Wuhan pool party shows China is over the Covid-19 lockdowns; the rest of the world, not so much
Nebojsa Malic
is
a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a
regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior
writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter
@NebojsaMalic
17 Aug, 2020 20:29
The sight of partygoers in Wuhan, China piling into a water park
without masks or social distancing seems like a cruel joke to nations
where no measures, however disruptive, seem to be helping against the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Wuhan is where the first
cases of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus were first observed in late
2019. The city of 11 million, and much of the surrounding Hubei
province, were placed under strict lockdown to halt the spread of the
virus. The lockdown included drastic measures such as people getting
their front doors welded shut, if one is to believe photos circulating
online.
Fast-forward to this past weekend, when
AFP published photos and video of an electronic music festival at the
Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park.
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