Coronavirus & Me: Ben Kavanagh’s journey - from quarantine in Wuhan to Wirral

Look, it's the mother, there it is now, hello mother, it could be infected right now. I have no idea of ​​another beautiful day in

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, Rohan ever. I've been

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d well before. I spoke with Ben Cavanaugh, who is from Island and works as a teacher on the busy streets of Wuhan. The number one trending on YouTube in the world is my fat face oh my god hello oh yeah my name is Ben Cavanaugh I live in Wuhan and today I'm going to the store a mask another mask apparently this mask It doesn't really work. a lot but two masks are always better than one I hope nothing enters my mouth I forget the most important thing and the silliest thing is fine oh my God I have a big backpack I have a big suitcase okay, let's go to the store don't wait to find me with someone today I'm not going to touch them with my hand I'm just going to knee them I love it no one around another beautiful day in quarantine Rohan is so calm the fruits still open that's a good sign there it is my friend we are To go to the store, no you need to look left and right, there are no cars.

Hello, I'm fine, are you okay, okay, your suitcase, come on, so this is Hong Kong Road, it's usually a busy road, but obviously not today or in the foreseeable future. Great for cycling, although there are one of the 6,000 taxis deployed. I would prefer not to get on it, although people are still lining up for the pharmacy, maybe prescriptions. This is a city and the population is larger than London and it is empty. I moved to China almost two years ago. I finished. In college and I was looking for a job, I got an email that said, do you want to teach in China?

And it's OK. I'm going to teach in China. I teach English and psychology. The Christmas that just passed was my second Christmas. I'm not at home in Ireland. The year was probably more fun, it was just me and two other close friends. It was a really fun night, we drank, we played, it was a really nice way to ring in the new year. I remember the virus rumors. I think it was the 31st of In December there was a fish market people who worked at the fish market were all taken to a hospital but my dad sent me a message about it because he was reading the newspaper he sent me a photo and it said SARS outbreak something in China and I was like oh I heard about that, no need to worry and then my mom texted me saying that because now she found out on the news and I said don't worry, don't worry, no need to worry, it's nothing, just a small thing. in a fish market and look how wrong I was, like a zombie horror where there is no one on the streets, it's so strange, so surreal, but that's something I never expected to see.

The punishment for driving is a fine and potentially losing your license, so these. people must have good reasons to drive, where are you going puppy, he's so cute, but we're not going to risk going near him? Well, it was nice, what's this eight lanes, ten lanes, ten lanes? We were worried, but it's open. Carrefour has arrived shopping center empty the supermarkets are full of fruits and vegetables everything fresh oh well stocked yes I love seeing it I don't even know what that is maybe a stripe better everyone is still competing to produce meat you have to I miss for a while who loves it rip whatever, yeah, yeah, we both have the same idea, bye, eggs, check everything else, check, check, check, let's just go to self-checkout and we'll be there for a while, okay, okay, this year we're done in the store.

Heavy suitcase. now we return to a deserted city first we have an update on the spread of the deadly

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now there are calls for the federal government to take drastic measures 56 people have died so far on the front lines of a new viral epidemic Wuhan is a city Now that the lockdown It's isolated from the rest of the world, I'm just making a nice dinner, some pasta, some corn, a couple hot dogs, probably some fruit and some peanuts too, just to get some protein, like I said, you're a very basic meal. This is not Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares, these are all things I bought the other day in Carrefour, yes, yes, but also a couple of pasta hot dogs.

Lovely job, I went to put on a hoodie because it's a bit cold, damn that didn't work. up a little huh, bend over for take girls, I actually don't know if I'm going to say that, nevermind, it's not take girls, just standard Chinese butter, there was a job, so this is where they quarantined me. Beautiful apartment, there is a Totoro puzzle. my friend from the shopping video, she did that on Christmas day, yes, the bedroom and my balcony where I usually hung the clothes and the beautiful view of Rohan, I hear the silence of a city of 10 million, hundreds of foreigners in Luhan are returning home, France. and Australia have ordered evacuations.

Approximately 100 Americans arrived at an Air Force military base. The first Japanese, tell me a qyz, arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday morning. Many events today. There are many conversations about evacuations. I will not leave if the risk to others is great. I'm not making the decision to evacuate, but if it's an option, I think it makes sense to make it because we don't know how this situation will play out. You constantly receive updates. By the way, that's not my screen protector. That's just what happens, random things. I know it looks weird. I don't know. You could be infected right now.

I have no idea because of the long incubation time. I don't think he is. Believe. I'm fine, but we can't take that risk. Plus, it's my birthday. What a fun quarantine birthday. Wuhan. What time is nine at night? So I think after almost a week of quarantine, I deserve a birthday beer. I thought Corona maybe not given the situation, so I went with a different beer than Corona, there you go, good health, good night, the number of deaths is increasing, the virus may be spreading even faster than previously thought. The corona virus has gone global, there is no cure and no vaccines.

Confirmed cases are now just under 6,000, the death toll has risen to more than a hundred. I'm not afraid, no, no, no, I'm not afraid, and when I go to bed, your mind starts to wander along the way, all you know when you're there. you go to bed and you can't sleep you just start thinking crazy things but try not to think about it it's not time to worry about it yet not about me i'm not infected as far as i know i just try not to worry about hating if i worry about it from time to time it happens so I have suffered twice I have suffered when I was worried and I suffer when it happens so there is no point in worrying good evening the World Health Organization has declared the

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outbreak in China a global health problem emergency, the government of the United Kingdom has revealed plans to bring back Britain stranded in China.

There's a seat for me on the British evacuation flight that's flying to an RAF base and then there will be quarantine for two weeks, so that's what I'm going to do. I've always wanted to be evacuated, yes it's still a very difficult decision to leave this life behind because there's always the worry that you won't get it back and obviously this is where I live so that's really how it is. affecting my decision but in general I think health you have to think about your health so that's what I'm doing we're here we're here on the toll bridge before we go to the airport taking names making sure everyone is on the list Chinese watching that everything is going well getting ready to leave oh, okay, I'll get on the bus, let's go home at 3 a.m. m., who waited on that bus for over 4 hours, I think we are doing health checks now, yes this is the evacuation flight of the British flight I think.

It is also the Spanish one because I think he goes first to England and then to Madrid and to any Irishman who leaves like me. I'm not going to turn yellow, we are also on this flight and we will be quarantined in England, yes, buying our tickets for The plane system is strange, but there is no other way to do it. Looks like our guy got us out in the evacuation. He played with British, Spanish and some other nationalities. When you get on the plane they give you a seat number and they write you down. name and your seat is like this, if the infection spreads on this flight, maybe I will get infected because I am sitting next to this person who got infected, no one else is infected, so you know we can reduce it.

I asked the guy who got the seats for legroom, he gave me nice, lovely legroom, but it came at a price and that price is and next to the bathrooms so I don't know if that increases my chances of infect me Majora doesn't help any of the latter. week none of those days have felt like real days so this doesn't feel like a real day either if you know what I mean so the tiredness escapes you because none of this feels really good this would be my last video for a while time I will let you know if there are more updates.

More than 80 Britons have returned by plane from Wuhan in China awaiting McBride. Naughton were doctors and police and a fleet of horsemen branded as poachers as if the scene weren't already apocalyptic enough. They will be kept in quarantine away from their family for the next fourteen days. There is almost no traffic. He says let him stop first. Eighty-three Britons in the world's Park Hospital area will be quarantined in a separate accommodation block. I reached quarantine, so I just reached quarantine in the world. He says you know he was. We were all bored. We had no idea what to expect to see if it would be like a real hospital, but I think this is the nurses' quarters.

My room. for the next two weeks, quarantine, okay, grant me some allergy-free sweet and sour chicken, it shouldn't be too difficult for two weeks. I don't know if you can see those people, they know we're here. I know we're here taking a look, yes I know some lovely friendly neighbors, anyway it's been about 40 hours since I left my apartment. I hope it's not the last time I see him. I hope I can come back when this is all over but yeah I definitely need a shower that's a good thing about masks or you can't smell anyone else even though we all probably all smell gross it's probably a good option to go home let's hope May we all get through this and hopefully everyone in Wuhan stays Well, and the people who didn't come home and the Chinese who live there, I hope everyone is okay.

This is where we will be for the next two weeks, no one will leave until we are all clean, so that is exactly what we wanted. We see here. all the cards and flowers people have been sending to the community, a special thanks to Cheese Era and Talam for some lovely drawings, a bit of entertainment, plus Grant, I've been told I've actually been wearing my mask backwards during the summers. In the video here I'll show what I was doing, using it like this. I thought you didn't read Chinese. I thought maybe it was that difficult. I was using it like that, but stupidly, obviously, you use the little cable that you put on the right. way don't do stupid things like i wear the mask the right way wash your hands constantly make sure you have all that if you're worried about the virus anywhere in the world just received a lovely delivery shipment this this is the most important thing now we can stay in quarantine as long as necessary it doesn't matter if we get sick we would have the cure right here no cards in the thing I will probably make a little Jaron poker video just when I have good cards so tell your mom hello for us she raised to a good man, God bless her, God bless us all, God bless us all in this situation, as far as I know, none of us show symptoms, they were all sick, but Still, yesterday I sneezed like three times and said : "No, this is lovely, now I'm going to turn this into a delicious breakfast sandwich, no, this, although this is, it's beautiful, the other one, oh my god, that baby Emily left me a package that she sent." yo Irish snacks Irish snacks and you love seeing it and thank you so much to Emily because our last night on Wednesday will also be a poker night and I think that night a lot of people will come just to enjoy last night well I hope our last night anyway Hey, are you recording?

You know I can edit this in the post. Actually, I won't edit it. I asked to record today at noon. It's been 14 days since we arrived, so it's time to go home. seriously evocative I have to eat so much this is the minimum I've woken up in days I know nine o'clock is gnarly but it's been a while since I saw nine o'clock okay I'm already packed hello time to go grandma just I check under the bed, so I haven't worn this curd in two weeks. this is the curd I walked in and look in my pocket, oh good time of day, taking out the mask, look at it, we ran out of the mask. up oh well oh there they are a proper press no don't look it's the mother there she is now hello mother hello Ben capita here in Liverpool with my mother I would be a foreign team with the famous pints everyone too you