a hospital built in a fortnight

8th February 2020:

The new hospital in Wuhan China, built in just 2 weeks, opened its doors today to receive coronavirus patients, such is the volume of the sick and dying there from this virus.  Unprecedented.  That a hospital can be built and functioning so quickly, and that the numbers of patients affected are requiring such urgent action to be taken in this way.  I simply cannot imagine this being possible anywhere else but China..and hoping very much that the virus doesn't get too far outside of China, as not only will this hugely impact on resources anywhere in the world, but this will also mean that the world's population could be affected on the same scale as in China right now...I find myself wondering if this could actually be a reality, and quickly tell myself that China is a long way away from us here in the UK! But then it just takes one journey on a plane...I don't want to think amymore about this!