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Have you managed to find a way back? Or are you having extended luna new year holiday? Hope your friends and colleagues are all OK 👍
Rich_G-
Lunar holiday got extended by a day, but we're now all working from home or other offices as the shanghai govt won't let us open the doors to the office without a special permit. I'm ok cos I'm in London (so working from our London office), but colleagues in Shanghai are having a tough time trying to work normally (VPNs are fucked) and one colleague has been sealed inside her apartment by the local residents committee people as her housemate came back from somewhere "bad" (not sure where, shanghainese people generally dislike all outsiders). She can't leave for 14 days and will be brought food every 7 days. Other cities have a card system for leaving the house, one household member every 2 days is allowed to leave for 3 hours to buy provisions. Even "unaffected" compounds are making people sign in and out. Masks in Shanghai are government rationed and we have to sign up for our ration.
hats
Very very sad about Dr Li. Also fucking mental that Chinese state media retracted the statement about his death for a while yesterday. My social media is wall-to-wall posts about him and criticism of the govt. Quite a few people have had their wechat accounts suspended and there are millions of posts on weibo calling for freedom of speech (pretty sure all of these will be removed).