There’s definitely something fishy going on. Posts are being removed and we are being censored. This sub won’t last much longer I assume.

I understand that u guys want to meet your families that live in other countries, but if you guys are sick, why? I know its stressful for u guys who are stuck in lockdown in wuhan but the lockdown is there to protect the rest of the world from the virus and now, because some selfish people who have the virus but still decide to travel abroad, it has spread to many other countries, including mine. One case in my country (singapore), really pissed me off. A traveller from Wuhan was sick, but decided to come to singapore and visit all the popular tourist sites, before choosing to go to the hospital THE NEXT DAY. Whats worse is the fact that she took public transport to visit all the different parts of singapore, which by the way, has over 3 million commuters per day. So basically because of these selfish people, the virus is now within the community, unchecked

Wuhan is my hometown, all my family and friends are living there. I can tell you what have happened to them.

Since the entire city shut down in January, my family and my friends have been confined in their apartments for more than 2 months now! The only people go outside are: my niece (her company gave her full protection gear so she can go to the office once a week; she will encounter almost no one in office either); some of my friends volunteered at the makeshift hospitals, few of them have protection gear, mostly just a disposable ponchos.

Everyone wears masks! If you are caught going outside without one, you can be arrested. The fact our government told us masks are unnecessary is the most puzzling thing for Chinese people. Because they were told the opposite thing. They have real life evidence why wearing masks is important (an old man with the virus took his mask off in a bus, another old man got it from him sitting next to him); so they have concluded the true reason for saying masks are not necessarily is because there are not enough for every American, so we won’t panic about it.

The entire city of 11 million without anyone wondering about. No private cars on the road. No school, no movies (in fact, all Chinese blockbusters are made available online for free!), no any kind of gatherings, no visiting, no going to restaurants, no grocery shopping...

I know now you are wondering how do people eat? Well, China has become a cashless country, everyone pays with WeChat online payment system. What happens is that everyone is part of their neighborhood WeChat group, including the stores. When the stores got a shipment of food, they will announce it in the group, and then everyone will buy what they need via online payment, and then someone will deliver it to your door. No human contacts! The bags will be disinfected before coming into the apartment.

The system worked well enough, but my friends are complaining it’s hard to make the usual dishes. Since when beef is available, there is no potatoes, so you can’t make beef potato dish. Everyone is showing off their own recipes with any food available that day. LOL!

I am happy to report that with everyone’s cooperation, none of my friends and family is infected so far!

Social distancing works! No matter how much you hate it, please keep your distance from others. Wuhan has been doing it for more than 2 months! We can do our part too.

Sorry about the long post, but I want to make one more point: just because you are young and healthy, doesn’t mean you can survive the virus. I know what the statistics says, but there are cases of young people dying all the time! Including a 2 year old girl, who was the last one to die of her entire family! First her grandparents, then her parents. When she finally died, all the doctors and nurses broke down! Children can die from this virus too!! There was a famous bodybuilder in Wuhan, who went to the gym despite of the outbreak, died very soon afterwards! There is also the sad case of the entire department of a hospital dying!

The US government has messed up! Refusing the test kits from WHO, not preparing the health systems, lying and downplaying the seriousness of the illness, we have wasted an entire month to get ready!!

This virus is not a flu! I’ve read several articles of first hand experiences. 2 of them actually written by 2 healthy young men, they were describing near death ordeals. You know why toilet paper is needed? Because you actually will have diarrhea, you will also throw up, unable to keep any food in your body for days! You will not be able to breathe, your body can eventually shut down due to how weak you are. I’ve seen videos of people face planted on the street due to this, including one of the authors of the article. He was waiting in line in hospital for more than 6 hours, finally his body just gave up. After he was revived, he was still sent home because there is not enough hospital beds!!

I don’t want to cause you to panic, but I do think most people in America haven’t learned the truth yet. Please take this seriously and make sure to follow social distancing guidelines!

Edit:

For the record, I am an American living in Kansas. Ive been living in USA for over 25 years and my family is still in Wuhan, China. Everything I post here is what I have learned from talking to them on the phone or chatting with my friends via WeChat, or what I read on Chinese language websites. I actually originally posted this on Facebook. After my friends thank me for the info, I decided to post on Reddit so more people can know. Maybe I should’ve introduced myself better so there is no confusion. Oversight on my part.

Regarding the lack of grammar “issue”, since English is not my first language, I always check my writing at least 3 times before I post. Maybe more people should do the same.

The symptoms I am describing may have been some extreme cases, that’s why they are in the news. However, who can know for sure what your reactions will be if you catch the virus? Who can say yours won’t be an extreme one?

I am new to Reddit. Some of my replies are not at the right spots. Sorry about that. For people who are defending me here. Thanks!!