{"id":258031,"date":"2025-03-13T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/lets-not-talk-about-it-5-years-later-chinas-covid-shadow-lingers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:04:05","slug":"lets-not-talk-about-it-5-years-later-chinas-covid-shadow-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/lets-not-talk-about-it-5-years-later-chinas-covid-shadow-lingers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s Not Talk About It\u2019: 5 Years Later, China\u2019s Covid Shadow Lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bit by bit, the traces of Shanghai\u2019s coronavirus lockdown in 2022 have disappeared from around Fu Aiying\u2019s stir-fry restaurant. The smell of rotten eggs, from when officials carted her off to quarantine without letting her refrigerate her groceries, is long gone. The testing booths manned by workers in hazmat suits have been dismantled.<\/p>\n

Even her neighbors have moved away, from the century-old neighborhood that had one of the city\u2019s highest infection rates. Soon, the neighborhood itself will vanish: Officials have slated it for demolition, saying that its cramped houses had helped the virus spread. Ms. Fu\u2019s restaurant is one of the few businesses still open, in a row of darkened storefronts and caution signs taped to doorways.<\/p>\n

But the boarded-up windows have done little to contain the emotional legacy of that time, a grueling, monthslong lockdown of 26 million people<\/a>. Some residents, who had prided themselves on living in China\u2019s wealthiest city, found themselves unable to buy food or medicine. They wondered when they might be dragged off to quarantine, forcibly separated from their children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n