Breaking News: Quarantine Hotel Collapses

Because nothing improves your COVID-19 quarantine like your hotel collapsing. :smack:

No fatalities reported at this time.

The hotel is only about two years old.

A picture:

I think it obvious there will lots of fatalities.

I’ve seen time-lapse videos from China in which they built hospitals, to treat corona virus patients, in a week. I wouldn’t want to stay in a building like that. I’m not surprised a Chinese building fell down.

The buildings I saw were basically tents on poured concrete.

There wasn’t an earthquake in the area, was there? That part, I haven’t heard, but I bet that building didn’t meet any kind of modern building codes. :frowning:

Yeah, and that’ll be good for Xi. He can blame those deaths on the collapse, not the virus.

Do they still call it Quarantine when you’re buried under tons of rubble?

I expect there were modern building codes in place–but that the owners or builders paid off corrupt building inspectors to ignore them.

Or just didn’t bother to have them inspected.