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Slack.com slash DHQ. Henry Bushnell, from over at Yahoo Sports, he is supposed to get

on a plane tomorrow. I am traveling to Beijing in the words of our editors and probably a

lot of other editors around the US media landscape as of now. If he gets on this plane, Henry's

going to be headed to China to cover the Olympics. Everything is to some extent tentative, but

as of now, I'll arrive Thursday morning in Beijing and the opening ceremony will be

Friday and the games will begin and we'll be there to cover them.

You save for now. Why do you save for now? Because of COVID and Amacron and all of the

craziness that is happening in the world.

The rules about COVID in China really don't look very much like the rules here, or even

the rules in Japan during the last year of summer games. China is still trying for COVID-0.

You might have heard about the Chinese woman who said she got stuck at a blind date's house

for four days when the coronavirus shut down a whole neighborhood, or about the pet

stores in Hong Kong that were calling hamsters suspected of spreading COVID. This was all

over the last few weeks and thousands of journalists and athletes are about to touch down

in this country, bringing their hometown germs with them.

I want to be pretty confident that when I get on that plane to China, I don't have COVID.

If you test positive on arrival, you'll be stuck in an isolation facility for 10 days

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