100 Percent Fed Up By Adam Wilson
As most of the world was moving on from the Covid-19 pandemic by lifting restrictions on schools and businesses, the Chinese government imposed a far-reaching lockdown on its second-biggest city last week. The lockdown is part of an exercise to test Shanghai’s over 26 million residents as a part of President Xi Jinping’s ‘zero Covid’ policy.
The lockdown was supposed to end tomorrow morning, but the Chinese government has extended it as it continues to test residents of Shanghai. There have been scores of complaints across the city about the government’s policy of isolating Covid positive children from their parents and a lack of access to food and supplies due to the lockdown.
Viral videos on Twitter paint a dystopian picture of the government’s harsh lockdown policy, showing what was once a bustling city of 26 million people turned into a ghost town overnight…
