Read on Twitter
Some friends from Wuhan are on a high-speed train to Shanghai and we're planning to get brunch tomorrow.
The idea that the US could open up the economy, or fight COVID-19, but not both, was such a wrong-headed idea.
China's 99% back to normal. You have to wear a mask on the metro, but that's it. I mean technically your should in stores, taxis, etc.. but that's about 50/50 at this point.
But no one is leaving. Where else on earth has Covid-19 contained? New Zealand? Everyone is staying in China, and spending money in China.
Which means it's super-charging the domestic recovery. If you can't go overseas, or shop overseas, or leave the country, you spend money at home.
For a while people were reluctant to travel. Maybe there's an outbreak and you're exposed. Or you're not exposed, but you have to quarantine because you were in that area.
But we see a cluster in Qingdao, over the holiday, and it seems like no tourists were affected at all.
Anyone travelling back needs a negative test, and a negative antibody test, they get tested here, they do central quarantine here. Customs is checking imported cold-chain containers and quarantined a bunch of people today for potential exposure.
I remember talking about it here back in Feb and March. And everyone just angrily yelled it was a "China thing" that wouldn't affect the US, it only spread in urban areas, I was being a drama queen, etc..
The whole thing feels like a mix of survivor's guilt and anger at this point. My family and grandparents are in South Dakota. I tried to tell them to take it seriously in February, and now it's spiking there 9 months later.
Did officials in Wuhan make a mess of this? Definitely.
Did it matter or affect the global spread? No.
Did it matter or affect the global spread? No.
I shouldn't have started this thread, because now I'm angry. How is that Vietnam and Thailand, relatively poor countries, are kicking the USA's ass when it comes to Covid-19?
