People line up at a nucleic acid testing site amid lockdown measures to curb the coronavirus disease outbreak in Sanya, Hainan province, China, on Aug 6, 2022.On the last day of July, my family and I flew to Hainan - widely billed as "China's Hawaii" - for our first holiday outside Beijing in more than two-and-a-half years.
The Covid-19 suppression policies have constantly changed from one day to the next and often contradict one another, as China's omnipresent and arbitrary network of surveillance using big data and artificial intelligence has only added to our woes. This mandatory code, a version of which has been developed by each of China's provinces, follows a traffic light system: green allows the bearer to enter public spaces upon scanning a QR code with their phone; yellow and red do not.
Then, in the small hours of Aug 6 our test results suddenly all appeared in the app at once. But by that point the airport had cancelled almost all flights and both Sanya and Lingshui county were headed into snap lockdowns. But our nightmare is far from over. We expect our unplanned stay in Haikou to last for several more days, or even weeks, as the city's airport has cancelled most flights until further notice and our Beijing health codes currently bar us from getting on a plane home, even if we could find a flight.
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