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  Just go home, you should be with your parents in these trying times.
context: how many billion? >
  
  Didn’t you know? China has a bajillion people >
  
  feels like 2020 again. im going on vacation at the end of january, countries impose restrictions on travel from china. And if when i come back our premier says to go and enjoy march break i will know that shit is about to hit the fan.. >
  
  Deja vu all over again. >
  
  Good luck with that. I'm on a bullet train in China right now and it's jam packed. >
  
  Good luck to you,sir. >
  
  Visiting & honoring parents is deep in Chinese culture. Only cordons of police could stop it & there'd be riots anyway.  Money or other incentives would be better. Maybe "If you don't visit your parents, we'll pay them 7,250 yuan" or something. >
  
  I want to add that many chinese people leave their home to take a job in big city far away, in order to fee their family.
  Most of the time they spend entire year working, since they cant afford spending their hard earn money to buy a ticket too often and sometime their trip back home takes days. Therefore, many save their money just to buy a ticket back home in the long holiday during New Year 
  Asking them to not meet their family(like their parents , sometime even the kids thry left behind) they haven't see for a year is impossible. >
  
  True but in the meantime they bring the plague back to their parents who will end up dying. Yes culturally this is quite significant but as a person with Chinese ancestry myself I would still use logic in all of this. >
  
  As an chinese I can tell you, I already saw news about ppl start traveling as soon as the lock down ended and bring covid backnto their family.
  Logic may work on some ppl but probably not all, ppl who think they are lucky and the desperate still gonna go back >
  
  Funny... Ithink I saw this same story a few years ago... Just before the... Oh no.... Not again... >
  
  Why didn't they tell people this before they started traveling?   For weeks it's been "China is Open!  Lunar NY Travel Is Back!" >
  
  
  Why didn't they tell people
  
  it's a token action - people were gonna do it regardless. >
  
  it's next week, too late now >
  
  If you care about your parents it is good idea to not visit them when Covid is still running rampant. >
  
  While a large group of population has been ordered to stay still for the past 3 years, and hasn't been able to visit their families ever since. I'm sure they'll do their math, but there's no measures to stop them whatsoever. >
  
  I just don't understand, if there is a huge surge of covid, why would you want to expose your family to a potential disease that may kill them?
  When I was in that situation, I avoided being with my parents altogether.
  Edit: a word >
  
  Also, don't leave home. >
  
  Reddit would have you believe they're so comic-book level authoritarian yet they can't force their citizens to 'not go home'? Curious. Schrodinger's China strikes again. >
  
  They could ostensibly stop all travel by cancelling trains, reinstating health code requirements, etc, but the would just be introducing another lockdown which would hurt the economy. >
  
  The economy is clearly not the most important factor, otherwise there wouldn’t have been lockdowns for the last 3 years in the first place.