Huoshenshan Hospital has been built in Wuhan - built in matter of days (time lapse video)

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

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]

1. Humanity, getting shit done after it manages to set everything on fire first; since forever.

If only we could manage to do things like this before the fire starts.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. +1

[ret5hd]

2. U S A!!! U S A!!! Oh...wait.

Never mind.

[Leghorn21]

3. "finally"!

”Lastly, one of the makeshift hospitals in #Wuhan, which the construction
started 8 days ago, has finally completed. It will be able to host 1000 #coronavirus
patients and will start taking in patients on Monday.”

Link to tweet

?s=20

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Looks like it's made of shipping containers?

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I saw the modular things as more of a square.

Shipping containers are more rectangle.

Still, mind boggling to watch.

[UniteFightBack]

12. I read it was prefabricated. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Mind boggling, really.

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]

9. The US has built large-scare temporary structures during war time, especially in DC

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]

10. David Brinkley's "Washington goes to War"

A great read. He wa there as all this started in earnest.

[Dennis Donovan]

13. Great book!

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]

6. Good, fast, cheap.

Pick two.

[underpants]

11. I'd heard about this. Pretty amazing.

Thanks.

[fleur-de-lisa]

14. Impressive, even though the work is probably shoddy.

I guess that’s okay since it shouldn’t be needed for too long. I bet it falls apart a year after it’s abandoned.

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. I think it will last longer.

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]

15. Imagine if a hospital can be built in days

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]

22. Ha! You'd need immigrants who know how to work and bust their ass to do better.

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]

16. When it's "all hands," it's remarkable what can be done.

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]

17. They had built the exact same thing in 2003 during the SARS outbreak

It was a 1,000-bed facility outside Beijing, finished in 7 days, and abandoned after the epidemic ended

[iluvtennis]

18. Wow.

[japple]

19. Asking because I'm ignorant of such things: how did they get the foundation concrete to

completely harden in just a few days?

[Blue_true]

20. I bet no one demanded a building permit be filed first.

Dictatorships can do stuff fast. Let's hope the hospital is structurally sound.

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. Would you trust a hospital built in 6 days in China?

Not me. First strong wind and it will probably fall down.

[MyNameGoesHere]

24. COMMUNIST!