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If you are interested, there is a crowdfund in the UK trying to raise money to provide surgical masks to doctor and nurses in Wuhan. Here is the link: https://w

If you are interested, there is a crowdfund in the UK trying to raise money to provide surgical masks to doctor and nurses in Wuhan. Here is the link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/standbywuhan https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/standbywuhan

dspillett 7y ago
If the area is officially locked down, blocking transport by land, air, & water, how are they planning to deliver the masks? I assume there are exceptions made for appropriate officials and medical personnel, if adequate quarantine rues are followed, do the group attracting the crowd funding have access to this channel? Or drone based deliver perhaps (assuming they don't break the transport in/out rule despite not being manned so not presenting the same infection spread vector)? I'd like to know the masks are going to go somewhere useful, rather than being blocked by the rules and distributed around officials instead of to hospital staff & patients and the public, before I donate.
- jialutu 7y ago
  So apparently it's not a full quarantine like everyone suggests, but more of a partial quarantine. My understanding is that deliveries to the local government is not accepted, so they are sending this straight to the hospitals. I also hear the logistics are set up, with more information currently available in the wechat group set up for this.
  - gamblor956 7y ago
    This is a full quarantine per all media reporting, including Chinese party apparatus. People are allowed in but are not allowed to leave once they are in Wuhan.
lykr0n 7y ago
No. That's the government's job. China is not some impoverished country.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago
  > China is not some impoverished country. That's not obvious. Here are some countries with higher estimated GDP per capita than China: Mexico (roughly equal) Malaysia (10% more) Romania (24% more) Uruguay (69% more)
  - lykr0n 7y ago
    The per capita is low in China, but that doesn't make the different layers of government unable to provide stuff like that.
- hmbe 7y ago
  Not to mention these masks are likely made IN China... divert production.
hker 7y ago
FWIW, a twitter user claims to be threatened by the police for donating surgical masks and goggles in Hubei: Tweet in simplified Chinese: https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029 https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029 With link to YouTube in Mandarin: https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE

dspillett 7y ago

If the area is officially locked down, blocking transport by land, air, & water, how are they planning to deliver the masks? I assume there are exceptions made for appropriate officials and medical personnel, if adequate quarantine rues are followed, do the group attracting the crowd funding have access to this channel? Or drone based deliver perhaps (assuming they don't break the transport in/out rule despite not being manned so not presenting the same infection spread vector)? I'd like to know the masks are going to go somewhere useful, rather than being blocked by the rules and distributed around officials instead of to hospital staff & patients and the public, before I donate.

jialutu 7y ago
So apparently it's not a full quarantine like everyone suggests, but more of a partial quarantine. My understanding is that deliveries to the local government is not accepted, so they are sending this straight to the hospitals. I also hear the logistics are set up, with more information currently available in the wechat group set up for this.
- gamblor956 7y ago
  This is a full quarantine per all media reporting, including Chinese party apparatus. People are allowed in but are not allowed to leave once they are in Wuhan.

lykr0n 7y ago

No. That's the government's job. China is not some impoverished country.

thaumasiotes 7y ago
> China is not some impoverished country. That's not obvious. Here are some countries with higher estimated GDP per capita than China: Mexico (roughly equal) Malaysia (10% more) Romania (24% more) Uruguay (69% more)
- lykr0n 7y ago
  The per capita is low in China, but that doesn't make the different layers of government unable to provide stuff like that.
hmbe 7y ago
Not to mention these masks are likely made IN China... divert production.

hker 7y ago

FWIW, a twitter user claims to be threatened by the police for donating surgical masks and goggles in Hubei: Tweet in simplified Chinese: https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029 https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029 With link to YouTube in Mandarin: https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE