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Shanghai Covid Stories: Barriers are being installed all over the city. Meanwhile their purpose hasn't been fully explained.
A thread.
A thread.
We all have heard stories of residents and even entire buildings refusing to go outside for mass testing. Some are fatigued, others fear that being together brings infection risks.
Some think sealed-of entrances like this are to separate these folks.
Some think sealed-of entrances like this are to separate these folks.
The hope being that other residents of a community would not be punished for the lack of cooperation from a few. This might be wishful thinking.
Remember that it takes 7 days without a positive case to be permitted to walk around inside ones residential compound, e.g. the communal gardens. Another 7 days and one gets released "into the local district area."
We don't know if people not testing are counted as infections.
We don't know if people not testing are counted as infections.
A friend in another apartment tells me the neighbors have destroyed the fence installed in front of their door. Apparently the local neighborhood committee had been told to install these. They complied and didn't seem to mind once residents took them back down.
This is Yongkang Lu, a popular bar and cafe street. It's usually extremely crowded on sunny weekend afternoons. To see these fences up with little official explanation is confusing a lot of people.
Meanwhile pictures of more barriers arriving are passed around on Chinese Social Media. Phrases like "Hard Lockdown" are being used.
This message, which is being passed around as official, declares that closed buildings "should be in hard isolation" and that locking-off closed areas (those with infections) should be accomplished by midnight April 23rd.
I would call this a fire hazard.
The worst part has been the awful communication.
As I am writing this thread a man is yelling at the top of his lungs at volunteers and a few cops.
As I am writing this thread a man is yelling at the top of his lungs at volunteers and a few cops.
