Weeks before the coronavirus became a national health crisis in China, authorities threatened a doctor, Li Wenliang, who warned about early cases. State media reported that Li was illegally spreading rumors.That was a red flag for Bob Huang."People here tend to believe the government. Not me,"
Weeks before the coronavirus became a national health crisis in China, authorities threatened a doctor, Li Wenliang, who warned about early cases. State media reported that Li was illegally spreading rumors.“People here tend to believe the government. Not me,” said Huang, who is 50 years old and lives with his mother, Zhang Wanrong, and her caretaker in Zhichang, a town of 300,000 in northern Zhejiang province. “I’ve watched too many episodes of ‘The X-Files.
It begins with the volunteer guards outside his residential complex when he leaves home to buy groceries. Many wear red jackets with “volunteer” emblazoned across the back. Some are his neighbors. One of them is his dentist. Huang has to pass through several more makeshift checkpoints just to get to the market. At each checkpoint, Huang must write down his personal information and have his temperature checked. He goes through the same routine when he returns home. A 10-minute journey now takes three times as long.
The biggest problem, Huang said, is the town’s deep combination of listlessness and loneliness. Human interactions are becoming fewer and farther between as local officials change the rules to try to contain the virus. Now each family can only send one member out to buy food once every two days.A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Huang got married in the United States and became a naturalized citizen.
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