{"id":1420151,"date":"2022-04-05T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420151"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:30:23","slug":"reports-shanghai-residents-trapped-at-gunpoint-in-coronavirus-quarantines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-shanghai-residents-trapped-at-gunpoint-in-coronavirus-quarantines\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Shanghai Residents Trapped at Gunpoint in Coronavirus Quarantines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freports-shanghai-residents-trapped-at-gunpoint-in-coronavirus-quarantines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Shanghai\u2019s coronavirus lockdown widened and intensified on Monday with no end in sight, even though citywide mass testing was supposedly completed on schedule with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/china-sends-military-shanghai-separates-children-parents-coronavirus\/\"><span>military assistance<\/span><\/a><span>. Residents report armed police officers flooding the streets as the public grows more angry and desperate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe armed police came on March 28 and 29, and there are a lot of armed police around right now. They had been keeping a low profile, but they are much more open since vice premier Sun Chunlan arrived here,\u201d a Shanghai resident named Feng told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/lockdown-04042022154017.html\"><span>Radio Free Asia<\/span><\/a><span> (RFA) on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThose of us who live near the airport were kept up all night because the rumbling sound from the military transports was so loud, and there were also helicopters flying constantly back and forth overhead,\u201d Feng added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another correspondent, an academic named Zhang Jin, told RFA there were \u201cspecial police with guns\u201d stationed outside his restless downtown community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey\u2019re afraid there\u2019ll be some kind of incident in Shanghai, which would be a big deal, so they\u2019ve been brought in to keep order,\u201d Zhang said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Zhang doubted his government\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d policies would be able to contain Shanghai\u2019s omicron outbreak, an attitude evidently shared by a growing number of residents, especially after leaked audio recordings of local health officials revealed the hospital system is overwhelmed and decisions are being made on purely political grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20530361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239758053.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A worker wearing protective gear (L) receives an item from a delivery worker at the entrance of a compound during the second stage of a pandemic lockdown in Jing\u2019 an district in Shanghai on April 5, 2022. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThey are now writing down people\u2019s positive tests as negative,\u201d a Shanghai health official said in a leaked audio clip. \u201cOur professionals and experts are being driven crazy because nobody is listening to what they have to say. This pandemic has become a political disease, consuming so much manpower, material and financial resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shanghai\u2019s lockdown was extended on Tuesday to cover all 26 million residents in every quarter of the city, even though only 268 symptomatic cases have been officially recognized. Earlier <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/29\/china-shanghai-is-too-wealthy-to-suffer-wuhan-style-lockdown\/\"><span>talk<\/span><\/a><span> of briefly locking parts of the city down in stages, so its vital industrial and financial operations could continue with minimal disruption, has been abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a growing number of members of the public shared comments and videos across social media expressing frustration with the blanket lockdown, authorities showed no sign of wavering,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/shanghai-lockdown-deepens-after-new-surge-asymptomatic-cases-2022-04-05\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span> noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The authorities <\/span><span>do <\/span><span>show signs of reverting to standard Communist procedure and forcibly silencing criticism. Reuters noticed that a petition to stop forcibly separating asymptomatic children who test positive for coronavirus from their parents vanished without a trace from WeChat after accumulating over a thousand signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At least one prominent critic of the Shanghai lockdown has mysteriously disappeared: disease prevention expert Zhang Wenhong,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/dr-zhang-wenhong-face-of-china-covid-battle\"><span>hailed<\/span><\/a><span> only a few months ago as \u201cChina\u2019s Dr. Fauci\u201d and \u201cDaddy Zhang.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Zhang\u2019s viral videos were shared approvingly by Chinese state media, winning him over 4 million followers on Weibo, China\u2019s version of banned Twitter \u2013 but in late March, he used that enormous social media platform to criticize \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d policies, and that was the last thing he said in public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the future pandemic fight, maintaining normal life should be placed in a position of equal importance with (virus screening). We hope that we can minimize the impact on our lives as much as possible,\u201d Zhang <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220324-china-s-fauci-calls-for-protecting-normal-life-in-omicron-fight\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on March 23, noting that Shanghai\u2019s medical system was growing \u201cstrained\u201d as coronavirus cases accumulated.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20530388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239680377.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20530388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239680377-681x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Workers in protective gear walk in a residential compound during the second stage of a Covid-19 lockdown in Jing\u2019an district in Shanghai on April 2, 2022. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Zhang\u2019s critical post was shared over two million times in a matter of hours, apparently catching the malevolent attention of Communist officials. Previously a fixture in Shanghai public health press conferences, he was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakinglatest.news\/news\/how-deep-is-the-epidemic-prevention-water-in-shanghaizhang-wenhong-disappeared-and-leftists-raised-the-line-to-fight-epidemic-prevention-policy-wu-jinglei\/\"><span>replaced<\/span><\/a><span> without explanation on March 28 and has not been seen in public since.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of RFA\u2019s contacts in Shanghai spoke of a food crisis looming over the city as inventories dwindle. Chinese Communist officials imposed the lockdown with very little warning, as they usually do, so there was no chance to build up stockpiles of food, medicine, and other essential goods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Few arrangements were made for resupply, possibly because Communist officials believed their own hype about the lockdown lasting only a few days. Among other logistical obstacles, trucking companies are reportedly afraid to send shipments into Shanghai because the trucks might not be allowed to leave after they make their deliveries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/shanghai-puts-whole-city-on-lockdown-as-covid-cases-surge\"><span>UK <\/span><i><span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Tuesday quoted messages of growing \u201cconfusion, chaos, and hopelessness\u201d from Shanghai social media, with many complaining about their government\u2019s \u201clack of organization and preparation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Residents took to social media to complain they are running out of food and cannot buy groceries, either in person or through delivery services. Others said the sudden lockdown left them without supplies of medicine for ailments such as diabetes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOver the last few days, numerous mobile phone footage that showed residents protesting against confusing lockdown messaging and being unable to buy daily necessities have been circulating online. In one video, several residents in a housing compound shouted: \u2018We want to eat, we want to go to work, we want to have the right to know.\u2019 The footage has been taken down by censors,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Guardian <\/span><\/i><span>reported.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai\u2019s coronavirus lockdown widened and intensified on Monday with no end in sight, even though citywide mass testing was supposedly completed on schedule with military assistance. 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