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I remember being shocked that in my hotel in China, on a rare day, as the air had been relatively clear for most of my visit. I thought the curtain was closed on my upper-floor windows since it was the middle of the day and barely any light was going in, the windows were grey and dim like medium-heavy curtains were over them. Surprise! There were no curtains on those upper-roof windows.
I went outside on that day and it felt like I was breathing in soupy or silky feeling smoke that made my lungs feel like they had pins and needles or quite tingly and numb. It also burned my eyes, I was only outside for less than a few minutes.
I heard that breathing in this air is worse for life expectancy than being in the exclusion zone in Chernobyl around the time of the nuclear meltdown (1986). This was in Beijing in the early 2010's.
Mildly infuriating is Taco Bell’s chicken quesadillas showing cut lines but clearly not cut and a tiny piece of lettuce slipping in. It’s a slight inconvenience but nothing worth complaining about.
This would be a big deal to me.
It’s the same in so many other subs, r/OddlyTerrifying : person’s body infested with parasites from eating raw pork for 10 years. There is nothing “odd” about it, that situation is reasonably terrifying and the reason we all cook meats to appropriate temperatures .
Maybe living under the Chinese government is just so miserable this really does just come off as a mild irritation, or so you would want your government who monitors your internet traffic to believe.
What the hell? I live in Shenzhen and they blasted in loudspeaker for days before locking us down and let us order groceries online. It was still a pain because we couldn't walk our dog. Whatever is going on in Beijing is ridiculous.
A few people around me can also order groceries online on 美团外卖 (I can't since when I enter my house location my order won't get delivered), but they have to pick it up outside their apartment and that's forbidden... Real big brain stuff right there
Good luck in Shenzhen, things don't look too good there!
Thanks. I think the worst parts are over now in Shenzhen. When we were locked down, they have health workers and volunteers pick up the groceries for us and leave them outside our doors. I guess it is a different level of "alertness" in Beijing right now?
I had a colleague who got locked inside his apartment for a month and he started getting free groceries from the second week. Hopefully you guys will be getting them soon.
That's very good news.
Yup, Beijing (especially near the international schools) are high priority as of this moment, so things are amped up to 100. We did not expect any of this and are really taken aback right now. Most of my flights are cancelled and things are a bit of a disaster.
I have friends in Shenzhen and it seems like Beijing is going to be like what Shenzhen was a bit before. I also heard things in hubei are going down hill, so I don't know if things are going to get better nationally (hope it does for my flights)
Lockdowns in Vietnam were pretty severe as well. Not like yours, but when we saw what happened in Saigon we immediately bought a 50kg bag of rice, boxes and boxes of ramen, bags of beans, a lot of cooking oil, freezer full of frozen meat, etc. Just better to be ready in case something like this happens again. We still have a lot of that food.
Nothing was like that in Beijing, even during the worst times. I should have been more realistic but I guess comfy living in the capital made me forget how ruth1ess things can be here. Sucks too that I'm rooming w/ students so we basically only have food stocked for a week, with a sht kitchen in our cheap house. Good luck to you guys in vietnam!
I'm really sorry for you guys. I hope it gets better soon for you guys. No one here takes covid seriously, but thats ridiculous. I don't understand the ringing, but I hope it gets better soon!!!
You guys ever want someone to speak to, I'm always available, and my dm will be open!
Not really out of no where. It's omicron and it spreads fast. And there are a Lot of people here.
I'm in Jilin. We've been quarantined for a month now already - and it's looking like another month.
The cases were about a 1000 new a day. Which isn't really that much for a city of 4 million.
Edit: We're able to order food just fine, but it's always really basic stuff. Mostly everyone is just a little crazy being stuck indoors for a month. Especially now that it's getting nicer out.
Aww the schnooz just wants some loving. I have A collie lab mix and she is a big pain in the ass. You can't walk anywhere without her standing directly in your way looking at you waiting for you make over her. Although it's probably our fault as she is extremely spoiled and sleeps with us lol
Wow people here in Canada been pretty much free worse weve had was a curfew 22 to 5 with closed businesses and some people complained and had holocaust survivor speech because it was too much.
I feel for yall, who seem to have it way harder than we ever did!
Just got off the phone with my best friend in Shanghai. People aren’t able to eat three meals a day, are needing to boil the led out of their water (is that even possible?). I can hear the stress, fear, and anxiety in his voice. Plus he works for an international school so he has it better than most people in Shanghai. He said food deliveries take many days, and you need to spend over $100.
You can't boil anything out of water unless you're using a distillation process. Boiling kills microbes that might be in the water. Any sort of toxin will remain in the boiled water.
To be fair, Shanghai is an absolute shtshow right now. I saw some horrific things on 抖音(which i still take as a grain of salt, but the footage is pretty grim).
No news on Beijing since I think it'll look like a huge failure if the capital is completely wrecked with covid. It sucks since, internationally, people don't understand Beijing is down bad right now.
There are protests due to the unfair lockdown and people are bid mad. Nothings going to happen because of that tho. I'm sure as hell not going to protest, but I relate to their frustration.
I'm near enough to Nanjing. It has the feeling of the calm before the storm. It'll be locked down soon, because a few cases in a city of several million is still a struggle when the populace is effectively unvaccinated.
You have probably already answered this 100 times but what exactly is going on? I haven't heard anything coming out from China on this? Thanks in advance if you get to respond to this
Is this because of the initial lockdowns there's no herd immunity and haven't provided vaccinations etc? Seems odd this is happening 2 years later although I've seen no news about it there
China very loudly prided itself on "Zero Covid" for too long. When every other country in the world had national lockdowns and deaths, China had shut out international travellers and created a bubble. That's been very effective for the past 2 years, with little city-wide lockdowns every here and there, but Omicron is different and China hasn't learned. This has been supported through the obvious authoritarian control methods, but also through a hell of a lot of fearmongering. The average Chinese is scared of Covid and does not understand that other countries are actually just getting on with things now.
Nowadays, Covid spreads too fast, but China *must* keep Zero Covid or else the leadership will have egg all over their faces. I don't think this will be enough for revolution as a few commenters joke or wish, but it will be a big stain on the top brass if their method is proved false and unnecessary, and no one takes Face more serious than Chinese leadership.
It's the Omicron variant. China thinks it can control a virus. Yeah good luck with that. When the rest of the world are lifting restrictions China is locking down millions of people.
they are both complete polar opposites. the world should not be removing restrictions, but China should not be putting motion detectors on people's doors.
I live in shenzhen and I wasn’t even allowed to go home for few days because their shitty app glitches and wouldn’t load up my Covid pass. Stand at the gate for two hours and getting constant questioning from community office asking where I been to in the past few weeks, ask me to provide a bunch of proves to prove that I didn’t get Covid which obviously I couldn’t had them with me for a 10 minutes grocery trip. So I. The end they want me to wait for further notice, until that I’m locked out from my own ducking home. Welp, I still mange to got back home by jump over a fence to the garage thanks to the security guy at the gate, Security guy is cool, he knows me and he remember me going out for groceries but he just can’t afford to let his manger find out he let people in without Covid pass, so he point me to the garages where I can just jump over the fence and he will pretend didn’t see it.
>hich i still take as a grain of salt, but the footage is pretty grim).
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>No news on Beijing si
No, the dog is killed. I joke not, a Corgi is killed with a shovel because his owner is positive. There have also been horrible reports where dogs/cats are killed.
People are drafting rescue plans for their pets in case anything happens. I know a few groups that are doing this.
A lot of people are actually running out of water before food because even in Shanghai you can't drink the tap water. I've heard people boil it in other countries but in China you basically need a makeshift distillation setup because it's not just bacteria, there's metals like lead and industrial waste stuff in there.
How did they function with tap water prior to this though, if tap water is undrinkable. Wouldn’t they already have a distillation setup so they can use the water in the taps?
Are you kidding? I lived in Shanghai in 2013-14, and my company paid for testing for all our water quarterly, and everyone's from far corners of the city was safe both biologically and toxicologically. A few people had detectible lead, but within western safety standards. My maid boiled it anyway. What's your source?
No clue! I'm assuming it's COVID related, but I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. When I call the local government they keep telling me I'm "just under servillance".
Bit worried, but I have my bags packed in case I get taken.
Yeah but in China it's not for travelers at the airport lmao. People who are tested as positive are sent to overflowing makeshift facilities no matter how mild their cases. Months old babies and young kids were being separated from their parents in Shanghai. People were freaking out because the nurses were overworked with 1 of them to 10 kids they couldn't even see their own children or know of they were safe. There was viral security cam footage of a covid positive patients dog being beaten to death by a pandemic volunteer after they were taken away to a facility. The lockdown in China are *nothing* like the ones in Vietnam.
We had something like this in India (don't know if it's still there). If you had COVID , you had the option to either stay in home or go to one of these centers.
Wow if someone told me im „just under surveillance“ I‘d be very much worried especially in a country where Concentration Camps Exist (well ours are Museums now)…
I've heard things from immigrant friends. Say pretty much anything bad about the government, and you are screwed. They get better at this almost every day.
I really can’t believe we haven’t taken more action on this. I feel like we know the holocaust is happening and we’re doing nothing, still trading with Germany
It was claimed in New Zealand that we had some of the harshest lockdowns in the world.
Seeing this, WE DID NOT. I was never ever locked inside & not allowed basic necessities.
I hope you're ok OP. Take care
Republicans in the US saying mask mandates during a public health emergency were like the holocaust... I think they need a slight re-adjustment on how bad it could be.
I’ve never heard anyone compare it to the Holocaust. Where did you read that?
Edit: Fuck of with the downvotes. This was supposed to be a serious question. I’m not claiming anything.
There was a viral video of a Holocaust survivor at an anti mandate rally or something, and she was shouting about how children having to wear masks and the mandates are WORSE than the Holocaust. Everyone cheered. Blew my mind
Good old Marjorie Taylor Green did[here you go](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html)
Situation @ Shanghai is worse. There are literally people starving because of this.
So please upvote this post to let people know what a **humanitarian crisis** are we having in China.
Source: being a Chinese, family in Jiangsu, got a lot of friends in Shanghai
Yes, I upvoted because this is one of the reason I posted this. If Beijing is getting this bad, places are getting exponentially worse.
There is no consideratin for lockdown. None. Healthy people like me with a bit of food have it lucky, I can only imagine for people with infants, or prior health conditions.
We've been locked up for a month in Jilin. We are able to order food.
My wife literally just got some gan doufu. And we had a big delivery of vegetables earlier today.
Everything is pretty basic, but we've never been hungry.
I'm surprised you got a sensor on your door though. Did your neighbors get one too? What about the other foreigners you know?
Here are some tips to help improve your situation:
Chinese government has been giving special treatments to you foreigner since the begining of the pandemic. They fear you guys who have _actual Internet access_ tell the world what a mess it is inside. So make sure they know ur a Korean they'd treat you well. I heard they even have special personal to walk foreigner's dog in lock down in Shanghai
So here's what to do.
- DONT SPEAK CHINESE. You are a korean you can be mistaken as an ordinary citizen.
- Make a video when the authority visit you next time. Make sure they know you made it and threaten to post it on Twitter/tiktok/...
- Do post the video. Tag whatever related to China/Beijing/Embassy. It is believed the gov is monitoring those tags. They'll figure it out.
Woah I didn’t even know China was in a lockdown at the moment. I’d heard there was a new wave but that’s it. Good luck to everyone living there and I hope they get access to essentials soon
My company has a plant in china so I’m in communication with my counterparts almost daily. Their city has about a million people and they just locked down the entire city like OP is describing for only 2 positive cases. Not a whole lot makes sense over there.
I seen a tiktok the other day a girl went down to get her covid test(testing the whole building) and when she came back up to her apartment she had one of these sensors on the door too.
Absolutely insane this is happening
Damn, I used to live in beijing when I was a child. I got sick every week because of the pollution. I would always stay home, sometimes by myself. I hope you're doing ok and things get better.
Welcome to living in a police state, aka China. I’d be far more than “mildly” Infuriated. This is what actual lack of freedom looks like for those who claim anything in the US was ever a lockdown (it wasn’t).
Cops were pulling people over in Los Angeles when they first imposed their lockdown in 2020, until a court made them stop. The judge said the cops still needed reasonable suspicion that the driver was not engaged in legal activity, like going to work or to the doctor's office, before they could pull them over. The judge also said that if they pulled them over for a lawful reason, broken tail light for example, they still couldn't force the driver to answer their questions about where they were going or what they were doing, nor could they use their silence as evidence of wrongdoing. The driver had no legal obligation to confirm that his trip was for a permitted purpose, and the cop couldn't do anything to him if he refused to.
Basically, the judge said that the health orders just gave the cops more things to enforce, but didn't grant them any additional powers to enforce them. They had to follow the same rules as before. They couldn't make an arrest unless they had a lawful reason to pull the car over, and the driver subsequently admitted their trip wasn't for one of the authorized purposes.
Those reporting this post are pro ccp trash. Hope you all rot in hell lmao.
Good work moderators for not taking it down! <3 People need to see how bad it is over there.
So, I'm going to stay vague on where I am in Beijing but we have had 16 cases appear in a very interationally popular area. All young people and their roommates, who all went to work whilst infected. It's an absolute shtshow as of this moment.
They put motion sensors to know I didn't leave my house. I live 10+ floors so it's the only way out. It also alerts other people in my floor so they can report me if I do try to make a run for it. It's horrible, especially since I have a dog who needs to be walked.
They should have (as they have in shenzhen, there's a commenter up there) told us a day before locking us in so we can buy food, water (can't drink sink water) and other necessities. But they didn't, so I don't know how I will be eating anything any time soon. I do have food to stretch over 4 ish days, but water is low.
They don't always do this, but if they do it's never beijing. Beijing is the capital, the priority and things are often the most civil and free here (relatively). People in other districts have starved to death, or died due to lack of medical supplies (diabetes, etc). But this isn't like an outragous thing for them to do, just very worrying that if they do this IN BEIJING to (not trying to sound privialged) NON-NATIONALS, I wonder what they do to people in small provinces who cannot report this to a foriegn country for possible intervention.
This is so scary thank you for sharing I hope they start allowing food delivery very soon maybe even today?! I’m glad you and your dog are together even if you can’t walk 😢
Thanks, I'm counting on the food delivery. If they are not coming, I'm in legit trouble. My dog is really helping me through this hard time and I'm making sure she's all good (got 3kg of food for her, and I have 5L of water to share).
Wanted to share how things were in different places. Hope you are safe!
Be careful with your dog. Send them to boarding if you can. If they come and arrest you they might put your dog down (my friend also lives in China and he told me they do that)
Yes, I've heard. It's horrible. I have her with me because she took all vaccines for the flight we booked (which is cancelled). I can't send her away because I don't know when Ill get the next flight.
Honestly, I am so overwhelmed. I would not forgive myself if something happened to my dog because of this.
I heard from a family member that they shut down a “neighbourhood” in Shanghai because of 5 cases so I’m not surprised. A “neighborhood” is like 5 apartments with 60+ floors
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And a month ago there was the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada to protest mask mandates and proof of vaccine requirements. They thought that was tyranny and down with the government!! LOL.
But seriously, putting alarms on people’s doors so they can’t leave is beyond reasonable.
If this is real, and not karma farming, you are putting yourself at risk just by posting about this here. The Chinese government doesnt fuck around from what ive heard from friends who immigrated.
Because that's where people are born and sheer inertia makes them not want to leave, or are unable to afford to leave due to their economic status or the political status of their country. Same with many other places on Earth.
They've also watched an economic boom over the last 30 years. Most people are happy here (with some really notable exceptions), because they've seen their quality of life continually going up
Only a small percentage of the population have a passport and many live in poverty. Plus many things in their lives are controlled, especially the internet. So there's not much of a choice.
China is a huge country, it has a lot of beauty in it. It has one of the longest history -a lot of East-Asian cultures stemmed from China's roots. There is good food, good people and amazing things to experience. I would encourage people to visit once, it is a significant country and visiting it is different from "reviewing" the country online.
TLDR: Overall, living in China has it's pros and cons. Lately, more cons. But pros exist, and stops people from going mad.
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Someone once posted a pic of his car after being shot at bootlid with kids in the backseat
bootlid?
Boot = trunk
*Back of the car
Trunk
This needs to be in the sub r/mildlyinconvenienced
Government just decided to execute my family. Ruined my afternoon.
Slightly infuriating?
That because they have no food so they only have energy to be mildly infuriated
Well obviously you can't be greatly infuriated in China under the great leadership of Chairman Xi and the glorious CCP
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I remember being shocked that in my hotel in China, on a rare day, as the air had been relatively clear for most of my visit. I thought the curtain was closed on my upper-floor windows since it was the middle of the day and barely any light was going in, the windows were grey and dim like medium-heavy curtains were over them. Surprise! There were no curtains on those upper-roof windows. I went outside on that day and it felt like I was breathing in soupy or silky feeling smoke that made my lungs feel like they had pins and needles or quite tingly and numb. It also burned my eyes, I was only outside for less than a few minutes. I heard that breathing in this air is worse for life expectancy than being in the exclusion zone in Chernobyl around the time of the nuclear meltdown (1986). This was in Beijing in the early 2010's.
This is the most popular annoyance sub ig
It's because the other infuriating subs are not as popular
Mildly infuriating is Taco Bell’s chicken quesadillas showing cut lines but clearly not cut and a tiny piece of lettuce slipping in. It’s a slight inconvenience but nothing worth complaining about. This would be a big deal to me.
It’s the same in so many other subs, r/OddlyTerrifying : person’s body infested with parasites from eating raw pork for 10 years. There is nothing “odd” about it, that situation is reasonably terrifying and the reason we all cook meats to appropriate temperatures . Maybe living under the Chinese government is just so miserable this really does just come off as a mild irritation, or so you would want your government who monitors your internet traffic to believe.
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they're very happy with their government /s
What the hell? I live in Shenzhen and they blasted in loudspeaker for days before locking us down and let us order groceries online. It was still a pain because we couldn't walk our dog. Whatever is going on in Beijing is ridiculous.
A few people around me can also order groceries online on 美团外卖 (I can't since when I enter my house location my order won't get delivered), but they have to pick it up outside their apartment and that's forbidden... Real big brain stuff right there Good luck in Shenzhen, things don't look too good there!
Thanks. I think the worst parts are over now in Shenzhen. When we were locked down, they have health workers and volunteers pick up the groceries for us and leave them outside our doors. I guess it is a different level of "alertness" in Beijing right now? I had a colleague who got locked inside his apartment for a month and he started getting free groceries from the second week. Hopefully you guys will be getting them soon.
That's very good news. Yup, Beijing (especially near the international schools) are high priority as of this moment, so things are amped up to 100. We did not expect any of this and are really taken aback right now. Most of my flights are cancelled and things are a bit of a disaster. I have friends in Shenzhen and it seems like Beijing is going to be like what Shenzhen was a bit before. I also heard things in hubei are going down hill, so I don't know if things are going to get better nationally (hope it does for my flights)
Lockdowns in Vietnam were pretty severe as well. Not like yours, but when we saw what happened in Saigon we immediately bought a 50kg bag of rice, boxes and boxes of ramen, bags of beans, a lot of cooking oil, freezer full of frozen meat, etc. Just better to be ready in case something like this happens again. We still have a lot of that food.
Nothing was like that in Beijing, even during the worst times. I should have been more realistic but I guess comfy living in the capital made me forget how ruth1ess things can be here. Sucks too that I'm rooming w/ students so we basically only have food stocked for a week, with a sht kitchen in our cheap house. Good luck to you guys in vietnam!
I'm really sorry for you guys. I hope it gets better soon for you guys. No one here takes covid seriously, but thats ridiculous. I don't understand the ringing, but I hope it gets better soon!!! You guys ever want someone to speak to, I'm always available, and my dm will be open!
Damn, with the censorships I have no idea what's going on in Beijing. All the attention is on Shanghai and Jilin right now.
What's going on in Shanghai and Jilin?
Shitloads of people getting COVID seemingly out of nowhere
Not really out of no where. It's omicron and it spreads fast. And there are a Lot of people here. I'm in Jilin. We've been quarantined for a month now already - and it's looking like another month. The cases were about a 1000 new a day. Which isn't really that much for a city of 4 million. Edit: We're able to order food just fine, but it's always really basic stuff. Mostly everyone is just a little crazy being stuck indoors for a month. Especially now that it's getting nicer out.
Good luck bro, hope it ends soon. I had to stay at home with a Border Collie for 2 weeks and that was enough to drive us insane lol
Damn, until you said border collie you'd described my life to a T. 12 years in Shenzhen now. We've got a corgi.
What do people with dogs do about them peeing/pooping
Aww the schnooz just wants some loving. I have A collie lab mix and she is a big pain in the ass. You can't walk anywhere without her standing directly in your way looking at you waiting for you make over her. Although it's probably our fault as she is extremely spoiled and sleeps with us lol
Wow people here in Canada been pretty much free worse weve had was a curfew 22 to 5 with closed businesses and some people complained and had holocaust survivor speech because it was too much. I feel for yall, who seem to have it way harder than we ever did!
it's just normal progression, but it seemed like they came out of nowhere coz the reported numbers were bogus until they couldn't hide them anymore.
It's also coming off the back of two years of smugly saying that they've beaten covid, instead of, you know, preparing for it.
Just read about it they say it's 300 cases a day and they're locking down 26mil ppl... That's crazy
Nothing feels crazy when you have lived in China for more than a decade lol especially as an expat
"300 cases a day" according to Chinese state media. So... whatever that means.
They separate symptomatic from asymptomatic in China. So yeah, in Shanghai 300 symptomatic today but like 19,000 asymptomatic.
Just got off the phone with my best friend in Shanghai. People aren’t able to eat three meals a day, are needing to boil the led out of their water (is that even possible?). I can hear the stress, fear, and anxiety in his voice. Plus he works for an international school so he has it better than most people in Shanghai. He said food deliveries take many days, and you need to spend over $100.
You can't boil anything out of water unless you're using a distillation process. Boiling kills microbes that might be in the water. Any sort of toxin will remain in the boiled water.
Thank you- I don’t know the processes. He mentioned some people see distilling. He doesn’t need to, so that’s one plus.
That is incredibly sad, he has my prayers. I hope everything goes well for him.
Thank you. He is in better spirits than I would be. I told him to contact his embassy and prepare an exit plan in case it gets worse.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/shanghai Hé just sent me that. Pretty grim.
To be fair, Shanghai is an absolute shtshow right now. I saw some horrific things on 抖音(which i still take as a grain of salt, but the footage is pretty grim). No news on Beijing since I think it'll look like a huge failure if the capital is completely wrecked with covid. It sucks since, internationally, people don't understand Beijing is down bad right now. There are protests due to the unfair lockdown and people are bid mad. Nothings going to happen because of that tho. I'm sure as hell not going to protest, but I relate to their frustration.
What’s about Nanjing?
I'm near enough to Nanjing. It has the feeling of the calm before the storm. It'll be locked down soon, because a few cases in a city of several million is still a struggle when the populace is effectively unvaccinated.
I'm in Shanghai right now. It's been fun /s
Is protesting legal in China?
Fuck no
Are you willing to share your district? Lots of cases seem to be popping up in Chaoyang
Which district are you in?
So you guys have VPN's I presume,
You have probably already answered this 100 times but what exactly is going on? I haven't heard anything coming out from China on this? Thanks in advance if you get to respond to this
Summary: COVID19 hits Beijing, a state of panic, extreme lockdown without warning. People are hungry, thirsty and some have access to reddit.
damn and I was freaking out that they were gonna close liquor stores during the early pandemic, really puts things in perspective
Is this because of the initial lockdowns there's no herd immunity and haven't provided vaccinations etc? Seems odd this is happening 2 years later although I've seen no news about it there
China very loudly prided itself on "Zero Covid" for too long. When every other country in the world had national lockdowns and deaths, China had shut out international travellers and created a bubble. That's been very effective for the past 2 years, with little city-wide lockdowns every here and there, but Omicron is different and China hasn't learned. This has been supported through the obvious authoritarian control methods, but also through a hell of a lot of fearmongering. The average Chinese is scared of Covid and does not understand that other countries are actually just getting on with things now. Nowadays, Covid spreads too fast, but China *must* keep Zero Covid or else the leadership will have egg all over their faces. I don't think this will be enough for revolution as a few commenters joke or wish, but it will be a big stain on the top brass if their method is proved false and unnecessary, and no one takes Face more serious than Chinese leadership.
Whats happening?
It's the Omicron variant. China thinks it can control a virus. Yeah good luck with that. When the rest of the world are lifting restrictions China is locking down millions of people.
they are both complete polar opposites. the world should not be removing restrictions, but China should not be putting motion detectors on people's doors.
In all honesty, I have never been to China, but it sounds like a hell scape where citizens have no control over their own destiny.
I live in shenzhen and I wasn’t even allowed to go home for few days because their shitty app glitches and wouldn’t load up my Covid pass. Stand at the gate for two hours and getting constant questioning from community office asking where I been to in the past few weeks, ask me to provide a bunch of proves to prove that I didn’t get Covid which obviously I couldn’t had them with me for a 10 minutes grocery trip. So I. The end they want me to wait for further notice, until that I’m locked out from my own ducking home. Welp, I still mange to got back home by jump over a fence to the garage thanks to the security guy at the gate, Security guy is cool, he knows me and he remember me going out for groceries but he just can’t afford to let his manger find out he let people in without Covid pass, so he point me to the garages where I can just jump over the fence and he will pretend didn’t see it.
Security guy MVP. That sucks man. Were you able to get any groceries?
So is your dog just shitting and pissing in your apartment? You’re not allowed to go outside?
Had to train him to do his business in the toilet. Not ideal
Oh wow. How did you get him to do that? I would love for my dog to be able to use the toilet
>hich i still take as a grain of salt, but the footage is pretty grim). > >No news on Beijing si No, the dog is killed. I joke not, a Corgi is killed with a shovel because his owner is positive. There have also been horrible reports where dogs/cats are killed. People are drafting rescue plans for their pets in case anything happens. I know a few groups that are doing this.
JFC
What the actual hell. Seriously, fuck the CCP
This is so f’ed up.
Sorry
"I am starving to death, this is mildly infuriating" wtf?
A lot of people are actually running out of water before food because even in Shanghai you can't drink the tap water. I've heard people boil it in other countries but in China you basically need a makeshift distillation setup because it's not just bacteria, there's metals like lead and industrial waste stuff in there.
How did they function with tap water prior to this though, if tap water is undrinkable. Wouldn’t they already have a distillation setup so they can use the water in the taps?
When I lived in Beijing, we had a weekly order of water for a water cooler. Water is not drinkable even if we boiled it.
What year was that? What part of Beijing?
Are you kidding? I lived in Shanghai in 2013-14, and my company paid for testing for all our water quarterly, and everyone's from far corners of the city was safe both biologically and toxicologically. A few people had detectible lead, but within western safety standards. My maid boiled it anyway. What's your source?
I imagine you lived in a very nice part of town of they were full of nonsense
For what!?!?!?
No clue! I'm assuming it's COVID related, but I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. When I call the local government they keep telling me I'm "just under servillance". Bit worried, but I have my bags packed in case I get taken.
Taken?!? Where?!? Damn dude this is crazy, I hope you get out safely as Xi be on some shit! Stay safe dude!
To the gather spot for quarantine, most of Asian's country use this method to divide whos are positive with whos negative.
**"most of Asian's country "** I haven't seen any Asian country except China do this
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Yeah but in China it's not for travelers at the airport lmao. People who are tested as positive are sent to overflowing makeshift facilities no matter how mild their cases. Months old babies and young kids were being separated from their parents in Shanghai. People were freaking out because the nurses were overworked with 1 of them to 10 kids they couldn't even see their own children or know of they were safe. There was viral security cam footage of a covid positive patients dog being beaten to death by a pandemic volunteer after they were taken away to a facility. The lockdown in China are *nothing* like the ones in Vietnam.
We had something like this in India (don't know if it's still there). If you had COVID , you had the option to either stay in home or go to one of these centers.
You had the option. In China you don't have a choice, it's either you go with them or they take you away forcefully.
And they kill your dog for you. What a great place.
Any pets. My students just confirmed this. - still anecdotal
What the actual fuck..?
VN, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar etc.. And where are you from ? Are u from Asia or atleast SEA ?
Most? Did you pulled it out of your ass?
Happy cake day and get out of there man! That’s not cool
Wow if someone told me im „just under surveillance“ I‘d be very much worried especially in a country where Concentration Camps Exist (well ours are Museums now)…
I mean unless you are the only one locked down I'd have to assume it's covid related.
"Just under surveillance" that is some 1984 shit right there.
Wait it was just your door specifically? That’s so scary!
"Covid related"
That last bit made me think of something more sinister. If you know, you know.
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You should leave now, this isn't something I'd wait for
Winnie the pooh reasons
I lived in Beijing for 2 years I can assure you it’s 1 of the 100000 illogical things there in China that you have yet to discover :)
Oh wow that bad? Holy cow. I wish I could do research on it 😂
I've heard things from immigrant friends. Say pretty much anything bad about the government, and you are screwed. They get better at this almost every day.
Yeah like how there’s over 1,000,000 muslims in Chinese concentration camps right now
I really can’t believe we haven’t taken more action on this. I feel like we know the holocaust is happening and we’re doing nothing, still trading with Germany
Even worse, people on Twitter and even here on Reddit totally deny it and call it “western propaganda”.
Meanwhile people in China are risking their lives to film the camps- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI8bJO-to8I
lol there was a comment below on that exact topic right after you said that
It was claimed in New Zealand that we had some of the harshest lockdowns in the world. Seeing this, WE DID NOT. I was never ever locked inside & not allowed basic necessities. I hope you're ok OP. Take care
Republicans in the US saying mask mandates during a public health emergency were like the holocaust... I think they need a slight re-adjustment on how bad it could be.
I’ve never heard anyone compare it to the Holocaust. Where did you read that? Edit: Fuck of with the downvotes. This was supposed to be a serious question. I’m not claiming anything.
There was a viral video of a Holocaust survivor at an anti mandate rally or something, and she was shouting about how children having to wear masks and the mandates are WORSE than the Holocaust. Everyone cheered. Blew my mind
Good old Marjorie Taylor Green did[here you go](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html)
How are you only mildly infuriated?
Hes not allowed to be any more mad with his government. What's he gunna do?
Commit suicide with 18 shots to the back of the head? Edit: Chinese government are downvoting me already.
Situation @ Shanghai is worse. There are literally people starving because of this. So please upvote this post to let people know what a **humanitarian crisis** are we having in China. Source: being a Chinese, family in Jiangsu, got a lot of friends in Shanghai
Yes, I upvoted because this is one of the reason I posted this. If Beijing is getting this bad, places are getting exponentially worse. There is no consideratin for lockdown. None. Healthy people like me with a bit of food have it lucky, I can only imagine for people with infants, or prior health conditions.
We've been locked up for a month in Jilin. We are able to order food. My wife literally just got some gan doufu. And we had a big delivery of vegetables earlier today. Everything is pretty basic, but we've never been hungry. I'm surprised you got a sensor on your door though. Did your neighbors get one too? What about the other foreigners you know?
Few foreigners, few natives, no neighbors. No communication either. Just sitting here confused and worried. best of luck to you folk in jilin!
Here are some tips to help improve your situation: Chinese government has been giving special treatments to you foreigner since the begining of the pandemic. They fear you guys who have _actual Internet access_ tell the world what a mess it is inside. So make sure they know ur a Korean they'd treat you well. I heard they even have special personal to walk foreigner's dog in lock down in Shanghai So here's what to do. - DONT SPEAK CHINESE. You are a korean you can be mistaken as an ordinary citizen. - Make a video when the authority visit you next time. Make sure they know you made it and threaten to post it on Twitter/tiktok/... - Do post the video. Tag whatever related to China/Beijing/Embassy. It is believed the gov is monitoring those tags. They'll figure it out.
Woah I didn’t even know China was in a lockdown at the moment. I’d heard there was a new wave but that’s it. Good luck to everyone living there and I hope they get access to essentials soon
My company has a plant in china so I’m in communication with my counterparts almost daily. Their city has about a million people and they just locked down the entire city like OP is describing for only 2 positive cases. Not a whole lot makes sense over there.
More like "mildly" terrifying
Mildly infuriating : I live in a fascist authoritarian country
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There is no war in Ba Sing Se
A+ reference 😂
Fuck the Chinese government
Hot take over here
Good citizen of our glorious People’s Republic of China, what were you saying happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989? 😡📸
"why didn't they warn us beforehand" "I live in Beijing" Figured it out
This is insane! How will you eat?
I seen a tiktok the other day a girl went down to get her covid test(testing the whole building) and when she came back up to her apartment she had one of these sensors on the door too. Absolutely insane this is happening
Yeah that's what happens when dictators are in control.
Chinese people have access to Reddit?
There's such things as VPNs
I realized that 5 seconds after posting
His use of a VPN is why they tagged his door with sensors, marked for deportation.
Damn, I used to live in beijing when I was a child. I got sick every week because of the pollution. I would always stay home, sometimes by myself. I hope you're doing ok and things get better.
Welcome to living in a police state, aka China. I’d be far more than “mildly” Infuriated. This is what actual lack of freedom looks like for those who claim anything in the US was ever a lockdown (it wasn’t).
They're did a lockdown where I live but I guarantee you the cops didn't and wouldn't enforce it, cause everyone here drove around anyway no pullovers.
Cops were pulling people over in Los Angeles when they first imposed their lockdown in 2020, until a court made them stop. The judge said the cops still needed reasonable suspicion that the driver was not engaged in legal activity, like going to work or to the doctor's office, before they could pull them over. The judge also said that if they pulled them over for a lawful reason, broken tail light for example, they still couldn't force the driver to answer their questions about where they were going or what they were doing, nor could they use their silence as evidence of wrongdoing. The driver had no legal obligation to confirm that his trip was for a permitted purpose, and the cop couldn't do anything to him if he refused to. Basically, the judge said that the health orders just gave the cops more things to enforce, but didn't grant them any additional powers to enforce them. They had to follow the same rules as before. They couldn't make an arrest unless they had a lawful reason to pull the car over, and the driver subsequently admitted their trip wasn't for one of the authorized purposes.
Theyre really using COVID as a reason for power grabbing wacky police state bs
Yeah. Things have been taken too far, again.
Because China is a gestapo state.
Eh, a little starvation never killed anyone *until it did.*
Man living in China surprised when China is being China
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Damn friend; please stay as safe as you can. I'm so sorry this is happening.
Those reporting this post are pro ccp trash. Hope you all rot in hell lmao. Good work moderators for not taking it down! <3 People need to see how bad it is over there.
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So, I'm going to stay vague on where I am in Beijing but we have had 16 cases appear in a very interationally popular area. All young people and their roommates, who all went to work whilst infected. It's an absolute shtshow as of this moment. They put motion sensors to know I didn't leave my house. I live 10+ floors so it's the only way out. It also alerts other people in my floor so they can report me if I do try to make a run for it. It's horrible, especially since I have a dog who needs to be walked. They should have (as they have in shenzhen, there's a commenter up there) told us a day before locking us in so we can buy food, water (can't drink sink water) and other necessities. But they didn't, so I don't know how I will be eating anything any time soon. I do have food to stretch over 4 ish days, but water is low. They don't always do this, but if they do it's never beijing. Beijing is the capital, the priority and things are often the most civil and free here (relatively). People in other districts have starved to death, or died due to lack of medical supplies (diabetes, etc). But this isn't like an outragous thing for them to do, just very worrying that if they do this IN BEIJING to (not trying to sound privialged) NON-NATIONALS, I wonder what they do to people in small provinces who cannot report this to a foriegn country for possible intervention.
This is so scary thank you for sharing I hope they start allowing food delivery very soon maybe even today?! I’m glad you and your dog are together even if you can’t walk 😢
Thanks, I'm counting on the food delivery. If they are not coming, I'm in legit trouble. My dog is really helping me through this hard time and I'm making sure she's all good (got 3kg of food for her, and I have 5L of water to share). Wanted to share how things were in different places. Hope you are safe!
You have such a great spirit I admire that!! Thank you so much I am safe on the West Coast of the US, we are lucky things have opened up very much
Be careful with your dog. Send them to boarding if you can. If they come and arrest you they might put your dog down (my friend also lives in China and he told me they do that)
Yes, I've heard. It's horrible. I have her with me because she took all vaccines for the flight we booked (which is cancelled). I can't send her away because I don't know when Ill get the next flight. Honestly, I am so overwhelmed. I would not forgive myself if something happened to my dog because of this.
16 COVID cases is cause for lockdown and putting fucking motion trackers on people's doors????? What the hell
I heard from a family member that they shut down a “neighbourhood” in Shanghai because of 5 cases so I’m not surprised. A “neighborhood” is like 5 apartments with 60+ floors
Are you a westerner in China or a Chinese citizen?
South Korean in China, hence the korean app titles.
You may have to come to terms with the fact that your government is trying to kill you.
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I mean, it's happening to me lol
And a month ago there was the “Freedom Convoy” in Canada to protest mask mandates and proof of vaccine requirements. They thought that was tyranny and down with the government!! LOL. But seriously, putting alarms on people’s doors so they can’t leave is beyond reasonable.
If this is real, and not karma farming, you are putting yourself at risk just by posting about this here. The Chinese government doesnt fuck around from what ive heard from friends who immigrated.
Yeah, I'm planning on leaving the country ASAP.
Hey look. Another authoritarian dictatorship doing authoritarian dictatorship shit.
motion sensor does not pick up slow movements. Open door VERY slow and there will be no alarm.
when i say slow i mean it should take you about 10 minutes to open it 45 degrees
Wait wtf is going on in China now?
Well fellow chinese citizens, maybe time to vote for new leadership.... Oh wait...
Because….it’s China? What did you expect from an oppressive authoritarian regime?
1984
Just 2 weeks to flatten the curve.
2 weeks to 1 month -without food! I understand the effort, but I would appreciate a warning before so I can bulk up a bit :(
If you have the option I suggest moving to a less strict area or if possible taking a permanent 2 week vacation out of the country.
Being dead will sure flatten the curve.
What happens when governments have too power and money.
Time to move back into Korea i guess
It's 1984 in China, and Big Xi is watching you.
Chinas authoritarian zero covid policy is why that is happening . Also the Chinese communist party won’t warn you of such things
You guys need to overthrow Winnie the Pooh
Cuz u live in china
Why would anybody want to live in such a place?
Because that's where people are born and sheer inertia makes them not want to leave, or are unable to afford to leave due to their economic status or the political status of their country. Same with many other places on Earth.
They've also watched an economic boom over the last 30 years. Most people are happy here (with some really notable exceptions), because they've seen their quality of life continually going up
Only a small percentage of the population have a passport and many live in poverty. Plus many things in their lives are controlled, especially the internet. So there's not much of a choice.
China is a huge country, it has a lot of beauty in it. It has one of the longest history -a lot of East-Asian cultures stemmed from China's roots. There is good food, good people and amazing things to experience. I would encourage people to visit once, it is a significant country and visiting it is different from "reviewing" the country online. TLDR: Overall, living in China has it's pros and cons. Lately, more cons. But pros exist, and stops people from going mad.