LIVING WITH COVID
新冠之中的我们
I wrote this in May of 2022, when Beijing is conducting mandatory city-wide nucleic acid testing once per day.Since January, due to control operations across the country, going outside has been very restricted, and even visiting neighborhood parks and shopping malls has been difficult at times.
Do we have any recollection of the last time we felt free to go out without a mask? Can we accept the current status as a new normal?
Is the security we get by giving away freedom worthy?
There's only one photo which represents the whole year.
The first emergent notification of nucleic acid test to all residents Beijing in one morning. Most people were actually worried about being late for work more than the Omicron, looking anxiously through the long queue waiting for the test. No one could imagine such situation would last for a whole year then.