- Imani Bashir is a writer who was living in Wuhan, China with her husband and 3-year-old son.
- They left for a one-week beach vacation to Malaysia in mid-January to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but on January 23, Wuhan was officially locked down - and they couldn't go back.
- The family spent a month in Malaysia, shuffling between hotel rooms and trying to figure out their next move.
- Rather than waiting to find out when they'd be able to return to China, the family ultimately decided to ask their landlady to give away their belongings. Bashir's husband has since taken a new job in another country.
- "Our attitude has been 'damn the stuff - we're healthy and together,'" she writes.
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As someone who was living in the city of Wuhan, the center of where the coronavirus started, I know that my and my family's current displacement is only a morsel of the aftermath of this virus. Information is widely spread, but it's constantly conflicting. Every person we still know in Wuhan is preparing for this to be an into-the-summer scenario.