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Collected Item: “HIST30068 China’s Zero Covid Policy Story 5”

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HIST30068 China’s Zero Covid Policy Story 5

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Photograph

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Me and my sister have been wanting to go back to China for quite some times now – we haven’t seen our grandparents for years due to the pandemic, and they are not getting any younger. But the crazy flight ticket price and the concern that China’s strict covid policies will make it hard for us to come back for school made us postpone our plans. It is also difficult for them to come here, also due to China’s covid policies.
This June, my cousin gave birth to a girl, whom her grandmother and great-grandparents deeply wanted to meet. The pandemic born baby is growing very fast: she used to be too small for the hat that I knitted for her birthday, but now she’s already too big for it.

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#lockedupwithcovid #melbourne #china

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self

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2022-10-20
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