tonight, magic medicine. you re looking at empty shelves in china. in this video, they used to be stocked with canned peaches. now people are hoarding canned peaches specifically because of a superstition they can offer protection from covid. how come? even the word tao, the mandarin pronunciation of peach is significant, some believe. it sounds like the mandarin word for escape, which is perhaps wishful thinking by china that some can escape the illness. a writer in the state-run china daily took this on writing it s suggested that canned yellow peaches be included in medical insurance. this comes from a northern superstition that may not be well understood by others. all of this coming as beijing is still a ghost town tonight, despite some lifted covid restrictions because people are still choosing self-quarantining over fears of a covid surge. thank you so much for joining