Big chaos in Zhengzhou; Chinese people's dignity is violated

Despite the high cost to its economy and its people's sanity, China is adhering to the zero-COVID policy of lockdowns and mass testing. Henan Province's capital, Zhengzhou City, has seen a spike in COVID cases for many consecutive days. Therefore, the city has implemented a quasi-lockdown on its 10 million residents. People in some areas must stay home, while others must restrict their activities to the district where they live. Unfortunately, several tragedies have occurred as a result. A video uploaded on October 28th shows a woman from Zhengzhou complaining that she has been locked alone in a laundromat due to the COVID pandemic prevention. Information shared by netizens in Zhengzhou shows that many conference centers are used as isolation points. For example, the netizen who shared the video explained that many people share the bathroom and the toilets are unspeakably dirty. Inside Zhengzhou University, students disclosed that they were asked to clean the entire dormitory block to prepare it as a quarantine point. Meanwhile, these students had to sleep on sheets in the library. Outside residential communities, officials nailed metal spikes to prevent people from escaping. People say they are kept in cages, and animals are treated better than humans. It gets worse. Things beyond human imagination have become evident in mainland China. This video shows a close-up of people isolated in outdoor plastic cages. How can they survive? The Chinese Communist Party CCP doesn't care. While most of the people are locked up at home or in quarantine, some have nowhere to go as they are shut out of their homes. City authorities suddenly imposed a snap lockdown, causing tragedy for some residents. This video shows a Zhengzhou man and his friend trapped in the wilderness for more than a half a month after camping by the Yellow River. With nowhere to go, they had to build a makeshift tent to survive. They relied on the remaining supplies they had brought with them. They fried eggs and made cakes and noodles to eat, and people nearby sent supplies to help them out. They searched for edible beans in the wild to round out their meals. They also caught a few fish. They can solve the food problem. However, they said that the cold weather and rain still threatens them. These stories all show people's misery under the zero-Covid policy. But the story of the Foxconn workers seems to be the most painful. Under Beijing's zero-Covid policy, factories are only allowed to operate if they apply closed-loop measures in which workers live and work on-site. Therefore, food for 200,000 workers have become a source of unrest after Foxconn, Apple's largest iPhone assembler, shut down cafeterias at the manufacturing site. Employees said that they were asked to stay in the dormitory. However, after 12 hours, no one came to perform a nucleic acid test, no one brought food, and no one showed up to tell them to go home or to stay. The request was denied when starving workers asked the pandemic prevention staff to give them a permit to go out for food. The two sides clashed. Zhou, a Foxconn employee who was released from quarantine, revealed that he had nothing to eat in the isolation camp and was very hungry. Meanwhile, some workers said only workers on the production lines were given meal boxes. A female employee who had worked at Foxconn in Zhengzhou for 10 years said that she was isolated in the dormitory and had a high fever of 39 degrees, but no one came to administer treatment. According to Bloomberg, an Apple representative mentioned concerns to Foxconn. A person familiar with the situation on campus told Reuters that Foxconn wanted to maintain its production, so it had to follow CCP's instructions. Accordingly, it had put workers in miserable conditions. Meanwhile, many calls to Zhengzhou's regulators went unanswered. As a result, many workers decided to leave. Yuan was one employee who escaped Foxconn's facility in central China. Due to the matter's sensitivity, he refused to give his full name. He told Reuters on October 31, We were shut in on October 14 and we had to do endless PCR tests and after about 10 days, we had to wear N95 masks and were given traditional Chinese medicine. Yuan's journey wasn't successful as authorities from the city of Xinjiang on the other side caught him 30 miles, 50 kilometers short of his destination in Hebei. Businesses also face the risk of bankruptcy when all residents are locked up. A female restaurant owner said, I was walking on the agricultural road from Jingshan Road to Zhengzhou Avenue and almost all the shops along the way were closed. One catering boss said that if the pandemic continues, he will abandon 400 stores to stop any more losses. Another restaurant owner said that if he closed his business now, he would go bankrupt. He would sell his house and car if he can survive another two months.