MIKE: I'm Mike.
I grew up in the United States,
been living in China for about
nine years
now, six years in Shanghai
already.
Roughly 23 million people live
in Shanghai.
From Shanghai to Wuhan,
it's about 500 miles.
Total cases that hit Shanghai
was pretty low.
Everybody in China
was worried to some extent.
With each passing day,
I think more people started
to wear their masks,
or keep distance
from other people,
or stay inside their home.
Most of the buildings
here are really tall apartment
buildings.
In my complex, totally, there
are 50,000 people.
So one of the first actions they
took was to seal off
the entrances to the community.
You have a security guard
and a couple of other people
helping him out to check
everybody's temperature,
and then check their ID card
for the community.
They were taking it seriously
in the beginning.
And they're still taking it
seriously.
So most of the restaurants
and bars were closed up
until about two weeks ago.
When you enter a restaurant
or a bar or really anything,
even a mall, there's a person
at the front, and they'll take
your temperature with a--
sort of a digital device,
and then require you to also
sign in.
So you put your name
and your phone number.
This was never done
by the government themselves
or the police.
It's a community-based effort,
pretty much, to control who's
coming in and out, because it's
still a risk.
By no means is it gone.
But it's-- it's getting a lot
better.
It has to be a societal thing.
You know, we have to all get
through this together.
It can't be the government
saving us,
or the police enforcing it.
It really has to be a society
who makes the decision that, OK,
we're going to do this,
because it's going to help us
get back quicker.
