{"id":1441505,"date":"2022-04-16T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441505"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:31:17","slug":"china-admits-shanghai-lockdown-causing-doubt-anxiety-and-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-admits-shanghai-lockdown-causing-doubt-anxiety-and-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"China Admits Shanghai Lockdown Causing &#039;Doubt, Anxiety, and Fatigue&#039;"},"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%2Fchina-admits-shanghai-lockdown-causing-doubt-anxiety-and-fatigue%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=1441505&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shanghai-officials-announced-phased-shutdown-divided-city-so-authorities-test-of-25-milli-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Shanghai\u2019s Chinese coronavirus lockdown, which began in full on April 5 and applies to all of the city\u2019s roughly 26 million residents, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202204\/1259394.shtml\">caused<\/a> \u201cdoubt, anxiety and fatigue\u201d among the financial hub\u2019s populace, China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> acknowledged on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper on April 15 detailed two especially tragic examples of Shanghai\u2019s plunging public morale in recent days, writing:<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>A phone call recording went viral of a desperate elderly man in Shanghai\u2019s Xuhui district asking the community committee for help as he ran out of medicine and food. In another sad story, a public health official in the city\u2019s Hongkou district reportedly died by suicide after he, like many other grassroots officials, had been relentlessly fighting the Omicron outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> said it interviewed \u201ca dozen residents in Shanghai from at least five districts\u201d on April 14 and learned they had all encountered adversity in recent weeks. The various hardships included \u201cfood shortage, delayed transfer of their infected neighbors to collective quarantine places, and the chaotic handling of residents\u2019 daily requests in some neighborhoods [by local Communist Party officials].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak allegedly began in early March, according to the Communist Party, and the city\u2019s government ordered all schools to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-shanghai-shuts-schools-due-fresh-covid-19-outbreak-2022-03-11\/\">shut down<\/a> indefinitely on March 12. The metropolis has witnessed its epidemic of the disease grow worse in the month since then, resulting in local Communist Party officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/04\/14\/videos-shanghai-police-berate-abuse-desperate-citizens-under-lockdown\/\">forcing<\/a> Shanghai into tighter levels of lockdown as the situation progressed. The Party <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220328\/e48f13e6fcb643f2822b372e5ec079c6\/c.html\">sealed off<\/a> one half of Shanghai for five days at a time from March 28 to April 5 to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus. Shanghai\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/shanghai-lockdown-deepens-after-new-surge-asymptomatic-cases-2022-04-05\/\">extended<\/a> the partial lockdowns to include all of Shanghai indefinitely in a surprise announcement issued to the public mere hours before the original measure was set to expire on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/12\/reports-shanghai-patients-die-as-coronavirus-lockdown-blocks-vital-medical-care\/\">failure<\/a> to properly plan or execute Shanghai\u2019s total lockdown has been exposed in recent days through anecdotal accounts shared on Chinese social media platforms, such as Weibo, by Shanghai residents. The leaked information, which Communist Party censors have seemingly scrambled to erase from the internet, details the dire circumstances locals have been forced to endure, such as near starvation.<\/p>\n<p>Videos that appear to capture some Shanghai residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/11\/videos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food\/\">screaming<\/a> in desperation from the open windows or balconies of their high-rise apartments went viral online in recent days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing &#038; protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: \u201cPlease comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul\u2019s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ZTc8fznaV\">https:\/\/t.co\/0ZTc8fznaV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAnEGOlBIh\">pic.twitter.com\/pAnEGOlBIh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alice Su (@aliceysu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliceysu\/status\/1511558828802068481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senior China correspondent for the <em>Economist<\/em>\u00a0Alice Su shared such a video to her official Twitter account on April 5. She <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliceysu\/status\/1511558828802068481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511558828802068481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fasia%2F2022%2F04%2F11%2Fvideos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food%2F\">captioned<\/a> the clip, \u201cAs seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing &#038; protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: \u2018Please comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul\u2019s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News cannot independently verify the video footage shared by Su.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai\u2019s Chinese coronavirus lockdown, which began in full on April 5 and applies to all of the city\u2019s roughly 26 million residents, has caused \u201cdoubt, anxiety and fatigue\u201d among the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}