dilbert wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:47 am Hi, I have been living in Beijing for the past three years and last night arrived with my pregnant wife and our two kids.

I feel like I have pretty good insight into what is actually happening in China, having seen the insane escalation in not only the numbers but the massive change in public attitude.

There is so much to say about it, I am not really sure where to start but I can list a few observations and if anyone has any questions feel free and I'll respond as best I can. I have also been talking to my Chinese colleagues and people from Hubei province.

1. EVERY SINGLE person in Beijing is wearing a mask no matter where they go.
2. There was the least amount of traffic I've ever seen on the way to the airport (greatly different from previous (CNY) and they have cancelled all the freeway tolls.
3. Whether you believe Beijing actually has the reported "70 cases" or the much more realistic 700 cases, you need to remember at least half of Beijing's 24 million population is travelling due to the holiday, so whichever number you accept, understand that it is only representing half of the Beijing's real population.
4. Medical workers are being infected on a large scale, from the nurses to the head of major departments at top hospitals. (One of the top doctors in Beijing contracted the disease early on when he travelled to Wuhan to observe a patient and did not wear medical goggles...) However, they are not able to voice their concerns being that it is China and they all work for the government, which not only strictly monitors what they are saying on social media but forces them to say certain things.
5. There are several temperature checks/quarantine areas inside the Beijing airport. We saw several people getting turned away, or in some cases hauled away. They are asking people to sign documents related to their previous travel history and checking that against the records on your passport/ID.
6. There were NONE, ZERO temperature checks arriving at PNH. Nothing related to health. My wife who is a medical worker from Cambodia even asked the immigration guy if there were any infrared cameras or anything and his response was "of course there are, you just cannot see them". There are none in PP, however, they do seem to be in SHV and SR.


From the day we heard about the spreading we were extremely cautious, we holed up in our apartment and had virtually no contact outside of receiving grocery deliveries. We decided to come to Cambodia once we realized the government is not going to prevent people from coming back to Beijing, we knew we had to get out. We do understand the potential risk of us travelling to Cambodia but at this point, we do not even know when we will go back to China and we have decided to stay in a hotel instead of family's home and are constantly monitoring our temperatures and our symptoms and rarely going out, we will be doing so for the next ten days, at least.

Sorry if this sounds like insane rambling but it has been a crazy fucking week. There is so much more information I can share but as i said, it is hard to know where to start.

We have never been so happy as when exited immigration at the airport early this morning.

Tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn has told Thai and foreign tourists not to panic regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
He has told the tourists not to believe rumors circulating on social media, reported Daily News.

In particular he has told everyone to carry on spending at places like the big department stores in Thailand, all of which have measures in place to tackle the health emergency.
The media mentioned Paragon, Discovery Center, Siam Center and Icon Siam.

Such places are checking air-con and ozone treatments and have plenty of sterilizing alcohol gel on hand. In addition staff are cleaning handrails,toilet door knobs and other knobs.