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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuoshenshan Hospital has been built in Wuhan - built in matter of days (time lapse video)
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Previous DU thread about the start of contstruction: Wuhan, China, is scrambling to build a hospital in just 6 days to treat coronavirus patients
Afromania
(2,770 posts)If only we could manage to do things like this before the fire starts.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)ret5hd
(20,515 posts)Never mind.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)started 8 days ago, has finally completed. It will be able to host 1000 #coronavirus
patients and will start taking in patients on Monday.
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madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Shipping containers are more rectangle.
Still, mind boggling to watch.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,563 posts)But that is the Chinese way. Command an endless supply of labor and resources to accomplish a task that would seem to take years from our Westernized perspective. Will it last? Who knows?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)People tend to not realize that, up until 1970, the Reflecting Pool in the Mall was ringed with ugly temporary buildings dating back to WW1 and WW2, including walkways spanning across the pool:
underpants
(182,868 posts)A great read. He wa there as all this started in earnest.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I read that and his autobiography around the same time. Also a good read - about growing up in Wilmington, NC & breaking into the news business.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Pick two.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Thanks.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)I guess thats okay since it shouldnt be needed for too long. I bet it falls apart a year after its abandoned.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,563 posts)Nobody, but nobody has built more structures than China over the past 30 years.
The physical transformation of Southern China has been staggering, as an occasional traveler to Shenzhen and Guangzhou with Base of operations in Zhongshan. In the 90's we'd travel in area's where 2000 ft severe (angle of elevation) mountains and I'd notice that 1/2 the mountain was missing. When I asked my Chinese business partners, they laughed and said, "they got turned into roads and buildings.
Have you ever gone 50 miles and seen nothing but factories and and dormitories?
But, the building won't last forever because the foundation work probably sucked. Level, yes, deep enough for service entrances (power/gas/water/ etc), yes. Structural sound, probably not, especially if you consider earthquake potential.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)We also have the ability to change the government and toss away the republicans forever because they are corrupt dunces that instead of saving lives does everything it can to kill people
We could renew the infrastructure problems we have in weeks if the political will and the funding is there . If the political will is one that has compassion,love and pride for all the American people.
Instead of compassion for just the rich people who do nothing but steal from us all..
OAITW r.2.0
(24,563 posts)We'll need a shitload, like every able-bodied immigrant to create infrastructure on all of our major coastal cities - real walls to address climate change....or accept their loss to the USA. How many can you afford to lose? Not as many as you think.
Advantage, Putin.
PSPS
(13,613 posts)Look at how the US changed for World War II. One example: Ford was pumping out a new B-24 every hour at their Willow Run plant!
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)It was a 1,000-bed facility outside Beijing, finished in 7 days, and abandoned after the epidemic ended
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)japple
(9,838 posts)completely harden in just a few days?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Dictatorships can do stuff fast. Let's hope the hospital is structurally sound.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)Not me. First strong wind and it will probably fall down.