look it's the mother there she is now
hello mother I might be infected right
now I have no idea
another beautiful day in quarantine
Rohan never I've quarantine
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well earlier I spoke to Ben Cavanaugh
who's from Island and working as a
teacher in Wuhan busy streets number one
trending on YouTube in the world is my
fat face oh my god hi oh yeah my name is
Ben Cavanaugh I live in Wuhan and today
I'm going to go to the shop one mask
another mask
apparently this mask actually doesn't do
much but two masks is always better than
one hopefully nothing is getting in
through my mouth I forget the most
important thing and the silliest thing
all right oh my god
got a big backpack got a big suitcase
okay let's go to the shop don't expect
to run into anyone today I'm not gonna
touch them with my hand I'm just gonna
knee it I love it
no one around
another beautiful day in quarantine
Rohan it's so quiet
fruits still open that's a good sign
there is my friend we are going to the
shop don't need to look left and right
there's no cars
hello I'm well are you well okay your
suitcase let's go
so this is Hong Kong Road usually a very
very busy road but obviously not today
not for the foreseeable future great to
bike though one of the 6,000 taxi is
deployed
would rather not get in it though people
still queuing for the pharmacy maybe
prescriptions
this is a city and the population bigger
than London and it is empty I moved to
China almost two years ago I finished
University and I was looking for work I
got an email saying do you want to teach
in China and it's like all right I'll go
teach in China I teach English and
psychology the Christmas just gone was
my second Christmas not at home in
Ireland new year was probably more fun
it was just me and two other close
friends it was just such a fun night we
drank we played games it was just a
really nice way to bring in the new year
I remember virus rumors I think it was
the 31st of December there was a fish
market people who worked at the fish
market they were all taken to a hospital
but my dad messaged me about it because
he was reading the newspaper he sent me
a picture and it said SARS outbreak
something in China and I was like oh
I've heard of that no need to worry and
then my mother messaged me saying
because she's hearing about it now in
the news and I'm like don't worry don't
worry no need to worry it's nothing just
a little thing in a fish market and look
how wrong I was just like a horror
zombies where there's no one on the
streets it's so strange so surreal but
that is something I never expected to
see
the punishment for driving is a fine and
potentially losing your license so these
people must have good reason to be
driving where do you go
little puppy he's so cute but we're not
going to risk going near him
well I was cute what is this eight lanes
ten lanes ten Lane Road we were worried
but it is open we have arrived
Carrefour
empty shopping center
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the supermarket's are full of stuff
fruit and veg all fresh stuff oh well
stocked yeah I love to see it
I don't even know what that is some sort
of maybe a stingray better everyone
still vying meat produce you gotta miss
for a while who loves ripped whatever
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yeah yeah we both got the same idea
bye-bye
eggs check everything else check check
check
let's go self checkout only and we are
gonna be a while
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okay okay
this year we have finished in the shop
heavy suitcase
now back out to a deserted city first we
have an update on the spread of the
deadly coronavirus there are now calls
for the federal government to take
drastic measures 56 people have died so
far on the front line of a new viral
epidemic
Wuhan is a city now and lockdown cut off
from the rest of the world
I'm just making dinner good a pasta bit
of corn couple hot dogs probably some
fruits as well and some peanuts just for
a bit of protein like I said you're a
very basic meal
this isn't Gordon Ramsay Kitchen
Nightmares
this is all stuff I bought the other day
at Carrefour yeah yeah but a pasta
couple hot dogs thrown in as well lovely
job I went to put on a hoodie because
it's a bit chilly
damn that did not go up a bit huh bow
her carry girls actually I don't know if
I'm gonna say that never mind it's not
carry girls just standard Chinese butter
there was a job so this is where I have
been quarantined lovely apartment
there's a puzzle of Totoro my friend
from the shopping video she did that on
Christmas Day yeah the bedroom and my
balcony where I would usually hang up
washing and lovely lovely view of Rohan
listen to the silence of a city of 10
million
hundreds of foreigners in luhan are
returning home France and Australia have
ordered evacuations 100 or so Americans
from arriving at a military Air Force
Base the first Japanese give a qyz
arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday morning
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quite a lot of developments today
there's many many talks about
evacuations I'm not going to leave if
the risk to others is great I don't make
the decision to make the evacuation but
if it is an option I think it makes
sense to take it because we don't know
how this situation will develop you're
constantly getting updates that was that
that's not my screensaver by the way
that's just what happens just random
stuff I know that looks weird like I
don't know I might be infected right now
I have no idea because of the long
incubation time I don't think I am I
think I'm okay but we can't take that
risk also it's my birthday
what a fun birthday in quarantine
Wuhan it's what time is it nine o'clock
in the PM so I think after almost a week
of quarantine I deserve a birthday beer
I thought Corona
maybe not given the situation so I went
with a different beer at Corona there
you go to good health
good evening the death toll increases
the virus may be spreading even faster
than previously thought
corona virus has gone global there is no
cure or no vaccines confirmed cases are
now just under 6,000 the death toll has
now jumped to over a hundred I'm not
scared
no no no I'm not scared and when I go to
bed your mind starts to wander the way
all you know when you're going to bed
and you can't sleep you just start to
think crazy things but try not to think
about it it's not time to worry yet not
for me I'm not infected as far as I know
I just try not to worry about hating if
I worry about it now and then it happens
then I've suffered twice I've suffered
when I worried and I suffer when it
happens so no point worrying
good evening the World Health
Organization has declared the corona
virus outbreak in China a global health
emergency the United Kingdom government
has unveiled plans to bring back Britain
stranded in China there is a seat for me
on the British evacuation flight it's
going to fly into an RAF base and then
after that there will be quarantine for
two weeks so that's what I've always
wanted if I was to be evacuated yeah
it's still a very hard decision to leave
this life behind because there's just
always the worry that you won't get it
back and obviously this is mm my house
is where I live so that is really
affecting my decision but overall I
think the health you got to think of
your health so that's what I'm doing
we're here
we're here at the toll bridge before you
go to the airport taking names making
sure everyone's on the list
Chinese watching everything's going
smoothly getting ready to go oh okay I
shall get on the bus let's go home
3 a.m. who waited on that bus for foof
over 4 hours
I think now we're doing health checks
yeah this is the British flight
evacuation flight I think it's also the
Spanish one because I think it goes to
England first and then Madrid and any
Irish who are leaving like myself I'm
not going yellow we're on this flight
too and we'll be quarantined in England
yeah getting our tickets for the plane
strange system but no other way to do it
it looks like our boy getting us out on
the evacuation playing with British and
Spanish and a few other nationalities so
as you come onto the plane you're given
a seat number they write down your name
and your seat it's just so if the
infection spreads on this flight maybe I
get infected because I'm sitting beside
this person who got infected no one else
is infected so you know we can narrow it
down I asked the guy who was given the
seats for legroom he gave me like a
lovely lovely bit of legroom but it came
at a price and that price is and by the
toilets so I don't know if that
increases my chances of being infected
majora doesn't help
none of the last week none of those days
I've felt like real days so this also
doesn't feel like a real day if you know
what I mean so the tiredness kind of
just escapes you because just none of
this feels real okay this would be my
last video for a while I'll let you know
if there's any more updates more than 80
Britons have been flown back from Wuhan
in China
waiting for the McBride's Naughton were
medics and police and a fleet of
horsemen branded poaches as if the scene
wasn't already apocalyptic enough
they're going to be kept in quarantine
away from their family for the next
fourteen days
almost there no traffic says stop first
eighty-three Britons at area Park
Hospital in the world will be kept in
quarantine in a separate accommodation
block
I have arrived quarantine all right so
just arrived at quarantine in the world
dice you know I was we were all bored we
had no idea what to expect to know if it
would be like an actual hospital but I
think I think this is nurses
accommodation my room for the next two
weeks quarantine all right like that's
all right grant grant some allergy free
sweet-and-sour chicken
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shouldn't be too hard for two weeks I
don't know if you can see those people
they know we're here
they know we're here having a look yeah
I know
lovely friendly neighbors it's close to
40 hours anyway since I left my
apartment hopefully that's not the last
time I see it hopefully I get to go back
when this is all over but yeah
definitely
need a shower that's one good thing
about the masks or you can't smell
anyone else even though we've all we
probably all smell disgusting probably a
good choice to come home let's just hope
we can all get through this and let's
hope everyone in Wuhan stays well and
the people that didn't come home and the
Chinese people that live there hopefully
everyone will be okay
this is where we are for the next two
weeks no one's out
until we're all clear so that's exactly
what we wanted
here we see all the cards and flowers
people have been sending in the
community special shout out to cheese
era and talam for some lovely drawings
bit of entertainment as well grant I've
been told actually I've been wearing the
mask kind of upside down summer times in
the video here I'll show what I was
doing was wearing it like this I thought
I don't read Chinese I thought maybe
that's that tough I was wearing it like
that but stupidly obviously you use the
little wire you put it on the right way
don't do stupid things like I did wear
the mask the right way
constantly wash your hands make sure
you've got all that if you're worried
about the virus yourself anywhere in the
world just got a shipment of deliveries
lovely this this is the most important
thing now we can stay in quarantine for
as long as necessary doesn't matter if
we get sick we'd have it the cure right
here there's no cards in the thing I'll
probably do a little video of Jaron
poker only when I have good cards then
tell your mom hi for us she raised a
good man god bless her god bless us all
a god bless us all in this situation as
far as I'm aware none of us are showing
symptoms were all ground but even so I
sneeze like three times yesterday and
was like
no this is it lovely now I will turn
this into a delicious breakfast sandwich
not this though this is this is handsome
t'other oh good lord
that baby Emily dropped me off a package
she sent me
Irish snacks Irish snacks and you love
to see it and thank you so much to Emily
for that
our last night Wednesday will also be a
poker night and I think on that night a
lot of people will come just to enjoy
last night well hopefully our last night
anyway hey are you recording out you
know I can edit this in post
I've actually won't actually edit out me
asking to be recording at midday today
it'll be 14 days since we arrived so
time to go home is the earnest evocative
I've gotta eat about so badly this is
their least I've woken up on days
I know nine o'clock is gnarly but it has
been a while since I saw a nine o'clock
okay I'm packed hello
time to go gran just checking under the
bed so I haven't put this junket on in
two weeks this is the junket I came in
and I look in the pocket oh good time of
day taking out the mask
see it out we're out mask up oh well oh
there they are a proper press no no look
it's the mother there she is now hello
mother hi Ben capita here in Liverpool
with
my mother I would be foreign team with
the famous pints all as well
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