Tag: coronavirus
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Things are (strangely) quiet this year
Looking back over the years it seems that, around this time of year, I usually write some sort of post titled “Things are getting quiet” in Beijing. The strange thing is, although I’m writing another one this year, things have been quiet for a while. If you haven’t seen the news as of late, China…
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The Chinese NAT test
It might come as a surprise to some but not to others, and some might even censure me for not doing this sooner, but I finally took a COVID test, also known as a nucleic acid test, or NAT for short. The result? Negative. Why did I finally go in for a test? Work told…
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Green Means Go: Working and Travelling after COVID
We’re finally back on the road for work, but the experience is a touch more complicated in that we now have to download, and register, a slew of new APPs, most of which are primarily in Chinese. What are these APPs? Other than tracking out whereabouts and travel history, each APP needs to give us…
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Beijing Resurgence
Well, if the first wave didn’t unseat him, maybe the second one will! Who? Trump of course! Alright, say what you will about current events but we are seeing another resurgence of THE VIRUS, that is, the Coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Over ten million people infected, half a million dead, but the fear remains…
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Chinese Changes – May 2020
I’ve done this type of post a few times before, notably in 2018 an 2019 in which I look at some of the things that I’ve seen change over the year in Beijing and in parts of China. Although the current situation has China and the world dealing with the Coronavirus epidemic, things were normal…