Peaceful Protests are Breaking Out Across Shanghai
Something I never thought I’d see
Tension here in Shanghai is threatening to boil over as residents in apartment complexes all around Xuhui (a district within Shanghai) begin to walk out together in protest of the mandatory lockdowns that continue to be enforced across the city.
It has been over two months since the Shanghai Government mandated that all people remain confined to their homes with no date given as to when the lockdown would end.
The early stages were the hardest, with food being difficult to order and all of us relying on the boxes of vegetables and rice that the government delivered to each family in the city roughly once per week.
Slowly, factories and distributors were allowed to re-open under strict conditions, and we could order food once again. Although, this has only been possible when buying large quantities, forcing customers to buy in volume or band together with neighbors and buy as a group.
As the lockdown has stretched on across weeks and months, the pressure from residents has only continued to grow. Within my building, in-fighting has started to become more common between those who agree with the lockdown and those that don’t.
