockdown was enforced, they viewed the move as merely cosmetic.Prikaži ovu nit -
Many of them risked their safety to talk to me because they want the world to know that
#Beijing's intention to hide the severity of the epidemic could put millions of Chinese people and even millions around the world at risk of an uncontrollable public health crisis.Prikaži ovu nit -
Names have of course been completely changed but the stories they told are authentic and original. These are ordinary Chinese people who were originally preparing for the once a year's big holiday but what they ended up doing was being forced to drop all celebratory mood ...
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... and lock themselves up at home. We all know who ended up shouldering all the blames and accusations, but to those who continue to live under the "lockdown," the mood in
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"The mood in Wuhan now is not peaceful, but a deep silence that's mixed with fear. Many of us don't necessarily know anyone who was infected, so we can't imagine the problems that families of those who have contracted the virus have to deal with," said one interviewee.
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Most of them told me that they believe this is only the beginning of a much larger crisis, and they can't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, since no one knows when the government will feel safe enough to end the lockdown.
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... and entrenched problem that has been plaguing
#China for the last few decades. These people, like many of us, are mere victims of this public health crisis.Prikaži ovu nit
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