Participants at the Olympics are confined to the hotels, restaurants and competition venues part of what organizers call a “closed loop” system that’s sealed off from the rest of China. Here’s what it’s like, according to reporter Nat_Herz:
Journalists work at the biathlon press center at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Monday, February 7, 2022.
In order for me, and everyone else, to be sitting here today, each of us had to pass two sensitive PCR coronavirus tests before flying from our home countries to China. We either had to be fully vaccinated, or spend three weeks in quarantine upon arrival. A Chinese worker greets passengers from a flight arriving from Tokyo at the Beijing airport on Friday, February 4, 2022. The whole experience of arriving here felt a little dystopian and dehumanizing — both for me, and for the Chinese workers who are wrapped all day in layers of uncomfortable-looking equipment and foggy face shields.Each morning, before I leave my hotel building, I stop in a room on the ground floor for a throat swab.
Those freedoms feel real and meaningful to me, having come here from a state that’s recently experienced one of the highest coronavirus case rates in a country with one of the highest coronavirus case rates. But they don’t come without huge tradeoffs. Legions of volunteers are tasked with jobs like scrubbing down surfaces, COVID test collection and directing traffic. They’re stationed at nearly every door to firmly ask those entering to stop at the infrared temperature and hand sanitizing station. Huge amounts of personal protective equipment is being used and discarded.
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