The Beginning

Chinese New Year. 48 Days before lockdown. We were down in the International District when we heard that the CNY celebration over in Sammammish had been canceled because of worries about the new coronavirus that had started in Wuhan - whatever that was, and wherever that was.

Here was my IG post:

新年快乐
Kong Hei Fa Choi
恭喜發財
chúc mừng năm mới 
Been celebrating this since 1976 when I first visited Taiwan to study Chinese. I’ll never forget the sheer cacophony of that first lunar new year. I thought the communists had invaded.