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The first line of the national anthem is banned from social media.
Wut.
So frustrating and scary. Fortunately you have company at home. What about their food?
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Mad, this should be the pages of a dystopian novel not a real life experience!
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Grim :(
I don't understand it anymore.
The dystopian aspect, sadly I'm not surprised.
But surely they know Omnicron is just far too infections for this to work? It's nuts, is there some politicians ego thing behind it?
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This sounds truly grim, and my heart genuinely goes out to you and everyone else suffering. I am intrigued though - if everyone is locked in their flat/apartment or building, then how are people still being infected?
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Little update from Shanghai: day 22 locked in my apartment now, I've had 9 covid tests in that time. There was an announcement a while ago saying that if you hadn't had a case in your compound for 14 days then you would be "free". Well, we got to day 12 and then yesterday there was a new positive case in my building. In any event, being officially free doesn't mean that you'll be allowed to go out. A lot of people I know fall into the category of free but their compound/building management thinks it's too risky and won't let anyone out (Why don't they just walk out anyway you ask? Because the door is locked shut. But surely that's a fire risk you say! Yes it is and there have been several fires). If you're reading in the media that 5m people have gone free... that's not true.
Every day the statistics get released, listing how many cases each district and subdistrict has. Yesterday my district shot to the top of the leaderboard and my subdistrict is in the top ten for the whole city.
Government rations of food are a fucking joke. The most recent one was a bunch of the greenest bananas I've ever seen. Even the volunteers who distributed them were quick to point out that it's a "gift" from another region of the country, nothing to do with them.
Two districts have been announced as having achieved zero covid. One is a rural island off the coast of the city. The other is a large, rural area in the south where a lot of the factories are. Factories in other districts are operating as they are making workers live in the factory. "Closed loop system" yay.
My friend got a positive test two weeks ago and her partner was taken to quarantine as a "close contact" and she was told to wait at home and that she'd be taken to covid "hospital" soon. While in quarantine, her partner tested positive, but as she'd been taken to quarantine in a city 200km away she got to go to an actual hospital. A week or so later she got the two necessary negative tests and came home. Meanwhile! My friend was never picked up and taken away, and is now testing negative - but has been told that she will still be taken away and to stand by.
Censorship is at an all-time high. The first line of the national anthem is banned from social media. Videos are taken down, articles removed. 上海加油