took three years, and finally I can no longer need to be quarantined after returning to China! Starting from January 8, 2023, the country will cancel the nucleic acid testing and centralized isolation of all employees after entry! Although a nucleic acid test is still required 48 hours before departure, there is no need to apply for a health code from the embassy or consulate. Just fill in the results into the customs health declaration card!
Three years, how many three years can there be in life? Most overseas travelers have experienced too much in the past three years. At the beginning of 2020, the whole family of a friend in Wuhan was infected. Their family relied on the high-priced immune globulin to survive. During that time, my friend had video calls with his family almost 24 hours a day. Our epidemic situation overseas is also very severe. We can hardly leave our homes and only go out to buy groceries every week. Even the city center is almost deserted and the bustling city is not as prosperous as before. Flight circuit breaker is the latest word I learned this year. At that time, every time I talked to my family, I would shed tears unconsciously. I believe most people have a deep understanding of the feeling of uncertainty about the future, which is like the end of the world...
In 2021, the situation is still severe. Wearing masks is still mandatory on buses and some closed places. We Chinese will wear them almost wherever we go.
Many Locals do cast a lot of strange looks. However, no matter who we love, they will never understand the meaning of health to us. At that time, there was an app in Australia called Check in. No matter where we went, we would scan the QR code. Through this app, we could check whether there were infected people nearby and what places these infected people had visited. After the 2021 fiscal year, the entire city is still in panic. Once there is a close contact, they must be quarantined at home. The infected people must be quarantined in designated hotels, and working people must also work from home.
In 2022, it is hard to imagine that this epidemic will affect us for nearly three years. As someone who experienced SARS in 2003, when I was upstairs at home, I counted the ambulances whizzing by on the North Fourth Ring Road every few minutes on average, and when I saw the daily increase in infection numbers on the news channels, I could only sigh but not feel anything. I can only say that I was young and didn’t know what it was like to be worried. However, this year, we need to be self-reliant, make money to support our family, pay off the mortgage, pay various utility bills, and face the pressure caused by inflation. The Australian government announced the end of the epidemic in October. Except for the mandatory wearing of masks in medical, elderly care and other related institutions, masks are not required in other closed places, and the check-in app is no longer required. Even though there was another large-scale infection in October, my friends and I were all infected one after another, and we basically recovered in 3-5 days. To be honest, after experiencing it, I feel indifferent! It feels so good to be able to take a big breath of fresh air without having to be strangled by a mask so hard your ears are about to fall off! At the end of the year, domestic policies also began to gradually relax. Although some family members in our country were caught off guard and were infected one after another, they were all in good health. Especially my 90-year-old grandfather, who has the mildest symptoms among his family members.
Just today, the motherland’s New Year’s gift to overseas Chinese is that they finally don’t have to be quarantined when they return home. I can’t help but burst into tears! The main reason why many people do not return to China is, in addition to the lack of flights and expensive air tickets, the domestic quarantine policy. Because there are too many uncertainties, no one knows whether the quarantine time will gradually increase as the epidemic worsens. Because no one wants to waste their annual leave earned from a year of hard work in a quarantine hotel.
2023, homesick, homesick, homesick...
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