#COVIDCatLady, One Year On
A year ago, on January 23rd, I landed in Taipei, home for Chinese New Year, to find that the city of Wuhan in China had been "locked down" due to an pneumonia outbreak. The term “lockdown” was novel then, its ramifications unclear. This January 23rd, I was woken up by a phone call informing me that a Didi (cab-hailing app) driver I had on January 15th had a passenger who tested positive for COVID, and that he was waiting for his nucleic acid test result. I was told to stay ho