This afternoon.
Shanghai, China.
Shanghai officials will over the next few days further restrict access to food and hospitals in some parts of the city, the most severe phase of its extended lockdown yet.
Via BBC:
Commercial food deliveries are not allowed and access to hospitals for all but emergencies must first be approved.
Neighbours of Covid-19 cases and others living close by are also being forced into government quarantine facilities.
Shanghai is now in its seventh week of city-wide restrictions.
Despite the tougher measures, Shanghai officials insist that people living in half the city’s districts are now free to leave their homes and walk around.
State media has shown propaganda videos of departing medical workers visiting city landmarks together and taking photographs.
Shanghai moves to impose tightest restrictions yet (BBC)
Meanwhile…
The head of the World Health Organization has said China’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the virus.
“We don’t think that it is sustainable considering the behaviour of the virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing.
WHO chief says China’s zero-Covid policy not ‘sustainable’ (RTE)
Gates admits that lockdowns destroyed our society’s mental health and set us back years. pic.twitter.com/DFwGZp0ldP
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) May 11, 2022
Um.
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Meanwhile…
I have literally lost nearly all respect for 95% of the people that I know personally during the past 2 years.
Almost to the point where they appear as nothing more than clowns to me, solely based on their response to this situation. People I had held in high esteem.— Dr. James E. Olsson (@DrJamesOlsson) May 10, 2022
Snap.