Posted on 01/27/2020 11:32:20 AM PST by 11th_VA
[[[A simple dog park was constructed in a nearby town and it took city workers 7 or 8 months.]]]
As my dear departed Grandpa used to say, “What the hell are you doing? Making love to it?”
Awesome! I love this country!
I thought of that too, but the problem there is that the ghost cities are nowhere near the plague zone.
Not even rural Chinese administrators are stupid enough to want to transport plague victims en masse across their country.
As another poster said, China intends to burn the structures to the ground when the virus has subsided rather than even try to decontaminate the structures. Literally a disposable hospital, intended from the start, and not a bad idea when dealing with nasty viruses.
Note that the building remained intact after falling over.
Most of the windows appear unbroken.
The building appeared to have mostly survived the fall, very impressive.
Placing the building on unstable ground and the nearby river undermining it... NOT GOOD.
https://www.bestonlineengineeringdegree.com/the-10-worst-high-rise-building-collapses-in-history/
Chinese environmental impact studies go real quick.
I suspect this is going to be a massive tent building, with one level and cots everywhere.
We’ll see what it turns out to be.
It may have four walls with a constructed roof. I wouldn’t bet on that.
That was my thought. Why not clear out an apartment block and house them in there?
The building is a prefabricated building, by the way.
Amazing! Huoshenshan Hospital’s 1st building completed in 16 hours!
Source:Globaltimes.cn Published: 2020/1/27 17:12:59
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177886.shtml
I think the Empire State Building went up in about 14 months.
The Pentagon took about 16 months, most or all during wartime too.
Far away, huh?
And they’re probably not in the best shape to move.
And then the flight crew...
I guess this isn’t going to be an incredibly expensive structure to build using the finest materials.
That kinda makes sense.
I think they’re hoping not to need it for years.
I suspect what is being called a hospital will be more likely simply a quarantine facility.
Theater.
Building is building: you have to have plans permits etc. This crisis started mere weeks ago: planning a hospital takes months if not years.
Either it was already in the works or they are just pushing dirt around for show.
And since I doubt they have enough planes, train cars or buses configured for easy sanitization, they’d either have to spend years decontaminating all the vehicles or burn *those*.
I think all of us are hoping they don’t need it for more than part of this year.
It’s prefabs. Much like mobile homes and the like - if you’re the government, the prefabs obviate all but “where do we park these and how do we hook them up” plans and since it’s the Chinese government, they don’t have to get permits. You can set those up in short order in a public park or even a mall parking lot, etc.
Agreed!
2000 beds
While Hong Kong authorities estimate 44,000 cases and doubling every 6 days
Speaking of ghost cities, Ordos now has over 2 million people in it and was built for low density. Pudong, population 5,599,600.
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