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BEIJING – It wasn’t the 32-hour trip here from Atlanta with a stopover in Paris – literally flying the wrong way around the world – that underscored the strangeness of what awaits visitors at these 2022 Winter Olympics.
It wasn’t the workers in full hazmat suits waiting to process us at the airport, looking more like guards from Squid Games than the friendly Olympic volunteers we are used to seeing. It wasn’t the cotton swab stuck so far up my nasal cavity that it probably rearranged some gray matter. It wasn’t even arriving at a hotel surrounded by barricades only to be prevented from entering the lobby until every piece of luggage was sprayed with disinfectant.
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