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This is a recent article I had published in the HangzhouFeel Newspaper Just like most people in Hangzhou we have been avidly watching the CCTV news. Its been wonderful to watch the selfless actions of the doctors, nurses and the citizens of China working together to fight this Covid-19 virus. But now the focus has moved to the rest of the World and we are seeing chaos as people fight for toilet rolls and empty the shelves in supermarkets as they panic at the news. One of the

Surviving in the time of the Covid-19 virus – sweating the small stuff Date Line Hangzhou, China - February 22nd 2020. (edited and title change) March 14th Hangzhou, China - reposted 16th March 2020 I have been indoors since the 21st of January well over 50 days now with only about 7 excursions outside the community in which I live. These are the takeaways (no pun intended) from this China Crisis. My main message is stolen from the astronaut Chris Hadfield in his book “An A

The view from the 9thfloor – locked down in Hangzhou 2020. About six months after arriving in Hangzhou during a tornado we were looking forward to spending our first spring festival here. After spending 7 years in Nanjing we were ready for the new and exciting experiences Hangzhou and Zhejiang province had to offer. However, we will remember this Chinese New Year for a long time. It’s the Year of the Rat, and we, in the West, mainly remember the rat for being the carrier of t