After the Covid outbreak, famine fears are returning in the isolated metropolis of Shanghai. Frustration explodes in desperate pleas for help from the population. But nothing indicates the end of merciless coercive measures.
The man runs in circles, caged like a panther in a cage. Filled with fervor, he shouts across the courtyard of his gated community: “What should I eat? What should I drink You’re killing people.” In desperation, the Chinese complained loudly that their grandmother was locked up, that he was running out of savings and that the government was abandoning the villagers. When a neighbor tries to calm him down, he replies, “I don’t care, let the Communist Party take me. Where is communism now? You bastards!”
It’s hard to see how China’s richest city has turned into a ghost town in just a few weeks, where long-forgotten existential fears have returned to people’s daily lives. People fear for their food supplies or that their own children could be taken away by authorities if they become infected. What is happening in Shanghai right now in the name of the “zero Covid” strategy is absolutely disgraceful.