 Hi guys this is Dr. Nancy Lee. I help engineers and international professionals to get opportunity and compensation they deserve. Today we are not going to talk about clear topics. I'm going to talk about personal updates. My wedding in China is cancelled due to the coronavirus aka Wuhan virus. The reason I'm filming this video is showing that not everything was very rosy. People fight for their career, for money, for life, for everything. But life usually do not go the way you want it. Sometimes you're thrown down by your life. Just like this my wedding was cancelled. So today in this video I'm going to give you an update about Wuhan virus from someone who is from China and the information was recorded for people who is in China. And in addition it's about my wedding planning, what's my plan, how I plan and why I want to have a wedding in China. So let's start from the proposal first. So my fiance proposed last summer in a glider at Acadia National Park. Then right after that we decided to have a wedding in China. So we pick a date which is May 3rd 2020 in China. So we have about a year to prepare for the wedding, let people know. We're very confident, very excited having a wedding in China. However, the coronavirus went out of control. In December 8th 2019, the first coronavirus case was discovered in Wuhan China. As the case started to evolve in January 23rd 2020, the city was quarantined. Nobody can travel outside Wuhan and including multiple cities around it. What makes it even worse is recently there was a blow-up which is the second day after Chinese New Year which January 26th the whole country got shut down which means there's no intercity travel. If you want to travel for example from Mai hometown to Shanghai to another city, you will be detected when you land to Shanghai and people will put you in quarantine and nobody will accept you as a guest. So it's highly discouraged to travel in between cities. And in addition the government told everybody to go to work late and everybody will wear a mask and all the small businesses start to shut down including restaurants and retail stores. The only places that's open was hospital, grocery store and also medical stores so they can buy medicine. And everybody else just stay home wearing a mask. For example, my parents they felt like they're in jail. Just it's very difficult to work out right now the entire road in China was pretty empty. What they did is sometimes they wear a mask and walk outside of the block just get some exercise, get some fresh air but they had nothing to do. That's one of the reasons I'm making this youtube video so they have something to watch at the same time because they have nothing to do. And as we continue we already had 14 US guests confirm that traveling from US to China to attend our wedding. And most of them already purchased the flight. Now however on January 31st 2020 Delta airline announced they're going to cancel all the flights between China and the US starting from February all the way towards the end of April. So which means all my guests are going to get refund of their ticket. You might think well maybe at the end of April the virus was gone they can still come in May. What is in May right? But think about this logistically how this is possible. The ban was lifted by the end of April then gonna take the first flight on May 1st and can my wedding on May 3rd. It is very challenging and also emotionally I don't think anybody want to go back to China right away honestly. So therefore the wedding was canceled. So here comes the question how's my parents? Thank you for asking this question. My parents are doing very well. All my family members are still in China so right now they may be staying home. What they feel like they're very bored that said and the only few cases discovered in my own city. So my city has millions of peoples but less than 10 people were diagnosed with that disease. So therefore the risk of being interacted with a person very low. Those people who diagnosis with coronavirus has been already in hospital and the rest of people like my parents what they mainly do is stay home. So the next question is if people stay home what can they do or cannot do. So what it looks like in China right now is for example like my parents they were told to stay home so they cannot go out to their community to go to another community to hang out with them. What it means is if you live in Cambridge you only hang out with people in Cambridge. You do not go to Boston for grocery shopping however they are allowed to go grocery shopping every other day into a different city for the purpose of buying some food but in general you're not recommended to go in between communities in between cities. Now next question is as you can imagine everything was shut down in terms of restaurants and entertainment karaoke all the small businesses were shut down everything turned online. Cousins company and their company is a pretty big national owned company they all work from home so they can still use computers just those brick and mortar stores has been heavily impacted because they cannot open their stores. The next question is what does it look like when people work in quarantine. Let me give you a real-life example for example my cousin she was in our hometown in Jiangxi province now she needs to travel back to another city to work the thing is she doesn't have any disease she was okay but when you travel entering another city what you need to do is you need to be in quarantine for 14 days so for her in her case they put her in a hotel so this is a video of her hotel room she has a bed to say exactly hotel room and she worked from home in the hotel for 14 days and she does not interact with other people during those 14 days after 14 days if she is okay with no symptoms she can really go back to work to do anything to get to join the normal life basically however if you are diagnosed with like symptoms or everything when you are quarantined you are quarantined in the hospital only those people who was okay before they travel back to where they need to work and they stay at other places relative comfortable places for quarantine I also heard other places when you quarantine you can stay in offices they just give you a bed for you sleep there and give you wifi so that you can work from anywhere so in general that's what looks like in china right now and for my wedding I think the impact my wedding is relatively small compared with the impact to china and other businesses so I'm okay but if you have similar experience regarding how your wedding was impacted how would you rearrange everything about your wedding please comment down below so I can learn from you guys and finally it is about what do the rest of chinese do if you do not live inside china so for example right now I live in the US there are the chinese people living in like europe other places and all the chinese also does china start to get united we start to donate money and start to buy medical stuff and ship it to china and for example my the other cousin she's a nurse she's literally sent me pictures of her running on a mask every day she has to use the old mask from the day before to cover the new mask because those masks are pretty thin and all the hospitals are running out of mask as a nurse like she's at the front line dealing with those patients she's out of mask right now and so therefore all the chinese right now will buy masks all over the world from europe from u.s everywhere you can imagine then we ship it together to the hospitals in china there is a non-profit organization myself donated money to is that they specifically have engineers watch step by step process to make sure the specific masks and medical stuff being delivered to the hospital directly and this specific group is located in boston myself already donated money to them and they already 50 000 worth of masks and medical stuff shipped to china already so the team is still growing you can see them working really hard right now if you're interested in either join them or donate money to those organizations i'm going to put the link down below and hopefully we can all conquer this coronavirus i have confidence you're interested in any career topic back to my normal product management and negotiation topics feel free to subscribe to my newsletter so you can see the newsletter link down below i'm going to send you some personalized advice and information about what behind the scenes as a hiring manager all right i will see you next time bye