{"id":130282,"date":"2020-02-01T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/01\/paranoia-and-frustration-as-china-places-itself-under-house-arrest\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:58:00","slug":"paranoia-and-frustration-as-china-places-itself-under-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=130282","title":{"rendered":"Paranoia and frustration as China places itself under house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities are becoming ghost towns, while at the heart of the outbreak people are being disinfected after taking the bins outLast week, in the last few days of China\u2019s lunar new year holiday, the streets of Beijing were decorated with fairy lights and glowing red lanterns, but eerily empty. Normally busy restaurant and bar strips were dark. Residential compounds, often lax in their security, closed their gates, with guards ordering anyone entering to register and have their temperature taken. Public buses carried only a few passengers. Those restaurants that were open were mostly empty, with only small groups of diners. At Beijing Capital airport, staff, including some health workers in full hazmat suits, outnumbered passengers.\u201cIt\u2019s weird,\u201d said Li, 42, a teacher from Beijing who has remained in the city since the outbreak of the coronavirus. \u201cThis isn\u2019t Beijing. Beijing always has a lot of people. Right now the roads, restaurants and malls are all empty.\u201d She spends her days at home cooking and eating, occasionally going to the shop for supplies. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/across-china-cities-turn-into-ghost-towns-as-coronavirus-infects-more-than-10000\" target=\"_blank\">Paranoia and frustration as China places itself under house arrest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities are becoming ghost towns, while at the heart of the outbreak people are being disinfected after taking the bins outLast week, in the last few days of China\u2019s lunar new year holiday, the streets of Beijing were decorated with fairy lights and glowing red lanterns, but eerily empty. Normally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}