Living in Beijing we did not have a city lockdown as it happened in Wuhan and Shanghai

Dear John: I am glad to hear you again. As to the “lockdown”, I can imagine how the west media report it. Living in Beijing we did not have a city lockdown as it happened in Wuhan and Shanghai. 我很高興再次聽到你的聲音. 至於“封城”, 可以想像西方媒體是如何報導的. 住在北京, 我們沒有像武漢和上海那樣封城

So I did not know much how it looked like though we can hear some news from the TV and the internet. In Beijing, we did have some area or buildings locked down usually for two weeks. We “free people” often joked that “why not give us some lockdown treatment?”

Because if your building or house be locked down, the people inside would get food and daily used goods for free, the government would pay for it. I did not have the chance to “enjoy” it. For some cases the people who contacted infected persons would be sent to a hotel and they also get food and daily used goods free. This is another type of lockdown. I believe it is in a small scale because we in Beijing have never had many people infected, for instance, yesterday (June 26) Beijing had only 3 people who newly got infected and one person was suspected to be “positive” . We say “suspected” because there is no symptom in that person but the nucleic acid testing showed “positive”.

Yes, the lockdown cause inconvenience to people’s life, but the short time inconvenience saved lives.

Nowadays we have nucleic acid testing every three days more or less, it is also free (the government pay for it), so people do not hesitate to get it, and what is more, there are many testing booths all over Beijing streets and people only queue for several minutes to have the testing done. People can have testing done anywhere he likes. The booths will put (send) the testing results into the data center and center intern put the results into each person’s mobile phone. So we all know the testing results from our phones. If some “positives” were found, the related persons can be traced quickly.

p.s. Up to April 18 there were 225.521 million old people (over 60), about 85.41%, got vaccinated, and in the whole country 90.94% people got vaccinated for covid-19.