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Writing about China for . viola@inkstonenews.com

Hong Kong
Joined November 2012

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  1. Villages near my home in Zhejiang have set up checkpoints to stop visitors from entering. At one place the entrance is blocked by a truck and a bamboo pole.

  2. A boardcast message from dad’s hometown in rural Zhejiang asking people to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak. (This is one of the most difficult dialects in my region. Have been hearing it every year for 20+ years, but still understand less than 30%)

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  3. A Weibo user said some doctors in Xiaogan had to make their own face shields from plastic folders, because the hospital was running out of supplies.

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  4. A now-deleted post by a (self-proclaimed) nurse said medical workers were told to sign non-disclosure agreements. Hospitals were running out of manpower/beds and refusing to test patients for the virus. Her husband had been having fever for 8 days but couldn’t be admitted.

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  5. A woman in Wuhan said she was diagnosed with the coronavirus but was turned away by the hospital.

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  6. A Huanggang resident said his grandma has been diagnosed, but his grandpa, 76, who developed symptoms after caring for the grandma, could not find a hospital to admit him. Later he said that the grandpa got tested for the virus after pulling guanxi. He’s now in self-quarantine.

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  7. A medical worker said she was told to only wear two layers of surgical masks at a hospital for fever patients. Had instant noodles for two days bc there’s no delivery service to hospitals. She also saw medical waste in lifts. (a day later she said the canteen started running)

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  8. A nurse who is 7 months pregnant said she was being treated in hospital for the . But she was struggling to find hospital beds for her parents (in their 70s), who had also developed symptoms but could not get diagnosed.

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  9. A medical worker said both her husband and she were having fever. They wanted to separate from their 2-year-old and 4-month-old children. But with the city locked down, their relative could not travel in to help with childcare.

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  10. All those Weibo posts coming out of Wuhan have made the new year so depressing: A woman said her mother had fever but could not find a hospital that would admit her or test her for . She had become too sick to move now.

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  11. The state-run China Children and Teenagers’ Fund at first defended including boys in the program, which only added to the anger of many women. Now authorities have apologized. The growing awareness of gender equality among Chinese women is making a difference.

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  12. These were put on Weibo trending after the news led to public outrage (despite initial efforts to bury it) 1. people send flower and milk tea to show respect/love for doctors 2. pass new law to ban harming medical staff 3. authorities pledge zero tolerance towards such crimes

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  13. A group of riot police just visited the station and left.

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  14. Long queue outside a polling station at 7.40am as Hong Kong people vote in a district election seen as a referendum over the protests, even though the district councilors elected will have with little political power.

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  15. Ended up as a small anti-mask ban march along Nathan Road

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  16. Dozens of tourists and dozens of mask-wearing protesters at the largely empty TST seafront

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  17. We took a dive into China’s cannabis investment craze by visiting a hemp farm, a CBD factory and a conference where tech bros talked about applying blockchain to cannabis growing. w/

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  18. They started singing Glory to Hong Kong and a few passers-by joined the chorus.

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  19. Two women tossed some paper money on the street outside of the wedding venue. She said it was for her dead cat.

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  20. The most tense wedding I’ve seen. A police officer is getting married and internet users have been talking about making a scene. Outside the venue police searched about 10 young men. An officer yelled at them: “what are you doing here? Are you preparing to break the law?”

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