[The Epoch Times, May 14, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Luo Ya and Cheng Jing interviewed and reported) After rumors of “3 days of silence” spread in Beijing, it was then spread that colleges and universities stipulated that students “do not enter or exit”. Home office rest and nucleic acid testing for 3 days. People in Beijing told The Epoch Times that they had been tested every day recently, and their homes had been closed without warning. Some analysts also believe that most areas of Beijing are actually closed.
Beijing’s 3-day test refuted rumors of “silence for 3 days” and colleges and universities said that “no entry and no entry”
Today (14th), the Beijing Health and Health Commission announced that there were 40 new cases of local infections. From April 22 to May 13, a total of 1,015 cases have been treated in this round of the epidemic.
Beijing has a population of 21 million. According to official reports, the number of new cases in this round of epidemic is basically in double digits every day, with a maximum of about 50 cases and a total of thousands. It does not seem to be a big deal. However, Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the municipal government, said yesterday that the epidemic prevention and control situation in the capital is severe and complicated.
Today, a number of colleges and universities in Beijing have closed their schools, and the topic of “Tsinghua University: From now on, the school gate will not be allowed in or out” has entered the hot search list on Weibo. Don’t go out.” He also said, “Beijing Airlines and Beijing University closed the school overnight last night.”
Netizens ridiculed the authorities, “The whole city is silent. After the static management, a new word was invented, no entry or exit.”
On Thursday (12th), rumors that “Beijing will be silent for 3 days” appeared on the Internet, causing panic. Xu Hejian said that the closure of the city and the silence are all rumors, and there is no need to rush to buy vegetables. The police have arrested those who “spread the rumors”.
Yesterday, Xu Hejian also said that starting from May 13, using the weekend window period, 12 districts will further carry out three rounds of regional nucleic acid screening. He also said that on May 13, he advocated working from home, resting at home on the 14th and 15th, and participating in nucleic acid screening on the spot. Beijing has 16 districts.
Beijing also requires that from May 12, entering public places such as party and government organs, enterprises, institutions and other social units, business buildings, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and restaurants must check the negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours.
“Beijing is actually closed. Although the time is only 3 days, and the scope only occupies 12 of the 16 districts, this still does not change the nature of the closure.” Current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan wrote in “Foresight Quick Review” Analysis on the show.
Citizens sealed off by residence: like lambs to be slaughtered
Some residents in Beijing complained about the authorities’ closure and prosecution, “every time they are executed first and then file”, “the people are not given the right to say ‘no’, there is no dignity at all, and there is no human rights at all.”
The resident of Yongshun Town, Tongzhou, Ms. Zhang told The Epoch Times, “I feel like a lamb to be slaughtered.
Miss Zhang introduced, “This unit in my house started on May 5. Dabai patted the door in the morning to do nucleic acid testing, and then the unit began to be closed. The neighborhood committee said that there was a positive visitor, but nothing was found among the positives reported in the news. One case is related to us. The information is completely opaque.”
“An uncle from our same unit said in the WeChat group: He has lived enough, and if he wants to be taken away, he will jump from the upstairs. We have not received an official notification since the lockdown started, and we don’t know which one it is. The positives come to our unit and we don’t know anything.”
Miss Zhang said, “At about 11:00 a.m. on May 14th, Dabai patted the door and asked for a magnetic card. As soon as the door was opened, the police would call the police, saying that it was a request from the upper management, and they were just performing tasks.”
She began to complain about this, but “the complaint phone has been unable to get through, and the Tongzhou Epidemic Prevention Office has been busy and can’t get through. There is no place for us to speak rationally. People from the neighborhood committee have repeatedly asked us to understand them. It is not them who are quarantined and quarantined, who understands. Us? Does anyone respect us?”
On the Internet, many Beijing residents posted posts that their homes were being blocked. Dabai gathered outside their houses and were busy blocking the streets with barbed wire, preventing citizens from leaving the community. Citizens complained, “crazy”, “take out everything on the battlefield”, “concentration camp”.
Residents of a neighborhood in Beijing protest against quarantine
Residents of a community in Beijing’s Chaoyang District were not positive or in close contact, so they refused hard isolation. All the residents of this community went to the neighborhood committee to protest.
The resident representative said that the disease control policy has no legal effect. “We are confined like animals. We cannot accept it. It is useless for us to go to the police. We go to a lawyer, and the lawyer cannot solve the problem for us.”
The resident representative said, “The biggest concession we can make is that we can go downstairs in batches and time, because there is no law to restrict us from going out, and we have made the biggest concession. We need a way to treat us as adults.”
Mr. Lin, director of a company in Chaoyang District, Beijing, told The Epoch Times that Beijing, like Shanghai, must be quarantined if there is a positive or close contact: “One positive case was found in the southern district, and many people were taken away and quarantined. But most of them are In community isolation, only positive people and those who are in close contact with him will be taken away for centralized isolation.”
Citizens panic buying: panic is all official
Mr. Lin said, “That morning, there was a problem in the southern district. The iron wall they brought in was going to seal our community. As soon as it was about to be sealed, everyone went to buy it, and all the vegetables were sold out in the morning. The greens are gone.
“Later I bought two small pieces of durian. It turned out to be 100 yuan a pound. I bought a few things and spent more than 300, which is more than three times the usual price.”
Regarding the official so-called “three days of silence” to refute rumors, Mr. Lin said, “Is it really afraid of social panic? It is actually creating panic, and panic is all created by the government. The virus is not that bad.”
Now, Mr. Lin said, “Many stations of the Beijing subway have been closed, buses have also stopped, and various communities have also been closed. My community has been closed for several days, and it has just been lifted. But it is useless to unblock, transportation is useless. It’s all stopped, and we can only stay at home.”
Worrying that the official word will not count, Mr. Wang, a veteran cadre in Beijing who lives near Badaling, is also snapping up purchases. He said, “My family bought a few barrels of oil, ten packs of salt, and 300 catties of rice. I can’t eat much. It’s almost half a year. The mineral water just ran out, and it closed before I could buy it.”
“I bought some vegetables, but I won’t do it if I buy too much. If I buy too much, it will be rotten. I bought more pickles, such as soy tofu, fermented bean curd, and Guangzhou fermented bean curd. Oh, it’s been three years.”
However, Beijing logistics is currently different from Shanghai. Mr. Lin said, “Beijing has not blocked express delivery and takeaway, so there is no group purchase at present, and no national supplies have come in.”
Citizens are forced to test their lives every day
Beijing residents also complained about the government’s recent daily testing. Mr. Wang said, “I have been doing nucleic acid tests for seven consecutive days, and I have not found positive. I said what are you doing when you have nothing to do with food? I don’t go out. You are wasting resources every day.”
Mr. Lin also said that for a while now, “testing is carried out every day, and nucleic acid testing is carried out under the community every day. Because if you do not test in one day, a pop-up window will pop up, and you may not be able to go anywhere, so there is no other way but to test every day.”
“In all places, as long as you go to work and go out, you have to get a nucleic acid every day. Even if there is no case of the epidemic in the community, he does it. Even farmers are not allowed to work in the fields, and they have to do it at night. It’s ridiculous, just like engaging in sports. .”
Mr. Lin believes that, in fact, the virus does not have much direct consequences, and it is not much more serious than a cold. But if he does this, China’s economy will suffer a serious blow. “I don’t know if they are mentally ill or have other ideas.”
“It has made people’s livelihoods difficult. Basically, companies, including restaurants and beauty salons, are open for business, and the market is closed. All these companies are going to close down.”
As a business executive, Mr. Lin said that the rent has to be paid and the wages of employees have to be paid, but what if there is no income? “Anyway, I still have some income, and I can still do some work online. What about them? I don’t care about the lives of others at all. Like Shanghai’s control, the whole of Shanghai may die.”
Shanghai is the largest financial, industrial, shipping and trade center in the country, but after the city was closed, aviation, shipping, technology, industrial industries, especially the auto industry and its supply chain all stopped production. In 2021, Shanghai’s GDP will be 4.32 trillion yuan. If calculated on average, one day of closure of the city is equivalent to a direct loss of 11.84 billion yuan.
Mr. Lin said, “There is no GDP now, only this kind of group buying and nucleic acid, and the social and economic structure has developed seriously deformed. Most people are impoverished, their survival is not guaranteed, and some people can’t pay their mortgage if their house is cut off. What should we do? Everyone has to live. I really don’t understand, they are too irrational.”
Citizens: The government tramples on human rights and has no bottom line. How evil is this system
In Shanghai, many citizens told The Epoch Times that the virus has not been eliminated, but their trust in the government has been eliminated.
Mr. Lin believes, “The same is true for Beijing. After being hurt by this disaster, some people will gradually wake up. It is useless to say that enlightenment is the best way to reason. If you are beaten a few times, you will be relieved. I know how vicious this system is.”
Miss Zhang told The Epoch Times, “I hope to expose my real experience, so that everyone can see what kind of society Chinese people live in. Information is not transparent, the government tramples on human rights without a bottom line, and the news is all fake news!”
Despite the public grievances, the official insisted on clearing it. Mr. Lin said, “This is to prepare for a bigger crisis? To practice social control? I can only think so, if it is not too irrational, how can it be done? The economy will collapse.”
“It’s a bit like what we usually call a neurosis. But a totalitarian society is irrational and very paranoid. It goes all the way to the dark, and everyone knows where it ends in the end,” he said.
Responsible editor: Li Yuan#