Original Article: https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/free-shanghai/
Residents of Shanghai have been living in a nightmare. In an effort to avert another global pandemic, and with COVID infections already on the rise, the Chinese government has implemented strict lockdown policies that have kept citizens isolated in their homes for weeks, the Independent reports.
No one within the massive city of 25 million has been allowed to leave their houses to get food under the country’s “Zero Covid” policy.
Government and private delivery drivers have been stretched thin by the massive demand, CNN reports, leaving many without basic necessities, a more distressing threat than COVID.
What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its authenticity: People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason. pic.twitter.com/iHGOO8D8Cz
— Patrick Madrid ✌🏼 (@patrickmadrid) April 9, 2022
Several videos circulating online show the sights and sounds of hundreds of thousands of locked down Shanghai residents screaming from their apartments
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Authorities have since grouped residential units into three risk categories, with the lowest allowed limited freedoms after a two-week period of no positive cases, but those in in high- and medium-risk categories are still confined to their homes, Reuters reports.
City official Gu Honghui told Reuters that Shanghai was divided into 7,624 areas that were still sealed off, with a group of 2,460 now subject to “controls” after a week of no new infections, and 7,565 “prevention areas” to be opened after two weeks without a positive case.
Those in “prevention areas” are allowed to move around their neighborhoods but must observe social distancing and could be sealed off again if new infections are reported.
In areas where restrictions have not been lifted, residents have found it increasingly harder to get food and daily necessities, while shortages of medical workers, volunteers and beds in the exhibition hall and other facilities converted to ad hoc isolation centers are putting more pressure on the local medical system.
Gu told Bloomberg that about 47,700 beds are available for COVID-19 patients, with another 30,000 on the way, but that more than 100,000 patients have been placed under observation.
Making matters worse, egregious tragedies have surfaced online, showing some of the worst cases of what people in Shanghai are being put through. Outrage was sparked over the death of a nurse who was barred from entering her own hospital under COVID-19 restrictions. Other footage shows multiple infants kept apart from their parents, being prepared to be separated from their families and moved to other facilities.
Another video recorded by a Shanghai resident shows a Covid prevention worker dressed in protective gear chasing down a corgi before hitting it three times with a shovel, CNN reports.
The dog was reportedly running after a bus said to be taking its owner to an isolation facility. Its lifeless body was later carried away in a plastic bag.
The residents of Shanghai are being imprisoned in their own homes and systematically starved to death, while their animals are being killed. The U.S. Consulate in Shanghai has reported “extremely limited ability” to intervene in such cases. We must call on the United Nations to ensure this never happens again!
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Source: The Animal Rescue Site Blog
