re: Second City in China, Huanggang, is being put on lockdown

I forgot that Chinese New Year is coming up.

Until you’ve seen it, you really can’t comprehend what it’s like when a country of 1.3 billion all take a week of vacation at the same time to travel back to their hometowns, especially when that is the only break most get and you consider the urban migration that has occurred in the last 20 years.

Train stations and airports are absolute cattle yards.

Add in the air pollution that triggers coughing and nose blowing on an industrial scale, and the implications are legitimately scary.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

ETA: Oh, and 2020 is the Year of the Rat.