Apple Daily, a Hong Kong media, reported that people from Hubei Province are experiencing difficulties trying to live in other provinces after the outbreak of the coronavirus, as local governments have carried out efforts to gather and quarantine people who came out of Hubei.
Xiao Jun, a Hubei citizen who came to work at Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province a year ago and has stayed there since then, has been unable to find a job, simply because he is from Hubei. In the Hubei folks WeChat group that he joined, which has over 200 members, people shared their experiences of not being able to find a job in other provinces. They have also not been able to go home either (because their hometowns are locked down); many people can’t find a place to live and thus have to stay homeless at train station or on the street. Someone also shared a picture with the WeChat group: an industry region in Guangzhou erected a sign that said “Cars and People from Hubei Are not Allowed to Enter.”
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Excerpt in Chinese:
小軍加入了一個湖北老鄉的群組，200多名湖北人在群組內傾訴自己在武漢肺炎爆發後的遭遇，小軍在群組內只是一個「典型」，在外找不到工作，卻回不了家，「現在在外面都不敢說自己是湖北人。我租房的房東還沒有趕我走，還行。」小軍樂觀地說，自己還有瓦遮頭，已經算是幸運，比他可憐的人比比皆是，找不到工作是基本，有人只能露宿火車站、車庫，有人也在大街一旁搭起帳篷。
小軍發了一段自己吃泡麵的影片，希望在僅餘認同自己的群體中取暖。然後小軍問大家還剩下多少錢，「我有4,000」，有人說只有65。群組內轉載一張照片，是廣州一個工業區豎立「禁止湖北籍車牌和人士入內」的牌子，組內無人作聲。
Source: Apple Daily, March 9, 2020
https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200309/EDKMNDCKCYUS7IINCCM5YY456E/