The metaphor of a delayed flight hits hard. Covid has literally delayed me getting on flights. As someone living outside their passport country by choice, pre-Covid, I took multiple international flights a year to many places to visit friends and family, attend conferences, and during holidays. I was unable to use flights I had booked for summer 2020. But I also haven’t left China since February 2020 and at this point I don’t foresee leaving until June 2023. (And that is mostly likely going to be a move back to Canada to regroup rather than to a new country.) It’s a weird feeling to be in a country devoted to Covid zero while much of the outside world (both individuals and nations) seems to be pretending the pandemic is over and everything can go back to “normal”.
The metaphor of a delayed flight hits hard. Covid has literally delayed me getting on flights. As someone living outside their passport country by choice, pre-Covid, I took multiple international flights a year to many places to visit friends and family, attend conferences, and during holidays. I was unable to use flights I had booked for summer 2020. But I also haven’t left China since February 2020 and at this point I don’t foresee leaving until June 2023. (And that is mostly likely going to be a move back to Canada to regroup rather than to a new country.) It’s a weird feeling to be in a country devoted to Covid zero while much of the outside world (both individuals and nations) seems to be pretending the pandemic is over and everything can go back to “normal”.