Posted on 09/29/2023 7:00:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chinese travellers thronged transport networks on Friday (Sep 29) as an eight-day national holiday kicked off, the first October break since the end of the strict zero-COVID policies that separated families and hammered the tourism industry.
Pre-booked international trips were 20 times higher than in the same period last year, and domestic trips over four times, according to data from Trip.com, China's largest online travel provider.
Last year, a slew of measures including mass coronavirus testing, health codes, quarantines between different provinces and restrictions on movement made travelling anywhere a daunting proposition.
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This is what kicked off COVID 2019.
Are they turning them loose infected with COVID 2023?
The Moon festival?
I think the communist originated patriotic festival was grafted onto that.
It is a yearly holiday for probably 1000 years.
The only Chinese who are traveling are those with a high enough social credit score awarded for their compliance and total servitude to the party. Those with low social credit scores are home eating cold, leftover batsh*t soup.
But at least they have their dignity.
Agreed.
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