My Adventure - Back to China

What is a coronavirus?The picture above is the coronavirus. Coronavirus is a collective term for a group of viruses that can infect both humans and animals, causing respiratory illnesses ranging from a mild case like the common cold to a severe case that can develop into pneumonia. It is extremely rare for an animal coronavirus to infect humans and spread through the population. You may recall the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-2003, which was a classic case of coro ...

These are photos I took in Washington. In the first photo, the magnolias are opening just in time, and although the epidemic has begun to spread, there is no sign of tension in the city.Bruce is the guy with the bicycle helmet Bruce and I met in a funny way when I asked for help from the Writing Center at the library and ended up mistaking him for a Writing Center employee; Bruce was actually a professor in a graduate writing class, but said he would be happy to help me. After thi ...

This is a picture of me and my host family in Washington. My resident parents are both Chinese, but they don’t speak Chinese.They taught me how to prevent infection at the beginning of the epidemic, and taught me some Cantonese food and tai chi. Their Cantonese food is super delicious, I rarely get to eat these dishes in China!

This is a picture my friend and I took before we got on the plane. We had goggles and masks ready and were prepared to spend the day on the plane without eating or drinking. Up until this point, I felt the sense of oppression brought on by the epidemic. This is a picture I took at the airport. I was about to take a flight to China. From this picture, you can see that people are wearing masks and glasses, and they are spontaneously keeping their distance from others

All hotel staff wear isolation suits to reduce the possibility of infection. Finally, I went back to China. Because of the policy, all people who return to China from abroad are required to receive 14 days of quarantine. My three meals a day were provided by the hotel and I had to report my temperature every day for 14 days.As you can see from this table from Google, the risk of infection in China has dropped very low in April, which is also the day my quarantine ended. Aside from wearing a mas ...