• Here's some transport data plotting.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/27/the-traffic-data-that-shows-the-road-into-and-out-of-covid-19-lockdown

    I don't know how universal adoption of satellite navigation systems is by now, but I guess it can be relied upon to provide a good indicator.

    About Wuhan:

    It is striking, though, how quickly the city of 23m people returned to normal levels of circulation.

    I mean, I would always put 'normal' in inverted commas in a sentence like this, because contemporary travel patterns are bizarre and perverse, but it's basically what I expect to happen afterwards, even with a brief spike to essentially neutralise environmental gains made during the crisis.

  • I would always put 'normal' in inverted commas in a sentence like this, because...

    ...it's a secretive communist dictatorship. I'd take data from China with a pinch of salt, and the behaviour of people in China is not likely to be a good proxy for the behaviour of free people.

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