A year ago I woke up to an editor's email asking for a reporter to go to Wuhan, which was locking down because of a new virus. Shut a whole city? Sounded ambitious even for China....I guessed I'd be there for a week or two before the story died down.... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/asia/wuhan-china-coronavirus.html

12 months later my colleague Keith @KeithBradsher returned to Wuhan, and with that and a lot of phone calls and messages, we reflected on how the city has changed. It once offered a forewarning about the coronavirus. What lessons does it give us now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/asia/wuhan-china-coronavirus.html

The shutdown in Wuhan came in stages. At first, shoppers crowded into supermarkets or go for strolls. Then the restrictions tightened until the streets were eerily empty. Back then Wuhan seemed like a uniquely draconian experience. Now many cities gone through lesser lockdowns.

Many residents in Wuhan are happy and relieved to move on, and proud at how the city came through. But one refrain that came up in discussions was the saying "forgetting the pain after a scar heals" (好了傷疤忘了疼), a worry that the pain and lives lost will be hastily forgotten.