# Breaking News: Quarantine Hotel Collapses **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067 "2020-03-07T21:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/1 "2020-03-07T21:34:34Z")
[Because nothing improves your COVID-19 quarantine like your hotel collapsing](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/china/china-coronavirus-hotel-collapse/index.html). :smack: No fatalities reported at this time. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/2 "2020-03-07T23:01:34Z")
The hotel is only about two years old. A picture: [![](https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4tKOk5YVE9Q/v1/1000x-1.jpg) ](https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4tKOk5YVE9Q/v1/1000x-1.jpg) I think it obvious there will lots of fatalities. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/3 "2020-03-07T23:07:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/4 "2020-03-08T00:29:00Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/5 "2020-03-08T02:18:27Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > The hotel is only about two years old. > > A picture: > [https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4tKOk5YVE9Q/v1/1000x-1.jpg](https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4tKOk5YVE9Q/v1/1000x-1.jpg) > > I think it obvious there will lots of fatalities. Yeah, and that’ll be good for Xi. He can blame those deaths on the collapse, not the virus. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/6 "2020-03-08T02:59:04Z")
Do they still call it Quarantine when you’re buried under tons of rubble? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/7 "2020-03-08T03:34:18Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > but I bet that building didn’t meet any kind of modern building codes. ☹ I expect there were modern building codes in place–but that the owners or builders paid off corrupt building inspectors to ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-quarantine-hotel-collapses/849067/8 "2020-03-08T04:57:37Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > 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.