Dairy entry on being in home isolation due to covid
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April 16, 2020
By Annie Hsu | Penn Pandemic Diary
Annie Hsu is a junior majoring in International Relations and in History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Perry World House Student Fellow.
In the evening of January 10, I was on my way to my semester abroad at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Perhaps because it was the end of the holidays, the airport was exceptionally crowded that evening, but everything was calm and orderly as usual. I made my way through queues at the Toronto Pearson Airport and soaked in my last few moments of the familiarity of this airport and the cordial “Canadianness” around me that I expected to not encounter for the next six months.
Two months later, I would return to this same airport and discover a completely different atmosphere.
On January 23, the Chinese government announced a lockdown of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. I have many family members in Shanghai. Since January 23, my family in Shanghai has not set foot outside the house, except for getting groceries. Although the situation in Shanghai has not been as severe as other parts of China, my family understood the responsibility we had to stop transmission and to not put a strain on public health resources. January 24 was Lunar New Year’s Eve - perhaps the most important family holiday in Chinese culture. Like many others, my family sacrificed our annual family gathering and reunion dinner this year.