outbreak the head of the chamber of commerce in china recently returned from beijing my colleague ben sicily and i asked him what it was like to be stuck in lockdown in a ghost town well i've been through ghost towns before 2003 i was a veteran of the sas crisis and it was on lockdown what does different now that actually the shops and the restaurants are all down it's like a panic particularly in beijing where i live which is hard to understand because we have 3 in a case as one mortality and we have 5000000 cars in the city you don't see them anywhere it's ghost town which is frightening and my kids actually 8911 very concerned about this i mean it's depressing frank you were stuck there for some time how did you get out now actually getting out is very easy. to 2nd trip i live in china but unlike the 1st time when they came back now they put a new constraint on it i have to be put into current time because i come from germany in beijing when i return next week which is peculiar because in china you can get on the plane you get out here no current time. and you were planning to go back i b