<story><title>Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00191-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xgantan</author><text>As a Canadian, I&amp;#x27;m currently visiting my family in Changsha, a city about 4 hours of a drive south of Wuhan. In the city, everyone is on edge. All public places such as restaurants, gyms and night clubs are closed. And everyone on the street wears a surgical or N95 mask. Not only Wuhan, but the entire country is also on lockdown.&lt;p&gt;It sucks but the people and the government have aligned themselves together to do whatever it takes to contain and control the coronavirus. Let&amp;#x27;s be strong and have faith.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00191-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Merrill</author><text>The restrictions on travel in China will be an interesting experiment in how much interurban travel is essential.&lt;p&gt;My take would be that with modern communications and IT infrastructure, there is actually very little need for interurban travel not associated with the movement of physical goods, i.e. not associated with truck drivers, rail crews, barge crews, air freight pilots, and so forth. Most other travel can be replaced by communications.</text></comment>