What the Chinese Received From Coronavirus
A question was posted on Zhihu, the Chinese Quora. The answers were heart-rending and unexpected; and even Trump surprised.
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5 min readFeb 9, 2020
Amidst the gloom and doom, a Chinese netizen asked the following question on Zhihu, the Chinese Quora:
“What have you received from this coronavirus epidemic?”
At the time of writing, the question received 15m views, 24k followers and 11k responses.
The following are highlights of some the answers given by the Chinese, many of whom are locked down in their homes and quarantined cities.
Doctors and nurses barred from home by neighbors, children ostracized
Right at the front line of the epidemic battle are the tens of thousands of doctors and nurses treating infected patients. But what some of them received in return was discrimination from neighbors and friends.
One particular doctor shared a phenomenon that was experienced by many colleagues across China.
