For weeks, Shanghai residents were locked in their homes because of the Corona. Dissatisfaction with state leadership is growing more and more.
Beijing/Shanghai. In pale blue full-body suits, epidemic protection workers storm the hallway. Just moments later, the four drag a frail elderly woman onto the street. She screams like a madwoman, as if her life is on the line. But none of the neighbors come to the Chinese’s rescue. Like all infected people in Shanghai, she is taken to a central quarantine facility. What seems harmless is actually an inhumane camp in which thousands of Covid patients vegetate. “Like cattle” is one of the catchphrases you hear a lot from these establishments.
On social media, more and more Shanghainese are documenting the dark side of the anti-corona fight, which is being waged increasingly radically in China’s biggest metropolis. Since the end of March, most of Shanghai’s 26 million people have been locked in their homes, deprived of virtually all freedom. People can only go out on the street for the daily mass test.