It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Monday, March 30th.

Now, lessons from China on surviving lockdown in your personal life, how lockdown helped China slow the spread and begin to reopen,

and an argument for everyone wearing masks.

Our guest is Eunice Yun, Beijing Bureau Chief for CNBC, Senior Correspondent for NBC News,

and host of their program Inside China.

Hello from New York.

Eunice, thanks for coming on with us again.

Can you hear us over there?

Yeah, I can.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

That's great.

Sometimes the line is better to Beijing than to Brooklyn.

Can you give us the context for your reporting on lockdown?

Were you locked down?

Oh, yeah, definitely lockdown in Beijing. So we, at the first lockdown was in Wuhan,

obviously the epicenter, and that was on January 23rd. And then a couple days later in Beijing

and in the rest of the country, we just started hearing more and more

travel restrictions or just movement restrictions. For example, for myself, the residential

compound that I had that I live in, they just start, you started seeing more temperature

checks than when you want to go into the subway, people were wearing hazmat suits. They wouldn't

let you go into the subway unless you wore a mask. And then as the days progressed, things

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