Thank you all for reaching out to me ......... 🦅
I am writing this in response to the text messages and emails I received asking if I contracted the coronavirus here in China, the answer is “NO.”
I’m doing alright but all the non-essential businesses in China are shut down because of the Virus Outbreak. It is only going to get worse, everyone, here is required to self-quarantine themselves until further notice. The schools are shut down too so I’m not teaching now and my students are bored because they can’t leave their homes. They send me text messages and chat with me about things they are hearing on the news about how fast the virus is spreading.
Some stores can stay open in order to sell food and water and some pharmacies are open in order to sell medication. If people leave their apartment they have to wear a facemask and go to a certain entrance and exist in their apartment complex to have their temperature taken, to make sure they don’t have a fever. If they have a fever they are taken to a different location and screened to make sure they don’t have the coronavirus.
Americans that went back to the US during the Chinese New Year are unable to get a flight back to China because all flights to China are now suspended to the end of March. I’m lucky that I remained in China and that I didn’t leave the country. A friend of mine is stuck in the US and is unable to return to the school where he is a teacher. He is not happy about that because it is going to create problems for him. He has to be physically in China in order to renew his residential permit which expires on February 28th.
Well, one good thing about having to stay home is that I’m not going hungry. I have plenty of friends to prevent that from happening.
I will keep you guys up to date but hopefully, everything will be back to normal by the end of February.
Once again thank you all for showing me how much you care for my well being and I’m sorry for taking so long to answer your emails.
Always with love from Suzhou China,
Thomas F O’Neill
WeChat - Thomas_F_ONeill
U.S. Voice mail: (410) 925-9334
China Mobile: 011 (86) 13405757231
Skype: thomas_f_oneill
Email: introspective7@hotmail.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/thomasf.oneill.3/
I’m doing alright but all the non-essential businesses in China are shut down because of the Virus Outbreak. It is only going to get worse, everyone, here is required to self-quarantine themselves until further notice. The schools are shut down too so I’m not teaching now and my students are bored because they can’t leave their homes. They send me text messages and chat with me about things they are hearing on the news about how fast the virus is spreading.
Some stores can stay open in order to sell food and water and some pharmacies are open in order to sell medication. If people leave their apartment they have to wear a facemask and go to a certain entrance and exist in their apartment complex to have their temperature taken, to make sure they don’t have a fever. If they have a fever they are taken to a different location and screened to make sure they don’t have the coronavirus.
Americans that went back to the US during the Chinese New Year are unable to get a flight back to China because all flights to China are now suspended to the end of March. I’m lucky that I remained in China and that I didn’t leave the country. A friend of mine is stuck in the US and is unable to return to the school where he is a teacher. He is not happy about that because it is going to create problems for him. He has to be physically in China in order to renew his residential permit which expires on February 28th.
Well, one good thing about having to stay home is that I’m not going hungry. I have plenty of friends to prevent that from happening.
I will keep you guys up to date but hopefully, everything will be back to normal by the end of February.
Once again thank you all for showing me how much you care for my well being and I’m sorry for taking so long to answer your emails.
Always with love from Suzhou China,
Thomas F O’Neill
WeChat - Thomas_F_ONeill
U.S. Voice mail: (410) 925-9334
China Mobile: 011 (86) 13405757231
Skype: thomas_f_oneill
Email: introspective7@hotmail.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/thomasf.oneill.3/
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