My Son’s Baseball Camp Cancelled

 

In a previous blog entry, I reported to a few rare readers, or maybe no readers, that my son was at a baseball camp and that on the first night, the hotel, that all the participants were to stay in for the camp, was expropriated by the government for quarantine purposes.  At the time, when reporting this story to others on social media, someone asked me why the camp hadn’t been cancelled.

Well, it was cancelled six days later.  Someone in the government phoned the person running the camp to cancel it.  So parents had to either pick up their children at the replacement hotel or have the children driven back to their homes.  The hotel was a 42 minute drive from the Xishan apartment, I am staying in till August 5, so I decided, given how there were roadblocks everywhere, to have Tony driven to me.

The driver at one point me had Tony call me to say that they didn’t know how to get to the Xishan apartment because of the roadblocks that had been placed around the city.

Eventually Tony made it to the entrance of the Xishan apartment complex.  I went down from the 19th floor apartment to greet him and I saw that he was being hassled by the security guards.  They wanted to know where he was coming from and whether he was NAT tested.  So, Tony had his hands full with his luggage, his phone, my phone (to get Wifi) and a clipboard with a form he had to fill out.  It was maddening for me to watch this.  

Filling out forms in order to pass through the entrance to where one lives.  What has the world come to?  Over two years ago, I said that the Covid response was going to make everywhere as annoying as a modern airport.  I was correct.  How anyone, with a conscience or an ability to think critically, could support the government’s covid response is unimaginable.