Anger Mounts in Shanghai Over Censorship as Lockdown Restrictions Escalate and City Reports More COVID-19 Deaths
Authorities in Shanghai are tightening the enforcement of lockdown measures as China’s financial capital reports more COVID-19 deaths and residents vented their anger over strict censorship online.
The patients who died had an average age of 88, all had underlying health conditions, and none had been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Shanghai government.
New measures include placing electronic door alarms to prevent those infected from leaving, as well as evacuating people to disinfect their homes—including those who have tested negative. Earlier this week, hundreds were forcibly evacuated from their homes to allow for buildings to be disinfected.
Meanwhile, a six-minute video titled Voice of April, describing the lockdown experience in Shanghai, has been widely circulating on Chinese social media despite censorship.
Shanghai’s lockdown is now entering its fifth week.
Destroying vegetables grown by local residents. Lockdown, food shortage…
More footage from Shanghai.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 20, 2022
This is a man made food crisis. pic.twitter.com/OsbilXHTLu
#Shanghai COVID police is destroying the grown vegetables of local residents, probably because they can't pass the #PCR test. What a ridiculous operation. Anything so crazy can happen under the authoritarian rule of #CCP. pic.twitter.com/vZOoHdfd4q
— Hongmin Yin 🇺🇦 (@HongkumiYiin) April 18, 2022
Children going to school in Shanghai, China. Zero Covid strategy. Welcome to a dystopian nightmare.pic.twitter.com/QNBVnpq8CL
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) April 20, 2022
#Shanghai, the quarantined civilians are rebelling against the government. pic.twitter.com/XwpkLcc9wz
— Protest News (@ProtestNews_EN) April 19, 2022
People also have the right to live in #Shanghai! They suffer from severe quarantine and government crackdowns, while losing their jobs. Why is the government instilling such fear in them? pic.twitter.com/s0123G40Ub
— Protest News (@ProtestNews_EN) April 17, 2022
People have limits even in totalitarian regimes #shanghai #chinalockdown pic.twitter.com/8Q42uF1RIn
— John Ford (@PDXFato) April 17, 2022
This is what happened in Shanghai, China. pic.twitter.com/vNlQiSTS4c
— Victor (@VictorloveKaren) April 21, 2022
Shanghai People Starving But Still 26 Million Refuse To Rise Up Against Government (19th Apr) pic.twitter.com/bTEc1rk1Yo
— OpenYourEyes (@HiddenTruth707) April 23, 2022
The inefficiencies and wastes of the socialist planning system are all too apparent.#Shanghai pic.twitter.com/0Lln9SvYrL
— Qinglian Jushi (@catminh17) April 18, 2022
Shanghai patients locked in temp covid hospital playing games to kill boredom.#chinacovid #chinalockdown #shanghailockdown #上海疫情 #上海封城 #上海方舱医院 pic.twitter.com/KDDn7c6p4G
— Everything China (@dreamonwingz) April 16, 2022
Exposing #shanghai pic.twitter.com/eW3bXMQQ6C
— Zoe Grimwood (@grimwood_zoe) April 18, 2022
In #Shanghai Shengqiao residential district, people took to the streets banging with their pots and pans to protest #starvation. #HongKong starting to look reasonable compared to this pic.twitter.com/5kpUEhTPnU
— Right Wing ONLY! (@RWonly93) April 22, 2022
Big Whites just beating people in the streets in Shanghai pic.twitter.com/XB9MxSvHMy
— 1776 Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 17, 2022
New masks for covid stormtroopers in Shanghai are proving effective. pic.twitter.com/ly9lAJrNZT
— Man in a shed (@herbthefox1) April 15, 2022
You may think this is a scene from Zombie apocalypse movie, but this is not. In #Shanghai, people are literally being locked in prisons by CCP under COVID-zero policy. pic.twitter.com/FsjyPq5mGn
— WumaoHub (@WumaoHub) April 23, 2022
Graphic content (Suicides on the rise)
No way to live. #Shanghai #CCP #ZeroCovid #COVID19 #China #AmazingChina pic.twitter.com/dGsQRKyEiK
— Quantumist-Sam (@martingalequant) April 15, 2022
an old woman suicide in Shanghai, her husband crying and waiting for the ambulance and police for more than 30min. still no ambulance coming due to lockdown.😡#shanghai #China #lockdownshanghai #Omicron #上海封城 #上海 #生命 #suicide pic.twitter.com/iIDz5eKi7X
— shanks (@angryshanks) April 15, 2022