Fleeing China's Covid lockdowns for the US - through a Central American jungle

[Scott]

 

China may be easing some of its severe anti-Covid restrictions but its draconian pandemic policies have driven many citizens to seek a better future elsewhere - whatever the risks in getting there.

Three days into their trek through a Central American rainforest, some 9,300 miles (15,000 kilometres) away from home, the Sun family threw away their camping gear to lighten the load, thinking they would be out by nightfall.

Instead, they were stranded in the jungle by heavy rain.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64008633

[Jingthing]

OK, I didn't read the entire article because migrants trying to survive the killer Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama is very old news.

Did the article say why they just didn't fly into Mexico?

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

OK, I didn't read the entire article because migrants trying to survive the killer Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama is very old news.

Did the article say why they just didn't fly into Mexico?

They probably had dementia. It's often a product of long covid.

 

https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20221128/is-it-long-covid-or-dementia-or-both

[thaibeachlovers]

One wonders how they were able to stay in the US as the BBC story points out that they are economic refugees that just disliked living in China because of politics. No stories of persecution, arrest or torture for being the wrong ethnicity etc.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

OK, I didn't read the entire article because migrants trying to survive the killer Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama is very old news.

Did the article say why they just didn't fly into Mexico?

From the BBC article:

 

The recent popularity of zouxian attests to the mounting desperation for some migrants to leave China, said Alexis Zhou, a freelance researcher who writes about Chinese migration in North America. Since the pandemic, it's been very difficult for an average Chinese person to obtain a visa from Mexico or Central American countries, she said.

[Johnnyngai]

Massive unemployment due to covid lockdown  and no western style government benefit. 

[Isaan sailor]

Open borders in the US.  Gee, how did that happen?

[Chomper Higgot]

Here’s a conundrum.

 

How does a rightwinger who has argued against lockdowns and that they were an imposition upon basic human rights now respond to people fleeing lockdowns committing that other rightwing trigger issue, sneaking across the border.

 

 

[Credo]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Here’s a conundrum.

 

How does a rightwinger who has argued against lockdowns and that they were an imposition upon basic human rights now respond to people fleeing lockdowns committing that other rightwing trigger issue, sneaking across the border.

 

 

Surely any right-winger would support them being given refugee status for such a horrible imposition on their freedom.