Residents of Shanghai, outraged by the COVID-19 lockdown, can be heard yelling from their homes in a recent video that has gone viral on social media. Several videos of people arguing with local authorities and threatening repercussions have surfaced on Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms.
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding of the United States posted a video on Twitter showing Shanghai residents from high rises screaming in frustration about the lockdown.
Residents in #Shanghai screaming from high rise apartments after 7 straight days of the city lockdown. The narrator worries that there will be major problems. (in Shanghainese dialect—he predicts people can’t hold out much longer—he implies tragedy).pic.twitter.com/jsQt6IdQNh
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 10, 2022
He believes the people will not be able to hold out for much longer, resulting in a tragic event.
Both “yao ming le” and “yao si” are phrases that indicate “life and death,” but they also mean “asking for death.” If this keeps going, the narrator hints that something bad will happen soon.
“The video has been verified by @patrickmadrid’s family. It has also been verified by my sources as commonplace. Also, Shanghainese is a local dialect (not really propaganda useful) – only 14 million out of 1.3 billion Chinese even speak it. I only speak it because I was born there,” Eric mentioned in his tweet.
4) China honestly might be hitting a breaking point with #Ba2. Either it keeps going with tragedies growing or it changes direction. See🧵 below. Hunger is growing fast. https://t.co/1F8iN65Zg3
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 10, 2022
COVID-19 Cases
According to the health expert, China may be approaching a “breaking point” with Omicron’s BA.2 variety, which is causing the outbreak in Shanghai.
On Sunday, around 25,000 people were infected with COVID-19 infections in China’s most populated city. Locals expressed their dissatisfaction with the food and basic supplies, and fear circulated that more cities will soon be in the same scenario.
Shanghai has a small number of cases compared to other cities across the world, but it is fighting China’s worst COVID outbreak since the virus first appeared in Wuhan in 2019.
What is happening in Shanghai? All about the Lockdown
Shanghai has been under lockdown since March 28, and authorities announced on Saturday that, following another round of mass testing, the severe controls would be relaxed in regions where no new cases had been reported in the previous 14 days.
Shanghai’s scenario highlights the rising human and economic costs of China’s “zero-COVID” plan, which strives to isolate every infected individual.
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Zero-COVID Measures
Initially, separate measures were in place for the eastern and western parts of the city, but now the entire city is subject to indefinite limitations.
Shanghai is the largest city in the world to be locked.
For more than a month, the key financial centre has been fighting a new wave of coronavirus infections.
According to residents in some parts of the city, the stringent policy meant that no one was allowed to leave their housing blocks, even to get vital supplies.
Only healthcare staff, volunteers, delivery employees, and those with special permission are allowed to leave Shanghai’s streets.
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When will the lockdown be lifted?
Shanghai has now eased some of the restrictions by separating the city into three zones: lockdown, regulated, and precautionary.
Areas with no new cases in a week will be labelled “control,” and if there are no new cases in two weeks, they will be lowered to “prevention.”
People in zones where there are fewer or no cases will have more flexibility, such as the ability to travel around their housing compounds.
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