freedom at midnight as the lockdown was
lifted Wuhan put on a light show and the
people breathed after 11 weeks in which
none was allowed to leave the city and
many were confined to their homes
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then they got out of town as quickly as
they could
many by car before sunrise some by rail
they had to queue for a temperature
check at the station before catching the
first train out the 6:25 to Beijing
others went by plane
they had three temperature checks before
embarking no one is allowed to leave
Wuhan unless they have a green QR code
on their app to show their health status
you mean tomorrow
how are you dodging here to tomorrow's
an address it's awful more
can you sign if you're - a little clumsy
on us you mean you're gonna watch your
butt despite today's triumphal
propaganda sharing health workers
returning to their hometowns doubts
remain over how the Chinese Communist
Party handled the outbreak in wolfman
where the pandemic started after
initially punishing local doctors who
raised the alarm on December the 31st
China notified the w-h-o of an unknown
illness and shut down the suspected
source Wuhan Swan and seafood market by
mid-january all their cases were
spreading in China and abroad the
authorities denied evidence of
human-to-human transmission then the
Wuhan authorities organized Chinese New
Year celebrations which thousands
attended less than a week later as cases
multiplied the city was locked down last
weekend what little traffic there was
came to a halt a substitute for the
traditional annual ceremony of sweeping
the ancestors tombs some were mourning
the health staff who perished including
dr. Lee wen Yang who was penalized for
going public about covered 19 and who
later died of it some Wuhan residents
have now been allowed to collect the
ashes of their relatives although the
official death toll for Wuhan is just
over 2,500 Chinese reporters saw more
than 5,000 urns delivered to one funeral
home sparking suspicion that the real
number of dead is far higher
the Chinese Communist Party presents its
rapid building of new hospitals and
draconian lockdown and the subsequent
decline in infection in Wuhan has a
triumph for its system of government but
Wuhan is a city traumatized by grief
it's people living in fear that there
may yet be a second wave