have you heard of COVID-19?

Last I checked it didn't load without a VPN.

Why not? This isn't anything out of the ordinary. Just some Docker containers and VSC. You can even find the Open Source version of VSC in some repositories.

Is thay supposed to be better?

If you assume that every hoster is reading your mails, then moving them to China would give you the advantage, that your content and your meta data are not relevant to your new Chinese hoster, so ad targeting etc. would be gone, because you probably don't check Chinese sites frequently

Migadu works great most of the time, but it takes forever to get a reply from their support.

With no information on the Readme about how to use it.

Any recommendations for Android?