I've been watching this a bit too closely and am probably becoming an alarmist, but I find the smartphone video footage of this outbreak both fascinating and worrying.
I've compiled a list of unverified videos from Reddit, TikTok, and Twitter. They're not journalistic, so take things with a grain of salt, but at the same time I think it's worth synthesizing into your understanding of this virus.
WARNING: these can be graphic or disturbing.
Nurse in Iran reports eight deaths. Deaths of a twenty year old with no prior health issues and two thirty year olds. Deaths are sudden and unexpected:
https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1232779487647031302...
Multiple children (around age 8) being wrapped into the same body bag by doctors wearing masks.
Mobile crematoriums:
https://twitter.com/JoeB14ck/status/1230040837255380993
Reports of elderly infected in Wuhan being stuffed into body bags for cremation while still alive. Please be aware that this is from NTD, a news organization that is the mouthpiece of the Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted by China, which is an absolutely biased source:
https://youtu.be/YpeNO8PSuyY?t=5m39s (at 5:39)
Another NTD report that claims China's death toll is being grossly under reported. An investigator supposedly calls a funeral home employee and enquiries about their daily volume. The employee finally relents (15m20s mark) and reports that their funeral home processed 127 in a single day. There are over 10 such funeral homes in Wuhan running 24/7.
https://youtu.be/-KFxCqV1fPQ?t=15m20s
Forced quarantines:
Welding families inside their homes regardless of the fire risk:
https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1226535217055313921
Those locked in Wuhan screaming at night. (Media says these are "chants of solidarity".)
I'm personally a little worried as I'm not sure why these measures would be taken over flu or a disease that only impacts the elderly (as macabre as that sounds).
I've seen other videos I can't find the links to right now:
- Chinese police patrolling the street with rifles that look like they're "hunting" for anyone not obeying the quarantine.
- Prisoners(?) tied into a lengthy chain gang and being escorted by masked guards.
- Lots of videos of people suddenly falling over dead in public. Chinese videos mostly, but also videos from Iran.
- Dead bodies lining the streets covered in sheets as the videographer drives by. This one was possibly debunked as homeless people asleep.
- Death rattle videos. These are tragic and horrifying.