Posted on 02/20/2020 7:37:37 PM PST by NorseViking
Ukraines effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the new virus outbreak was plunged into chaos on Thursday as local residents hurled stones at buses carrying the evacuees and engaged in violent clashes with police.
The vehicles were finally able to reach the designated place of quarantine after hours of clashes. The masked evacuees, exhausted by the long journey, peeked through shattered bus windows as they drove slowly under heavy police escort.
Since the early morning, several hundred residents of the village of Novi Sanzhary in Ukraines central Poltava region had barricaded the road to a sanitarium intended to host the evacuees, fearing that they could become infected.
The Ukrainian authorities say all passengers on board had been screened twice for the virus before being allowed to fly, but that was not enough to pacify the protesters.
Isnt there any other place in Ukraine that can host 50 people, that is located in more or less remote villages or in far-off areas where there is no threat to population? queried resident Yuriy Dzyubenko.
One protester was heard suggesting they should be kept at Chernobyl, the site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster in 1986. Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraines president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.
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Ivan the plumber!!!
“Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraines president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.”
Yep. We’re only ever a few days from anarchy, given the right conditions.
[One protester was heard suggesting they should be kept at Chernobyl, the site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster in 1986. Another suggested taking them to parliament, while another said Zelenskiy, Ukraines president, should house them himself if he really believed there was no danger.]
I’m rather surprised we haven’t seen some of this before now.
I hope that’s not what is ahead.
Half expected to see Asians targeted soon.
With 15 cases in the nation, I hope folks don’t lose it.
Bring Out Your Dead
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*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
The people are smarter than the government.
So these protesters SMASHED THE WINDOWS of a bus carrying people the protesters believed might be infected. The stupidly of angry people can be incomprehensible.
I don’t want to denigrate the intelligence of Ukrainians but ... is really a good idea to break the windows out of buses loaded with people who might be carrying a deadly virus?
What was their next move going to be? Drag them out of the buses and beat them bloody with axe handles? Think, people!
Yes, and that was the second name. Originally it was called Gorky-400: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3051619/china-wasnt-original-villain-book-predicting-coronavirus
I'm surprised Ukraine hasn't landed people on Mars with all the rocket scientists there.
Ukraine sounds like the eurasian version of toothless hillbillies.
Because breaking the glass keeping the virus from spreading out from the vehicle is SUCH a good idea.
The mob mind.
Isn’t it wonderful?
That’s why I like living alone. :)
Not surprising....Ukrainians doing what Ukrainians do.
Ukraine’s always on the edge of anarchy...it’s how they live....with or without conditions..
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