Chinese Residents on Lockdown Are Passing Time in Some Pretty Creative Ways

As you can imagine, people in these quarantine zones are getting quite bored. But they’re making the best of the situation. Videos have emerged online showing the different ways people are spending their time.

One person, for example, entertained themselves by staring out the window with a sock puppet, pretending to use the pupped to devour passing cars.

Another video shows a series of creative games people invented to pass the time, including ring toss, living room tennis, fishing in a pet fish tank, and makeshift ping pong.

On Weibo, China’s most popular social network, many people are sharing artistic creations they have plenty of time now to make.

Others got really creative, and managed to have a communal dinner despite being confined to different buildings. They set up meals on their respective roofs, and enjoyed each other’s company by shouting across the way.

And when there’s nothing on TV at night, and you can’t go out to a nightclub, you might as well join a singalong with people from the adjacent apartment buildings.

It’s important to remember that those most closely affected by the coronavirus outbreak are real people, and racist panic over Chinese people potentially spreading the virus will do nothing to help the situation. And if these people under quarantine can still find humor and relative calm under the circumstances, there’s no reason for people in the United States to be freaking out — especially when the threat of the common flu remains a bigger danger.