China is turning to potentially risky measures to track down more patients of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 1,000 people.
They are now stopping the sales of cough medicine to flush out coronavirus patients as the number of infections from the new virus soared to cross 45,000 as of Monday (Feb. 10).
At least three Chinese cities announced in the past week that they would stop the sale of medicines for fever and cough, two of the major symptoms for the new virus, so that people will go to hospitals for treatment instead of self-medicating and staying home.
Other symptoms of the virus include muscle ache and shortness of breath, which can then progress to more severe respiratory distress.
Hangzhou, an eastern city of almost 10 million that is home to Alibaba and many other Chinese tech giants, announced on Friday (Feb. 7, link in Chinese) that on the advice of its coronavirus management team, all pharmacies in the city would stop selling fever and cough medications effective the next day.
The measure will apply as long as the city remains at the highest level of public health alert level. “Citizens with these symptoms should go to the hospital as soon as possible,” the notice said.
Following Hangzhou, Ningbo and Sanya (link in Chinese), two southern Chinese cities with a combined population of nearly 8.6 million, also announced over the weekend they would halt the sale of the two medicines, to better track and treat the coronavirus.
Southern Guangdong province, home to the tech hub Shenzhen that borders Hong Kong, has asked residents to register with their real names at medicine stores when they purchase the two drugs, so officials can follow up with them.
China’s health commission last month said that people who have a fever and see a drop in white blood cell count in a blood test, or are diagnosed with pneumonia, should seek testing in a hospital.
The WHO has said people who have been in China, and who experience fever, cough and difficulty breathing should seek medical care promptly, but should call ahead to health providers to inform them of the possibility of coronavirus infection.
Some residents worry that the new measures could lead some people who don’t have the virus to go to hospitals where they may be at risk of getting infected.
A study on one batch of 138 cases of the virus showed a number of those infections appeared to have occurred in a hospital.
There have also been numerous social media accounts of people with fevers and coughs going to hospitals and being sent back home because staff are busy with other patients, or kits to test throat swabs are in short supply.
Is this policy reasonable?
People could originally resolve the illnesses with drugs instead of going to hospitals to grab already stretched medical resources and being infected by others who have the virus.
The measure comes as Beijing is determined to contain an epidemic whose death toll has surpassed that of SARS, the fatal coronavirus behind an outbreak that occurred in 2003 in China, and also spread globally.
Beijing has reportedly ignored the help offered by CDC and may have delayed a visit from a World Health Organization team, according to the New York Times.
The reluctance could be due to China’s leadership not wanting the world to think the country needs help, said the report, citing anonymous public health officials and diplomats.
For Beijing’s part, it has put millions of people on lockdown, barring them from leaving their cities or even their residential buildings.
In recent days it also sent over 11,000 medical workers from across China to aid Wuhan.
Sun Chunlan, the vice Chinese premier, inspected Wuhan on Saturday and said the city must “not miss a single patient” with the virus.
Community workers are checking the fever status of people holed in neighborhoods, while officials will decide whether people will remain quarantined at home or be sent to quarantine camps. China has moved to allow doctors to make a diagnosis using chest CT scans, which could be faster.
However, top-down orders urging local authorities to achieve certain goals can lead to extreme measures. Some cities, including Hangzhou, have locked people who returned from virus-stricken areas such as Wuhan in their flats with metal chains, while some villages have built barricades to prevent any outsiders from entering.
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
Online, the restrictive measures on medicines faced skepticism from many. “The government told us before if we only have a cold or fever we should not to go to the hospital to avoid being infected by the virus. But now it stopped the sale of the drugs, allowing us ordinary people to be caught in between. I think this is a very bad measure taken by the Chinese government. More coronavirus news on Strange Sounds or Steve Quayle. [Quarz]
China just essentially declared military martial law and activated a full military response against the coronavirus n 2019 or SARS 2.0 pandemic.
Making things even more interesting, China’s CDC just issued a series of military orders that essentially place the entire nation under military martial law.
Detailed in this executive order released by the Chinese government, China’s new “wartime” declaration calls on biological weapons laboratories in China to “put an end to pathogenic samples being stolen, leaked or lost.”
Much of China’s declaration centers around wartime commands that demand absolute loyalty and zero errors in logistics and control of local regions. Here’s a rough translation from one of the directives (directive five):
The current situation of epidemic prevention and control is extremely serious, the responsibility of prevention and control is heavier than that of Mount Tai. With the coming battle, all Party branches should think and launch, unite the masses and commit fully to the role of battle fortress; cadres at all levels should lead by example, dare to take on the role and give full commitment to the leading role; and each Party member should rush forward, shoulder the heavy burden, and give full commitment to the role of pioneer and model. All Party branches, branches and cadres at all levels should earnestly fulfill their main responsibilities, and the disciplinary committee shall fulfill its supervisory responsibilities to ensure the smooth flow of decrees and the prohibition of the operation.
If you can make any sense of that, you might fit in well with a communist society, which at its core is rooted in total insanity and delusion. In fact, the very structure of communism makes society highly vulnerable to pandemics, since no truth tellers are allowed to warn anyone about the outbreak. Censorship gets people killed, both in communist China and in the USA where the evil tech giants are also complicit in covering up the truth about the coronavirus pandemic.
All Cough syrups are banned in China instead taken undergrounds for China Elite force. People in China are doomed with total Martial Law.
Right At Your Door Movie ?
Christian convert assaulted and psychologically tortured in prison
Mary (formerly Fatemeh) Mohammadi, a former religious prisoner who was once again arrested and battered during the January protests in Iran, is still in prison and has been psychologically tortured by the security forces.
Mary Mohammadi is a Christian convert who was first arrested in 2018 for six months.
She was again arrested for participating in a gathering in protest to shooting down the Ukrainian plane by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. She was severely battered when being arrested, to a point that the marks were visible on her body three weeks after her arrest.
According to HRANA, the security forces put her through unconventional body search twice and forced her to take off all her clothes and do sit-ups several times in front of female agents. She was told that if she doesn’t take her clothes off voluntarily things would become much worse for her.
While taking her to prison from jail, the agents cross-handcuffed Mary and another female prisoner together and would push them forward.
For several days after her arrest, her family was unaware of her whereabouts and it was only after Mary’s indictment that they were informed.
First suspected Coronavirus death in Iran
Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 09:46
The state-owned Iran newspaper reported the death of a 63 years old woman suspected of coronavirus, which would make it the first coronavirus related death in Iran.
Health Ministry officials had previously denied any cases of coronavirus in Iran.
In recent days, the media have reported several suspected cases of coronavirus in several cities including Yazd, Tehran, Qom, Tabriz, Mashhad, and Zanjan, but this is the first death reported.
JEFF RENSE AND ALEX JONES AND STEVEQUAYLE PLEASE ADD IRAN TO LISTS OF CORONA VIRUS WHICH WE SAID IT WEEKS BEFORE OUR INTEL ARE INSIDE IRAN?
CHINA CITIES DECLARE MARTIAL LAW OVER VIRUS OUTBREAK; U.S. MILITARY ORDERED TO PREPARE FOR PANDEMIC DUTY – “CONTAINMENT” – CHINA FACTORIES TO REMAIN CLOSED TO MAY 1 – STOCK AND CORPORATE DOOM. ALSO IN USMC AND OTHER BRANCHES OF MILITARY ARE PREPARING FOR MARTIAL LAW. SHOP FOR FOODS X1X30 BEFORE WE SEE OFF SHELVES IN NORTH AMERICA FOODS OR MEDICINE?
This means you are hostages of medical martial law. They decide based on your age and if you have talent to kill you .Who gives them totalitarian
law . If it happens sooner than later, we will disobey martial law and we will not going be shot death by Canadian army that has UN helmet on it?
We refuse to accept UN forces in Canada? Will Trump be last president of USA? Since there will not be election on NOV4 2020?