[The Epoch Times, May 23, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Lin Cenxin and Luo Ya interviewed and reported) The Omicron epidemic broke out in Beijing, and it has been a month since then. Officials admit that as of now, it is still difficult to achieve social zero. In recent days, including closing the doors of buildings and transferring a large number of residents of the community, epidemic prevention measures have become more and more severe. People worry that Beijing will follow in the footsteps of Shanghai’s extreme lockdown.
Beijing’s 9 districts raise the level of management and control, and the city’s large-scale home office
According to the latest official notification from Beijing, from 0:00 to 24:00 on May 22, Beijing added 83 local confirmed cases and 16 asymptomatic infections. The CCP is generally regarded by the outside world as covering up and underreporting data, and the actual number of infections may be higher.
The current round of the epidemic started on April 22. At that time, the official said that “the virus has been spreading hidden for a week”, and the hardest hit area of the epidemic gradually spread from Chaoyang District to Fengtai District and Haidian District. Fengtai District started to work from home on the 16th, Haidian District The district will implement enhanced management and control measures across the region from the 21st.
Officials admit that Beijing has not yet achieved social clearance, and has repeatedly screened out infected people from the “social level”. On the 22nd, 17 cases were officially reported from the social side (non-controlled areas), involving multiple shopping malls, including courier delivery staff, shopping mall personnel, etc.
From the 23rd, the official further upgrade the control. In addition to Haidian, Chaoyang, Fengtai, Shijingshan, Tongzhou, Shunyi, Changping, Fangshan and Mentougou have also implemented “upgrade control”. “Necessary and no mobility” is the principle, and work from home is adopted.
In the Dongcheng District of Beijing, there have also been positive patients recently, and all areas of the Oriental Plaza have been designated as closed and controlled areas.
Large-scale transfer, closure of doors, Beijing’s epidemic prevention is in anxiety
“Beijing Youth Daily” reported that at 19:00 on May 21, buses lined up at the entrance of Nanxinyuan Community, Nanmofang Township, Chaoyang District. Officials said that since the Nanxinyuan community was designated as a closed and controlled area on the 12th, 26 positive cases have appeared among the residents. Experts suggest that 5,000 residents of the Nanxinyuan community be quarantined and observed for 7 days, and the residents will be transferred to hotels. Disinfect the positive households and public areas in the community.
Mass transfer sparked public grievances. A netizen posted a video saying: “The leaders of the Nanmofang community are really talented. The neighbors obeyed the arrangement and got in the car and left. When we got to the isolation point, no one cared. We are still at high risk. There is no one. Come knock on the door and say that everyone must leave at six o’clock tonight, and the water and electricity will be cut off.”
Dubbing director Xie Tiantian posted on Weibo, “Maybe…except people in Shanghai, no one will feel sorry for Beijing Nanxin Garden.”
Some people posted, “After all, this kind of thing happened again in Beijing, it’s just your luck that didn’t happen to you, the prelude to crazy (homonym ‘seal’).”
Ms. Wang, a Beijing resident, told The Epoch Times on the 22nd, “The people who came to the door said that if you don’t leave, the water will be cut off, and it will be the same as the demolition. Just as much.”
In addition, a positive case appeared in Apartment No. 7 in Yuxinzhuang Village, Shahe Town, Changping District, Beijing, and Dabala went to centralized isolation.
On the 21st, there was a positive case in a community in Beidatun, Chaoyang District. The street office staff enforced the closure of the building. The residents complained that the building has 26 floors and more than 100 households were sealed in the building. Come and manage it, does it make sense to seal it like this?”
The practice of closing down the streets in the streets has aroused dissatisfaction among Beijing residents. Ms. Wang said, “These people started to do such reckless things, and they went too far. Anyone with a little bit of humanity would not do this.”
I am afraid that the leaders will pursue stricter control in all districts of Beijing
Under strict control, the number of newly infected people reported by Beijing in a single day has not exceeded 100 so far. Mr. Li, a Beijing resident, told The Epoch Times, “I don’t know whether his data is true or not, and how true it is. Anyway, this time Beijing (Seal and control) are stricter than Shanghai.”
Mr. Li said that the community where he lives has been unblocked and it is possible to leave the community, but all traffic at the place of work has been suspended. “The traffic in Shunyi is completely stopped, and the subway is also stopped, so I can’t go to work. I can only enter after leaving many stops. Subway stations. Everywhere, they are afraid that the leaders will be held accountable, and each one is stricter than the other.”
Recently, positive cases have also appeared in the Friendship Community of Haidian District, and 5,000 people have been transferred. According to the official announcement, starting from the 23rd, the bus stops passing through the West District of Zhongguancun in Haidian District and the surrounding areas of Youyi Community will no longer stop and get on and off passengers.
Ms. Wang said that Beijing’s lockdown has affected people’s livelihoods. “It has been a month since the outbreak of the epidemic in Beijing. Many people are unable to work. Restaurants and hotels have no business, and migrant workers have no work to do.”
Artist in Germany: The virus is not the devil as described by the CCP
Yang Weidong, a former Beijing artist who is currently living in Germany, said, “This virus is not like the devil as described by the Chinese, and it is terrible to contract it. I am in Germany and I often go out. When I came back, I also took planes and trains. It’s that (fear).”
Yang Weidong believes that the CCP has turned the zero-clearing movement into a political game, and dare not tell the people the truth, “There must be human factors in it, and it is very shameful to use people’s lives to make a political game. People’s lives are at stake, and there is no bottom line for being a human being. The Communist Party has done this kind of thing not once or twice.”
From the great famine in 1960 to sweeping the whole country to zero in 2022, Yang Weidong believes that it involves the evil nature of the CCP, “Today’s CCP system, from the central government to the villages, to the whole system of primary schools, it has entered the Chinese people. In the blood of the Chinese people, the awakening of the Chinese people is crucial to uprooting it.”
Responsible editor: Li Muen#