Distinct feeling of hope as Covid fatigue rages

Published on: Sunday, October 25, 2020

By: Kan Yaw Chong

Text Size:

One part of the 200 long queue waiting for a jab outside the Yiwu Hospital.

EVERYONE is tired, everyone is exhausted. Everybody is Covid fatigue, lockdown fatigue, shutdown fatigue, mask fatigue, “dar-bao” fatigue, social distancing fatigue, movement restriction fatigue, job loss fatigue, pay cut fatigue, bankruptcy fatigue, politician fatigue, frog fatigue – the list of exasperation and sorrows go on and on.

We need a decisive break. We need good news – any good news! We need hope, any glimmer of hope that can take us out of this exasperation and rot is good enough.

Never mind if it is not yet perfect, so long as the spectre of rescue and immunity against this feared monster comes knocking at our door.

We need performers, any effective performers to take us out of this total misery, not wisenheimers, self-congratulatory, self-approving powers.

Breakout to hope from Yiwu City, Eastern China

That breakout to a distinct feeling of hope came from a video forwarded to me from a least expected source – Datuk Yong Teck Lee.

It features a news clip from BBC reporter Robin Brant, who witnessed hundreds of people in county-size city of Yiwu, Eastern China, queuing up at the 1.2m population city community hospital for the jab against Covid-19.

This is not a clinical trial, it is real public vaccination, Brant noted!

So the answer seems well be on the way, for how dare a community hospital embark on such a public exercise if they were unsure of safety.

It may not have been fully tested or approved yet, but the way things look, the formal go ahead does not seem far away.

BBC reporter’s eye-witness public vaccination account

But we will not say any more than just keeping to what Brant had reported from Yiwu.

Here’s the full transcript of Brant’s personal witness account:

It hasn’t been fully tested. It hasn’t been approved yet. But they came running to this queue for a place in the queue to get a vaccine.

His is the first of this community hospital.

Anyone can turn up, pay the fee (reportedly US$60 or 45 pounds sterling) to get a jab, here and now.

An unidentified businessman interviewed said:

“I feel it is worth the risk.”

He wants to travel again. His firm in West Africa is losing money everyday.

Brant continued his narration:

It wasn’t long ago that that people were queuing for Covid-19 tests but now it is the vaccine and it isn’t part of a clinical trial.

What is happening here in China is they rolled it out to the public.

You turn up, pay your money, you get your number and over there you get into the queue and then in the next few hours, that (clinic) kind of open and people are going to get the vaccine.

The queue stretches a couple of hundreds people long.

It’s first-come, first-served; and this is just China rolling out the vaccine.

This is the Communist Party with its medical first.

Is it safe? A uni student answers

But how do we know it is safe? Brant interviewed Tao, a young university student who speaks fluent English.

Tao said: “Ah, for the safety I think it is very fine because I heard the Government always says and published some news that the vaccine is very safe and it can save you from the Covid-19.”

Brant continues:

Everyone has to sign a form acknowledging the risks of taking this unapproved vaccine made by SinoVac, a State-owned firm.

‘I feel free of Covid’: Woman

This woman (See picture at top left) miled nervously when I asked if she trusted the doctors.

Inside (the clinic) she was shown the box then it was her right arm which got the jab.

Afterwards, aside many outside of this county will find this almost unbelievable.

A pile of used vaccine vials in the rubbish bin.

Brant later interviewed the woman who got her jab on her right arm.

She said: “It’s like this, after this jab, I feel I am free of the Covid-19.” She was relieved afterwards.

‘Formal go ahead’ and pledge to developing nations

The UK was in the queue in Yiwu (Union Jack on backpack of one in the queue).

When the vaccine gets formal go ahead though China has pledged to help developing nations first and likely the ones most favoured by this country.