Coronavirus: Dozens trapped as China quarantine hotel collapses

[Demovictory9]

https://news.yahoo.com/china-hotel-collapse-dozens-trapped-143109712.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca

About 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.

About 35 people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel, officials say.

Videos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.

It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.

[Faux pas]

1. Wonder

if that was one of the hotels they built in a week? Yikes!

[Demovictory9]

3. "The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms."

[jimfields33]

2. This is at least two collapses in a short time

I’m glad the United States doesn’t build a high rise in 10 days.

I hope those 70 get out safely.

[Demovictory9]

5. US tried to build a pedestrian bridge in two days.. collapsed killing people... last year

[jimfields33]

6. That's awful!!!!!

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7. Where was that? n/t

[Demovictory9]

8. university in Miami in 2018. "excelerated construction". Killed many. was huge story

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/miami-pedestrian-bridge-collapses-trapping-unknown-number-people-n857011

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11. I remember, but that was a 2+ year project, not 2 days.

Unless Wikipedia is way off:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse

I'm not suggesting that they did a good job, but was planned to take far longer than 2 days.

[Demovictory9]

4. pics from daily fail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8086077/Hotel-China-holding-coronavirus-victims-quarantine-collapses.html

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9. Kick

[Nitram]

10. China developed infrastrucure at a breakneck speed to meet quotas and state-imposed deadlines.

The result has often been shoddy construction, and no regulatory oversight. Sort of what we'd get in the US if Trump got a second term.