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Day 47 in lockdown in Shanghai. According to the news, we're opening up! In my building, this means that we are now allowed to go downstairs to throw out our rubbish - until now we haven't been allowed to do that, we've had to leave everything outside the front door of our apartments and a volunteer collected it all. Such progress, so freedom.
Last night I sneaked out of my building and walked around the block in the dead of night, being careful to avoid junctions where I know there are checkpoints. I thought it would make me feel better to be out and about. Spoiler alert: it did not. I saw some of the new test centres that have been set up - portacabins where we will have to go for tests every 48 hours to be allowed entrance to offices, public transport and shops.
My district, like many other districts, is going for zero covid by making us show a negative antigen test before we're allowed to take a PCR test. A friend of mine has positive antigen test results so is hiding out in her apartment and not answering when the loudspeakers start up telling people to come downstairs for tests. Zero covid has been redefined at least three times that I can think of. We will achieve it, in the same way that a square peg eventually fits a round hole if you hammer the fuck out of it.