Shanghai: 25 million locked, pets from COVID patients to be killed, suicides

In Shanghai, people are committing suicide from their balconies, and pets from people having COVID are being collected to be killed.

There is a horrible crisis in Shanghai amid a silent world where 25 million citizens are under strict lockdown for weeks, most running out of supplies, with no food, water, or access to medicines while COVID positive patients are being taken away, their pets are being brutally killed. Others losing hope have taken their lives, jumping from their balconies.

Someone tweeted, “26 million people in lockdown in Shanghai.  People are committing suicide from their balconies and Pets from people getting tested positive for #Covid are being collected to be killed and slaughtered in #Shanghai / #China.  This is pure evil!

26 million people in lockdown in Shanghai.

People are committing suicide from their balconies and Pets from people getting tested positive for #Covid are being collected to be killed and slaughtered in #Shanghai / #China

This is pure evil!

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— Enes FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) April 16, 2022

If the people protest, they will be arrested.  The government has told the people that their homes have been requisitioned and turned into a quarantine facility.  Here are heartbreaking videos of the pets.

It’s more horrific than we could ever imagine. https://t.co/OKg9LHlwFu

— Jayne Meehan (@Jayne44) April 18, 2022

He is telling: At present, pets in Shanghai are brutally beaten to death👇👇 https://t.co/cQcSIM9z8F

— Angel 7 (@zoetta20) April 16, 2022

Pets are being brutally beaten to death.  There was a tragic case that is going viral on video of a pandemic worker beating a corgi to death in Shanghai.

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The corgi’s owners had tested positive for Covid-19 and were being transferred to a quarantine centre.

The family decided to let the dog outside before they were quarantined in case it would starve at home. The video, which has gone viral in China, showed the corgi chasing the van for a short distance as it left.

The corgi followed this van carrying its owners before it was killed. Once the van had driven away, the worker, identified as a gate guard for the complex, hit the dog three times with a spade, killing it.  The dog’s distressed cries could be heard in the video, taken by a resident from her high-rise residential building, who yelled, “it is too cruel”.

A local official in charge of the community’s affairs told news portal people.com.cn that they killed the dog because they thought the animal posed a risk of spreading the disease.

“We did not fully consider the issue, and we have told the dog’s owner that we will discuss compensation with him later,” the official, whose name was not released, was quoted as saying.  The rage online was fierce and persistent. While the video has gone viral, a screenshot showing the worker leaning on the spade next to the dead corgi has also been passed around, in part because the video is painful to watch.

Stress is also high because the Shanghai district where the incident happened, Pudong, has been locked down since March 28 in what was supposed to be a short-term attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus but has been extended indefinitely as case numbers continue to surge.

Shanghai reported 19,982 cases on Thursday.  Pudong is deserted amid Shanghai lockdown on the eastern bank of Huangpu River.  Authorities in China have killed dogs on multiple occasions during the pandemic, a point of conflict between local governments and many residents.

In November of last year, officials in eastern China’s Jiangxi province beat a pet dog to death with an iron rod in its owner’s home after the owner was taken away for quarantine. The officials had promised the owner that they would not slaughter the pet.

At the end of last month, a district in Hebei in north China issued a circular to kill the pet animals whose owners test positive for COVID-19, which received significant blowback and was reversed.

Last month, Chen Wei, a delegate to the National People’s Congress, the country’s top political advisory body, suggested the authorities set up regulations for pet quarantines when their owners test positive for the virus.

Apparently, there is a list of  75 suicide cases in Shanghai which is shared below.

saw this post with a list of 75 suicide cases in Shanghai…
75 lives vs minimum 1% mortality rate of covid which might means 250,000 deaths if not contained… deaths always a hard decision for leaders to make.https://t.co/TyqEdtNweD

— AM10 (@arcticmaster10) April 18, 2022

In this terrible situation of panic, the Chinese government is overacting to COVID-19 by locking up citizens and killing the pets of patients who have COVID because it is obvious that this wave is not deathly, it is rather like having viral flu, and surely, one does not lock up entire cities without the freedom to even go to the supermarkets to allow food, medicine, and water? The Chinese government has enabled a human rights crisis that is out of control and innocent people lost in the sea of despair are getting no help from the outside world too.