Sadly I have to agree with livinginchina.

GoK was once lively, contentious, at times abusive but also interesting, entertaining and always informative. The goal of harmony resulted in policy of forced moderation and eventual censorship. Only approved opinions and discourse was allowed. As the hand on the tiller grew heavier, GoK lost the wind.

Sorry for getting nautical but I bought a home less than a kilometer from the ocean in California and have been relaxing, enjoying my dotage, sailing, and the Kunming like weather here. I miss China and Kunming. American food is boring.

祝大家春城好运，万事如意！

CNN has a report by an American reporter from CNN flying into Kunming:

www.cnn.com/[...]

Any chance that the people putting up cash for houses/buildings can recover their money?

In the US we are being told that getting vaccinated will end the supply chain problem. Biden’s Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm on skyrocketing prices of goods:

"[Economists say] there is a transitory nature to the inflation problem…We wanna make sure we get everybody vaccinated so we can unclog the bottlenecks that we’ve been seeing.”

The Chinese government is more rational.

Found an interesting video (48 min) on the COVID pandemic and the vaccines being pushed. The mRNA vaxx are still experimental and controversy is raging on who should get the shot. I got the two Pfizer shots as I am 78 with additional high risk problems.

This is the link and there are many (100+ ?) links to additional resources.

www.algora.com/[...]

Frankly, I would try to get the Chinese vaxx as it seems to be, to my non-medical mind, a safer bet than the untested experimental mRNA versions.