It wasn’t too long ago the Chinese government forced a large number of citizens into a lockdown as COVID spikes were seen across the country. In addition to people trapped in their homes and apartments without proper supplies (and many dying as a result), countless business travelers and tourists were abandoned in hotels throughout China, some relying on the mercy of the hotel, many of whose employees were sent home.
James Zimmerman, a lawyer from the Perkins Coie law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, flew into Shanghai in April 2022. Despite testing negative for COVID, he was immediately put into quarantine, where he spent 37 days in a semi-squalid hotel room. On April 24, he told Forbes magazine in an interview: “It’s maybe a two-star hotel. At the street level, the hotel is surrounded by 6-foot-high blue steel corrugated fencing. The room is small, and so it doesn’t allow me to exercise. It’s hard to keep this up in a [12x12-foot] room day in and day out. Ditto for eating a heart-healthy diet [he was recovering from heart surgery]. I begged the hotel for fresh fruit, and they delivered rotting apples.”
This could happen to you. It might not be a COVID lockdown; it could be a terrorist attack, a sudden
