After more than a month of restrictions and two to three weeks of strict containment, the inhabitants of the Chinese metropolis dare more and more express their dissatisfaction with measures they judge “inhuman”.
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They are a few dozen to stand in front of the entrance of their residence, some in pajamas, but all conscientiously masked. Opposite, a compact troop of men in white suit marked “police” and armed with plexiglass shields. The next moment, the police advance on the protesters who are in vain to resist, and many of them are embedded. Two days earlier, the inhabitants had been ordered to leave their apartments in this rental residence Nashi International from East Shanghai. The authorities wanted to turn it into a positive patient isolation center at COVID-19. “I am disappointed and angry. We did not explain why our residence had been chosen. Is it normal to put people infected in the same community as healthy people? If they smoke from their balcony, we feel Since ours, “worries a 24-year-old community that was part of the protesters and prefer to keep anonymous. According to her, ten people were arrested.
Shanghai already has 160,000 places to isolate the patients from COVID for two to three weeks. But with more than 20,000 new infections a day, the authorities are trying to isolate more patients. A leak forward that exasperates more and more the 25 million inhabitants of the great Chinese metropolis, after more than two weeks of a strict containment that we do not see the end.
Through the city, the protests multiply. Some shout their despair from their windows. Others are trying to challenge officials visiting. Residences collectively refuse to submit to daily tests. On social networks, calls for help are legion: food supply problems, but also access to care to draconian procedures. Many simply express their misunderstanding against strict but badly organized containment, and have the feeling of being treated as “livestock”, subject to repetitive and deprived tests of less control over their existence.
“Temporary inconvenience”
Leona Cheng, 22, found himself in one of the isolation centers at the end of March, forty-eight hours after a positive test. In the middle of the night, it was assigned a marked plastic bracelet of a QR code and a number, by which it will be appointed for the two weeks of its stay. In the immense hall of the World Exhibition Center, beds have been aligned, separated by low partitions. No privacy. “The hardest thing was hygiene, tells the young woman on the phone, the voice still hoarse. There were no showers, even no running water in the washbasins or in the toilet. To wash or Hunting, a basin had to be filled with drinking water distributors. It was really very dirty. “For two weeks, she washing with wipes she passes under her clothes to avoid stripping in public: Men and women are not separated. “What’s happening in Shanghaii is unreal. People are hungry or do not have access to medical care, yet we are not at war! This policy is really inhuman.”
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