Most people i talk to feel pretty comforted by those barriers. They've seen lock downs before. They know wat how china deals with close contacts and positive cases. But that being said, people are really anxious because there have been several amicron and delta cases the country. There are cities that are still under lockdown. People worry that the olympics could make rules even more strict in the next month. And so people are cancelling holiday travel. Basically everyone i know has been hoarding food. Not that there's any sign. Bajing, as a city, will go under lock down, or that food shipments in and out will be frozen. The closed loops right
The Games don’t begin until February 4, but the drama around the pandemic, free speech, and diplomatic boycotts has been building for months. NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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