First Trip Abroad After Three Years of Pandemic - New York and Washington D.C.
It feels like a lifetime has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe for over three years. Countries imposed strict entry quarantines and controls, international flights were almost entirely grounded, and checking health codes and nucleic acid test results became a daily routine. At one point, we couldn't even freely leave our residential compounds, let alone dream of pursuing poetry andθΏζΉ. The world and our lives have undergone profound changes, but everything dissipated with the WHO's announcement in early 2022 that COVID-19 no longer constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and the relaxation of national prevention and control policies. The world reconnected, and the life we once knew gradually returned. The scenery remained familiar, what we missed was still missed, what we yearned for was still yearned for, and the bustling placesεθͺηΉε...
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