I’m mainly looking for stuff about how people are supported (or not) during lockdowns and quarantine, etc. Anything I search about Chinese Covid lockdowns just comes up with a barrage of western propaganda. For instance I remember hearing much earlier in the pandemic that food was being distributed to people door to door in apartment blocks that were locked down and stuff.
Where I live the government just announced an end to isolating for people who test positive, and workers who aren’t entitled to sick leave will have to choose between staying home without pay or coming to work to infect other people :agony-deep: so I wanted some sources to throw at libs, along the lines of “the media says China’s lockdown is so draconian but at least they’re not forcing people to choose between starving and being a super spreader”.
In China If you test positive for covid President Xi personally breaks through your window, ties you up and throws you in a woodchipper. He then slaps your dad in the face then eats all his grain with a comically large spoon without once breaking eye contact.
then eats all his grain with a comically large spoon
Rice. He eats all the rice. SMH VoA is really slipping.
My girlfriend has been over there for about two months now. Upon arrival she had to quarantine for 10 days and test negative each day. A man in a full biohazard suit delivered free meals to her three times a day. The food ranges from crummy to decent. After getting back to her hometown, someone tested positive and visited a bunch of local businesses so the whole town is on lockdown. No one gets in or out other than food and necessities deliveries. She’s required to test once a day, a truck comes around and hands out tests. She was meant to go to Beijing to begin a research position but can’t due to lockdowns. Her morale is pretty low because she’s kind of a workaholic but she’s in better spirits than I might be. On the other hand, this has given her an opportunity to pursue some leisure time. There’s no real risk of her losing her home because she can’t work so she’s been filling her days painting, reading, cooking, and spending time with her grandparents.
Let me know if you have any other questions, I’d be more than happy to ask her.They’re taken to the hospital for quarantine and monitoring. They work out where that person’s been to determine where they need to enforce lockdowns. In shanghai, they were required to use an app to enter businesses which logged where and when you’d been to a place, but I don’t think they have that in her smaller hometown.
I haven’t heard anything along those lines. I can ask her but I imagine they’d just shelter the pets for a few days rather than fucking killing them lol.
Shanghai lock down was a shite show and deserve it criticisms. When the PLA have to come to alleviate the pressure, you know they’re fuck. Seem like deliberately sabotage zero Covid from the liberals officials. But other city usually lock down depend on district and area that got infected. They slowly relax the dynamic zero Covid policy now, I think they reduce it that you have to quarantine for three days now
I like reading the blog What's on Weibo, it kind of just goes over the latest Weibo trends and info which tends to include a lot of info about lockdowns in various locales. Really cool!
I've only got anecdotes. My fiancee's son and daughter-in-law were in Shanghai for its entire lockdown. They couldn't leave their apartment building for weeks at a time, but always had food supplied. They're in a fairly ritzy part of town all things considered, I don't really know how the decisions were made but they always had some kind of fruit & veg, and of course rice.
Toward the end they were able to walk around outside for a bit each day, I feel like that could've been coordinated throughout the lockdown since it was clearly done per building and then later in groups of buildings. Luckily their son was across the bay in Chongming which didn't lockdown at all.
