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  Why didn't they tell people this before they started traveling?   For weeks it's been "China is Open!  Lunar NY Travel Is Back!"
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...