Shanghai authorities have put fences up outside residential buildings as China doubles down n its ‘zero-COVID’ policy, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people indoors. Meanwhile, the authorities have ordered Beijing residents to test three times a week, sparking panic buying of food. MailOnline has more.
The largest district in Beijing… will require everyone living or working in the area to take three Covid tests this week, and put more than a dozen buildings under lockdown, after the Chinese capital reported 22 new cases on Saturday. The district, Chaoyang, is home to 3.45 million people.
The announcement set off panic buying Sunday evening, with vegetables, eggs, soy sauce and other items wiped off grocery shelves.
In Shanghai, images of workers in white hazmat suits sealing entrances of housing blocks and closing off entire streets with green fencing – roughly roughly two metres tall – went viral on social media, prompting questions and complaints from residents.
Volunteers and government workers erected metal barriers in multiple districts to block off small streets and entrances to apartment complexes.
In the city’s financial district, Pudong, the barriers – thin metal sheets or mesh fences – were put up in several neighborhoods under a local government directive, according to Caixin, a Chinese business media outlet.
Buildings where cases have been found sealed up their main entrances, with a small opening for pandemic prevention workers to pass through.
“This is so disrespectful of the rights of the people inside, using metal barriers to enclose them like domestic animals,” said one user on social media platform Weibo.
One video showed residents shouting from balconies at workers trying to set up fencing. The workers relented and took it away. Other videos showed people trying to pull fences down.
“Isn’t this a fire hazard?” asked another Weibo user.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Cindy Yu in the Spectator reports that Shanghai’s social media censors are losing control.
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Just Stop Oil.
This reeks of somebody else’s agenda. This airhead patsy won’t understand, even when she finds herself in a smart gulag exchanging slave tokens for insect protein. Glue yourself to that.
“The aspiring psychologist”
She needs to start by getting inside her own head.
How bloody THICK, are these youngsters?
Idiots like this are a serious risk to the planet.
And given her predilection for touring the globe, all by age 23, it is a reasonable bet that she has never done a day’s work in her life so who is funding her? Mummy and Daddy? If so it is a fair wager they don’t travel to work on bicycles and keep themselves fed via food banks.
Very much of the ‘hiding in plain sight’ which appears to be the modus operandi of the Resetters. I wonder if she is studying under the tutelage of the Davos Deviants perchance?
As CG says – “somebody else’s agenda.”
Security stood & watched ! meanwhile ordinary folk are arrested for driving slowly on motorways to protest fuel prices etc , all backed by the wonderful Pritti (awful) Patel !
Idiot
No surprise, every single one of these XR/Just Stop Oil nutters will be a hypocrite in one way or another.
Thick as pig shit as well, which is ironic, given that it’s the little people like us, (in their eyes), that don’t understand the issues.
Should have left them there…..few years time you’ve got a great contemporary meets traditional piece…..a couple of skeletons hanging from The Hay Wain.
Brainwashed into believing the lies. Critical thinking skills no longer developed by the education system. In a way, yet another victim of the lying evil cult’s agenda, groomed to believe in fake values & information & groomed to be compliant whilst believing that they’re doing something rebellious.
Calling these drones hypocrites is similar to calling Karl Marx a revolutionary – it’s true, but it also lends their ideology a credibility it doesn’t deserve. By getting drawn into comparing ‘carbon footprints’ and air miles, people are accepting de facto that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant, when the whole idea that this non-toxic, beneficial trace gas is a threat to the world is built on sophistry, fraud and demonstrable nonsense.
I applaud Hannah Hunt for helping to enhance the atmospheric availability of gaseous plant food, helping to very slightly green the planet’s arid regions, and for her contribution to the no doubt struggling tourist industries of countries she’s visited. May she continue to fly anywhere she likes for a very long time, and may her other weird glue-related activities bring attention to the absurdity of the regressive cult who have captured her imagination.
https://juststopoil.org/2022/07/05/just-stop-oil-supporters-glue-their-hands-to-the-last-supper-at-the-royal-academy/
Now The Last Supper.
Any chance these cretins can get prison time for this?
Reportedly, the French police recently terminated a road blockade by simply pulling the people away without bothering about the glued hands. That would certainly work wonders in England as well. And bill them for the damage afterwards. This is not a protest. It’s about causing criminal damage in order to get attention for preaching moronic sermons.
Agree, that would put a stop to it overnight.
Can’t really understand why the general public are so tolerant of these clowns?
Ooops forgot, majority of the public are half wits also.
Recreational outrage.
Her parents would have been on the CND marches, no doubt.
I think they have a good point to make. We should follow the Dutch and outlaw food to combat climate change – https://babylonbee.com/news/dutch-officials-announce-plan-to-combat-climate-change-by-outlawing-food