CoronaVirus: Our Heroic Chinese Colleagues, Brothers, & Sisters

Editor’s Note:

The following pictures are very poignant and hard hitting.  They are of us- people- the Chinese people- our brothers and sisters.  What I see when I look at these images is not panic or fear, it is a resolute and concise determination to confront our fear and defeat not an unknown enemy– rather another disease that tries to slap us down- but will never defeat our human will to stand up and survive.  It’s what we do.

Our world is too small, our borders too porous to stop an unseen and microscopically opportunistic organism.  No nation stands alone here is really what I am trying to say.

China- We salute your intrepid ingenuity and bravery!

Look at the pictures below- and maybe we can learn from our Chinese Colleagues, Brothers, & Sisters.

God Bless and God Speed 🙂

We may all need to start wearing masks ?

I hope Not

Passengers from oversea are checked by thermography device at Kansai Airport in Osaka Prefecture on Jan. 23, 2020, prior to China’s Lunar New Year holiday. A total approximately 3 billion Chinese people travel around the nation and visit overseas during the holiday. Patient infected with a new coronavirus that has been linked pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan (China) is spreading all over the world. Wuhan City decided to close Wuhan Airport from 10am on the same day. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

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Workers manufacture protective face masks in a factory, as face mask stocks run low amid the outbreak of coronavirus, in Handan, Hebei Province, China, 23 January 2020. The outbreak of coronavirus has so far claimed 17 lives and infected more than 550 others, according to media reports. Authorities in Wuhan announced on 23 January, a complete travel ban on residents of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.
Factories step up production of face masks amid coronavirus outbreak in China, Handan – 23 Jan 2020

Mandatory Credit: Photo by STRINGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10536688a)
Workers manufacture protective face masks in a factory, as face mask stocks run low amid the outbreak of coronavirus, in Handan, Hebei Province, China, 23 January 2020. The outbreak of coronavirus has so far claimed 17 lives and infected more than 550 others, according to media reports. Authorities in Wuhan announced on 23 January, a complete travel ban on residents of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.
Factories step up production of face masks amid coronavirus outbreak in China, Handan – 23 Jan 2020

An employee sprays disinfectant on a train as a precaution against a new coronavirus at Suseo Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures’ potential for success is uncertain. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

BEIJING, CHINA – JANUARY 26: A Chinese man wears protective mask, goggles and coat as he stands in a nearly empty street during the Chinese New Year holiday on January 26, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 2000 in mainland China Sunday as health officials locked down the city of Wuhan earlier in the week in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human. In an unprecedented move, Chinese authorities put travel restrictions on the city which is the epicentre of the virus and neighbouring municipalities affecting tens of millions of people. The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to at least 56 on Sunday and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

People with face masks walk pass a large portrait of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on January 27, 2020. – Thailand has detected eight Coronavirus cases so far — three of whom are receiving treatment in hospital and five of whom have been discharged, according to a statement from Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

WUHAN, CHINA – JANUARY 27: (CHINA-OUT) Two residents walk in an empty Jiangtan park on January 27, 2020 in Wuhan, China. As the death toll from the coronavirus reaches 80 in China with over 2700 confirmed cases, the city remains on lockdown for a fourth day. (Photo by Getty Images)

In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House via Yonhap News Agency, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, center, wears a mask to inspect the National Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Moon on Tuesday visited the medical center in Seoul amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus. (South Korea Presidential Blue House/Yonhap via AP)

(200129) — BEIJING, Jan. 29, 2020 (Xinhua) — Lyu Jun (L), a member of a medical team leaving for Wuhan of Hubei Province, says goodbye to his family at Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Fei) (Photo by Xinhua/Sipa USA)

Local Chinese residents wearing face masks for prevention of the new coronavirus and pneumonia wait in a long queue near a medical appliance store to buy surgical face masks during the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival holiday in Nanning City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on January 29th, 2020. (Photo by Peng Huan / Costfoto/Sipa USA)

A Chinese volunteer wearing the protective clothing disinfects a street for prevention of the new coronavirus and pneumonia during the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival holiday in Dongxinzhuang Village, Qingdao City, east China’s Shandong Province on January 29th, 2020. (Photo by Yu Fangping / Costfoto/Sipa USA)

BEIJING, CHINA – JANUARY 30: Chinese children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 7000 in mainland China Thursday as the country continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human. In an unprecedented move, Chinese authorities put travel restrictions on the city which is the epicentre of the virus and neighbouring municipalities affecting tens of millions of people. The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to over 170 on Thursday, mostly in Hubei province, and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and France. The World Health Organization has warned all governments to be on alert, and its emergency committee is to meet later on Thursday to decide whether to declare a global health emergency. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Passengers wear protective masks as theyb wait to board a train at Lo Wu Station, operated by MTR Corp., near the Lo Wu border crossing with the mainland in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The World Health Organization called a meeting of its Emergency Committee Thursday to consider issuing a global alarm as the death toll from the spreading coronavirus rose to 170. Photographer: Ivan Abreu/Bloomberg via Getty Images