People aren't taught properly any longer. "We can't do anything because the store delivery didn't come". Between Frankenstein Complex and relying on Tech, it just becomes a ship of fools. Of cause it's never anyone's fault except maybe the patients.

Sterilization should be one of the first things taught. "Oh, boiling water doesn't sterilize anything", is the noise I've heard a lot over the past decades. It's boiling water at 220 degrees fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Of cause it can be smelly and disgusting work. Between companies ripping people off by convincing people you have to buy our stuff and down right laziness you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who can deal with Medical problems.

I learned sterilization when I was 6 or 8 along with materials to use. It's not hard to teach or learn.

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Government Staff in Virus Epicenter Are Getting Infected

NICOLE HAO

Many junior government staff who are on the frontlines in confronting the COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Wuhan, its epicenter, and Hubei Province have become infected with the virus, according to two recent internal documents that insiders provided to The Epoch Times.

The government documents revealed that the province also currently lacks protective medical materials for staff.

In addition, due to the lack of human resources, many junior staff have to continue working despite that their colleagues have been diagnosed with the virus. According to safety rules, those who were in close contact with virus patients must be quarantined for 14 days to make sure they are not infected and won’t spread the disease further.

Officially, tens of thousands have been infected, and more than 2,000 have died in China, the majority of them in Hubei. However, eyewitness accounts and experts’ analyses show that the authorities have been underreporting cases.

Junior Staff

One type of document provided to The Epoch Times is the “daily inspection report,” prepared by an agency within the Hubei government set up to combat the epidemic. These are reported to Ying Yong, the provincial Chinese Communist Party boss; Wang Xiaodong, the governor; and Huang Chuping, the vice governor.

On Feb. 6, Sun Chunlan, a vice premier of China, ordered Hubei authorities to screen every person’s body temperature in order to detect infected patients—by visiting each household in person.

The daily report on Feb. 19 noted that the Jianguo neighborhood on Ronghua Road, Wuhan, has 17 government staff members. “On Feb. 11, one staff member was diagnosed with the coronavirus

and was treated at a hospital,” it stated.

Days later, the CT scan results of the staff director and deputy director revealed that they may have been infected as well. On Feb. 16, the two leaders began their self-quarantine.

The report stated that now seven of the 17 staff have become infected. The other 10 are close contacts but have to continue their work screening residents’ body temperatures.

A similar situation occurred with junior staff in charge of other neighborhoods: “The deputy director of the Water Factory neighborhood on Zongguan Road of Qiaokou district, Wuhan, started to have symptoms on Feb. 3 and was diagnosed on Feb. 6. The other staff couldn’t be quarantined or take a break due to lack of human resources.”

Another staff member, a deputy director named Zhang Xinxin, had a family member who passed away at home after becoming infected.

“Zhang only wears a mask, without any other protective gear,” the report said.

Lack of Supplies Another type of document was prepared by the headquarters of Wuhan’s epidemic control agency, which reports to the provincial government.

The document emphasized that the junior staff lacked the protective materials they needed to conduct body temperature screenings properly. This directly contradicts public statements by city officials that the city has enough supplies.

As of Feb. 16, the stock of protective suits was 16,771 suits, but the daily need was 77,704; the stock of N95 masks was 20,755, but the daily need was 130,010; the stock of face shields was 6,758, but the daily need was 15,540.

The documents emphasized that the staff need more protective materials

and disinfectant products.

Chaotic Management

The daily inspection report noted that in some quarantine centers, there’s no isolation between patients with mild symptoms, the medical staff, and quarantined people who were in close contact with confirmed patients but have not shown symptoms yet. Quarantined people often visit each other to chat.

The report also said that at some quarantine centers, there are no medical staff or medicines available. Patients are not allowed to go back home to pick up medicines they bought before, nor do they receive any testing.

Seven of the 17 staff have become infected. The other 10 are close contacts, but have to continue work on screening residents’ body temperatures every day.


A medical staff (R) checking the body temperature of a patient who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 virus, at an exhibition center converted into a hospital, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 17, 2020.

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Unfortunately, that's always the problem with pandemics and deadly infections like Ebola. It's always the frontline medical staff who are exposed and effected despite all the training and supposed medical equipment/bio-suits etc.
My brother worked for the NHS and it was their duty to report for work during pandemics and they knew that stocks of protective suits etc were finite and also uncomfortable to wear. Ultimately, they were expected to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, no matter how messy the reality w is. I suspect that that is what's also happening here.

I agree with you that people often don't seem to know basic survival skills these days. My dad grew up in 1920's and 30's rural Ireland, which in those times was the equivalent of a third world country. No electricity, no running water and turf fires from peat. As a result, he could tell you about any edible plant, where to find it and what to do with it. His adoptive mother followed the Old Religion and was a knowledgeable herbalist and the closest thing to a doctor for miles around.
Although modern medicine, tech and convenience stores selling food and goods from around the world are fantastic (even someone as dirt poor as myself can live in a style that would make a Medieval Emperor green with envy), we are terribly ignorant and dependent on things remaining the same as they are.