Well my other half is out in the thick of it all at the moment. He mailed me from China about 11 days ago to say that paranoia was sweeping through Shenyang, where he works, and that he still reckoned the Chinese authorities were lying about the scale of things. He took himself off to Thailand for 2 weeks to escape, and is still there, due to return to China at the end of this week. This was an already planned trip over the (now cancelled) Chinese public holiday, and just brought forward a week or two. Now from his latest mail it looks like he may have to be quarantined for 2 weeks when he gets back, as his route in takes him via Beijing. The EU people on his project have pulled out, leaving no guidelines (it's an EU funded project), and his own company aren't issuing any either. So he is being pragmatic about it, and is quite prepared to be quarantined, he says, and put up at the EU's expense! He said he was fully expecting to get back and find that everyone had gone home!

Andrea