[The Epoch Times, April 6, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Cheng Jing and Luo Ya comprehensive report) Today (6th), the Shanghai epidemic has reached a new high. “. With the implementation of the zero-clearing policy, secondary disasters have occurred frequently, violent epidemic prevention has been seen on the streets, and people have complained. Analysts believe that Xi Jinping has faced a huge challenge.
People: You can die any way you want, as long as you don’t die from the new crown
The number of new cases in Shanghai has continued to soar over the past few days, rising from more than 6,000 on April 1 to nearly 20,000 (on the 5th). Vice Premier Sun Chunlan of the Communist Party of China rushed to Shanghai on the 2nd, but failed to control the epidemic. The official report in Shanghai showed that there were more than 17,000 new confirmed cases yesterday (5th), a new high.
Shanghai officials said at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control today (6th) that the situation is still “severe and complicated” and that “on April 6th, another nucleic acid or antigen test will be carried out across the city.” This is the fourth round of testing in Shanghai recently.
On the same day, the Shanghai party newspaper “Liberation Daily” published an article on the front page saying that the central government instructed Shanghai to be resolute and decisive and act quickly and forcefully. There is no reason for leaders at all levels to delay or dodge…
At the same time, Shanghai has implemented the “zero policy”, which has caused serious humanitarian disasters and secondary disasters.
Lu media reported that Li Chang, a returnee who graduated from Tsinghua University, was hospitalized in Shanghai Rehabilitation Hospital a few days ago. Because medical staff were forcibly isolated, she had no one to assist in pumping sputum, and “suffocated to death in a conscious state.” “Shanghai Tsinghua Alumni Group” alumni criticized: “It was a mentally ill epidemic prevention that killed Li Chang!”
Previously, a nurse at Dongfang Hospital suffered an asthma attack and died without timely treatment. A resident of Pudong suffered an asthma attack on March 30 and also died due to delayed treatment for epidemic prevention.
In addition to those who died due to illness, a girl from a community in Hongkou, Shanghai jumped off the building because she couldn’t stand the Internet storm. The reason was that she asked someone to bring food to her hearing-impaired father, and gave a reward of 200 yuan to the rider who took orders from a distance, but was arrested Netizens accused the amount of being too small.
During the nucleic acid test in the Pengpu Street Community in Shanghai, a volunteer died after clashing with the public.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that a woman in Shanghai was forced to take a 16-hour bus to an isolation facility ten days after her nucleic acid test results showed abnormal results. Her only wish was to get out of there alive.
The woman was a victim of chaos in Shanghai, China’s largest and most prosperous city, amid a surge in virus infections, the report said.
However, the official data also shows a bizarre situation, that is, the cumulative number of deaths in Shanghai has not changed since the outbreak of the epidemic, which has remained at seven. In the past month, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Shanghai has increased from more than 4,000 to more than 40,000.
Netizens questioned why it is okay to die from any disease, but not from the virus.
Chen Pokong, a current affairs commentator based in the United States, told Free Asia: “There is a popular saying in Shanghai, as long as you don’t die from the new crown, you can die! This is the government’s position. Hospitals and emergency rooms are closed, and critically ill patients cannot be treated and aided. , Many critically ill patients died, starved to death, jumped to death, not the new crown death.”
Old gentleman: This kind of terror is worse than the Cultural Revolution
In addition, Shanghai has been closed for many days, and the people are seriously short of food and vegetables, and the authorities have not taken appropriate measures.
A Mr. Wang, who lives in Hesha Lane, Hangtou Town, Puxi, told Free Asia yesterday (5th) that he was banned from March 26th. Eat one grain at a time, like counting rice.”
Wang Jianhua, a Shanghai resident who lives in Pudong, said, “The 25th was closed until now. I read online that there are armed police stationed on guard, and they are all hungry. The common people are too hungry, they are anxious to find something to eat, and they are not allowed to go out. The armed police at the door are afraid that you will riot. It seems that there are many riots on the Internet, beating gongs and drums, screaming at night, and rushing out of the community cordon.”
Wang Jianhua said: “I don’t have anything to eat! It’s very difficult! Right now in Shanghai, it’s very expensive to buy things and buy secretly inside the fence, but you can’t get them online, and the state organizations can’t keep up with them. People are willing to bring them in, but they have to be quarantined for 14 days when they go back, and trucks are reluctant to go to Shanghai.”
A video of a closed community is circulating online. In the video, an old gentleman walked downstairs and shouted to the people who blocked him from going out: “What’s the name of this kind of thing, who is doing it? It’s more than the Cultural Revolution, what about moving the masses? What’s the purpose? There are no contradictions to create contradictions. No obstacles create obstacles!”
The old man continued: “It’s so terrifying, my heart is not good, I’m going to be scared to death with three stents!”
There are also videos on the Internet showing that some community workers could not cope with the grievances of the people and cried: “If the Shanghai government does not take good measures, it will really be in chaos. Although I am the secretary of the xx district, I also say this, really! I can’t do anything…”
“Cultural Revolution-style” violence on the streets of Shanghai
According to the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the Chinese military dispatched more than 2,000 soldiers to Shanghai on April 3 to cooperate in controlling the epidemic. The selected personnel are from 7 units of the Army, Navy and Joint Logistics Support Force.
Jiang Weizheng, a self-media person currently living in Australia, told The Epoch Times that he had learned from Shanghai’s internal news that when the troops entered Shanghai, it was not military control of Shanghai, but the removal of grass-roots staff. Because officials believe that grassroots staff do nothing, and the military is actually a tool.
People in Shanghai keep uploading local videos, revealing that “Cultural Revolution-style” violence has occurred on the streets of Shanghai.
A video posted by a Shanghai netizen shows that armed police or soldiers wearing protective clothing use brutal means to “drag” people out of their homes and force them to get into cars and send them to an isolation center.
Some people also photographed that many “armed” people were standing guard or patrolling on the streets, “Here comes the service from Shanghai? Bring batons, shields, handcuffs, and even a small amount of rifles!”
Twitter also circulated a large number of distress videos sent by Shanghainese. Some people tried to go out, but they were knocked down and beaten by seven or eight people wearing white protective clothing; some people were driven into a police car by three people because they asked him to check his police number on the road; another was dragged out of the house by the police, carrying The luggage was forcibly quarantined, and the police shouted: “Go forward, go forward! … I’ll solve your problem first, … These are all instigated by you!”
Free Asia reported that half of the people in Shanghai were locked in their homes for 13 days. Some farmers wanted to pick vegetables in the fields and were driven home. Some people got out of the chain door to look for food and were chased by the door, “How did you get out? How long did you live in? What day? Say it! You climb out from here to buy vegetables, and you tell me clearly!”
Analysis: Xi Jinping faces a huge challenge
The CCP’s “zero policy” has caused serious humanitarian disasters and secondary disasters, but the CCP newspaper People’s Daily commented on March 28 that China is a world-class top student in epidemic prevention. On March 30, Xinhua News Agency published a long article “Insist on dynamic clearing and do not relax”, promoting Xi Jinping’s personal command and deployment of China’s epidemic prevention and “pointing the direction.”
“Shenzhen Special Economic Zone News” recently commented that whether to implement the “zero policy” is a “system battle”, “national strength struggle”, “governance ability struggle” and so on.
Political commentator Hu Ping believes that the CCP authorities may not be unaware of the uselessness of clearing and the need to introduce a large number of Western vaccines. However, Xi Jinping has set one statue, and still maintains a dynamic zero-clearing policy for the consideration of maintaining personal power.
Jiang Junzheng quoted an insider of the Shanghai government as saying that the chaos at the upper levels is actually the fact that some of Jiang Zemin and Han Zheng’s old ministries have disrupted to a certain level here, and the chaos is directly at the grassroots level, that is, the grassroots management is too chaotic.
Current affairs commentator Yuan Bin analyzed that this Shanghai anti-epidemic war with the goal of “clearing zero”, on the surface, is about epidemic prevention, but in essence it is a political and power struggle.
“The Shanghai epidemic this time is no less than the original Wuhan. If it is not cleared, it will become Xi Jinping’s negative assets, giving the opposition within the party sufficient reasons to block his re-election. What can he do? Therefore, in order to block the party The opposition’s mouth, to clear the way for a successful re-election at the 20th National Congress, Shanghai must be cleared.”
“World Daily” described Shanghai’s closure of the city as more like “killing the enemy without a shadow and hurting countless self”. At this sensitive moment before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this kind of result of clearing and clearing at all costs, will it be wrong? Will it go the opposite of what Xi Jinping expects?
Wayne Rand, a China correspondent for The Economist in Shanghai, described on Twitter: “While the state media applauds itself, residents are suffering.” “The 25 million people here have become the victims of some kind of catastrophic political experiment. part.”
Responsible editor: Hu Yulong#