Oh it was fucking nuts. I used to watch the asian markets early in the AM and they started running a few stories a couple of weeks before Kobes death, at the time of his death tons of propaganda was being passed on lower level subreddits. People falling over dead, welded into their apartments, hallways lined with hundreds of bodies, hazmat suited people spraying the empty streets with chemicals, hazmat soldiers taking people from homes for breaking curfew, cities locked down with temperature checkpoints guarded by millitary.

After a week of morning Kobe's dumbass it was being talked about in the states. I asked my friends in China about what was going on, they are spread throughout four major cities. They just did a typical lockdown, no bars, public transport, only go out to get groceries, this went on for 3-4 weeks. After that, soft opening for a few weeks, by 3 months they where open for business as usual. Like complete business as usual. No fucking masks, social distancing, limited seatings, hotpot restaurants in Yantai were open after 2 months.