This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.

Today we are going to have a great conversation with Rebecca Franks from

Wuhan and she has been in Wuhan for years who has been on lockdown for the last

you know six plus weeks.

So I'm telling you she's lived what we're all kind of just beginning to live

and has such an interesting awesome perspective about it.

So anyway, thank you so much for joining us, Rebecca.

Give us a picture of what it looked like for you,

a day in the life, before all this started.

Okay, a day in the life is just real similar to many there.

My son goes to school. You know, we live 10 minutes away from where we work, we go to the market, we go to Starbucks, probably a little too much, and just do just do normal stuff. It's just a little more compact here and that we walk we don't have cars and it's a really easy simple life.

Now let's talk about when you realize this was going to be a big deal and this was going to affect all of life.

In January, so we had just gotten back from our Christmas break. We were off for two weeks.

We had some events planned at the school where I work and all of a sudden people

were pulling out. Nobody wanted to come to Wuhan and of course we knew about coronavirus but I was thinking

it was not that big of the deal. We went on break for Chinese New Year and at that point we had no idea

that we would not be going back. So January 17th was the last day anybody went to school or to work and it was the next day that we learned

quarantine has come and transportation is being shut down. It was the next day that we learned quarantine is coming.

Transportation's being shut down.

You got to stay in your house because this is very, very serious.

So what did that feel like to you when you heard the news?

Because you had no precedent for this prior this was unique you

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