beat Beijing again year of the rabbit. they are back Office workers to Guomaoforeigners flock to Sanlitun barshipsters and old people intersect gulou and was martyred in traffic jams throughout the city. Two problems had plagued him for months.
Spring Festival that follows lunar new year are the main holidays. Chinese Calendar. The largest migration in history in peacetime means a massive migration to Beijing. The capital is a large city of 20 million inhabitants in the style of Madrid. Shanghai feels like Barcelona more cosmopolitan. “Lao Pekingese” or “former Pekingese” locals claim to oppose flooding neighbors. The latter leaves him on vacation to join his family. times introspection on long walks due to the lack of leisure activities. Few restaurants endure, and almost always with backup cooks who recommend taking refuge in the home kitchen.
The end of the zero covid policy had already emptied the streets in mid-December. The dams that restrained the pandemic for three years collapsed and the city was flooded. infection tsunami. We had not heard of a recent case and within a few days all our acquaintances had passed away. Pekingese did not leave their homes to recover from or escape from the virus, except for some young people who went to greet them. naked stuffedAfter filling the fridge for a week for convalescence. This misleading context of regime change and the icy winds of a harsh winter, even by local standards, drove them to flee.
Airplanes with access controls removed were major contagions. You sit down with the certainty of the inevitable, knowing that most of the passengers you will be sharing the next few hours with in a confined space are positive. Even two superimposed masks did not save me from the virus.
Beijing and Clement
The zero covid policy was: tolerant of Beijing. Capital was never limited and only a few irritating buds in vain they provoked forced purchases. The policy was effective in China for two years. Its beauty lay in its simplicity: if there were a dozen cases in a city, it would be closed for a week and the epidemic would be gone. The rest of the country continued to operate without hindrance. “We saved old normal”, we answered when they called us from Spain with quarantines, hopeless cycles of closing and opening, and a Christmas without family members.
It’s not the time or the place to embrace a zero covid policy, so we’ll shorten it. protected normalcy and saved lives. The United States, which is home to a quarter of China’s population, recorded 1.2 million deaths. China corresponds to almost five, but the most pessimistic scientific calculations speak of one. The remaining four million are responding to the zero covid policy. With 90% of the population vaccinated and with less harmful variants, the way the virus is now conquering you is different than it was at the start of the pandemic.
But politics has recalled strikers who have survived the last dribble in recent months. It has already been proven to be useless. more infectious variants. City quarantines lasted for weeks or months before the epidemic subsided, and domestic travel turned into a minefield. They made it necessary to find out if the destination city was suffering from the infection to prevent the health code from turning red and the city of origin blocking the return. And in any case, there was no guarantee that an epidemic would not break out during his stay. Controls in Beijing, the corporate and political capital, were particularly rigorous. Pekingese did not go out or excited for a late and arbitrary return.
They seem like long-faded memories in China. Except for the masks, nothing refers to them today. dry times. It has an impact on how the Chinese have adopted coexistence with the virus after persistent propaganda work. Everyone wore masks on that take-off flight in December; On the way back to Beijing, just a couple. Chinese customs officials are already handling foreigners’ luggage without fear of contamination, and they have closed those long sleeved years with the cheerful and harmless smuggling of returnees.
We are starting a new year in China under rabbit protection, Spring is already on the horizon and we are facing new informative challenges and have no regrets except regret. stash of ham, cheese and chorizos looted at the airport.