Believe it or not, people in China are allowed to take vacations.

Believe it or not, this is vacation traffic.

Believe it or not, the following is real and not doctored or manipulated or spliced.

These are people trying to get back into Beijing after spending a whimsical weekend in the Chinese countryside — playing checkers, indulging in picnics, surfing the censored internet, refraining from making political commentary that could, you know, put them in prison. Yeah, fun stuff. Fun vacation-y activities. Fishing maybe. China is the largest “producer” of tilapia in the world. So there’s that.

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