The official government ignored the plight of the people and used it as a political show of loyalty.
After a 40-day-long closure of the Gaocheng district in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, officials lowered the risk level and lifted the closure to a limited extent on Monday (22) under public pressure, but people are still strictly prohibited from leaving the city. During the closure period, 700,000 people in the area are facing Food and aid deprivation and are in deep distress. People involved in the disease control work complained that the officials are trying to keep Beijing and Hebei safe by over-preventing the Epidemic and causing serious damage to people’s livelihoods.
After residents of Shijiazhuang’s Gaocheng district continued to plead for help online, and then the public opinion was ignited by self-media, Shijiazhuang officials issued a notice on Sunday evening (21), saying that the district had been adjusted to a low-risk area from Monday (22), ending a 48-day closure of the city.
Ms. Wu, who works at the Shijiazhuang Epidemic Prevention and Control Center, revealed that the unsealing of Gaocheng, which also only broke down the seal within the district, still prohibits people from leaving the city. She stressed that the reason for frequent nucleic acid testing is the poor quality of the testing reagents, but because of corruption, these poor quality testing reagents can still be purchased in large quantities by officials.
Ms. Wu said: in fact, it is not unblocked, that is, low risk, can be is to walk around chanting, the principle is not to go out of Gaocheng, because close to Beijing ah. It does not move the nucleic acid test 5, 6 times before it is detected, a woman in the northeast 11 times to do nucleic acid to determine positive. The accuracy rate itself is not high, there is a woman is checked 10 times 8 times, Shijiazhuang there are several are checked 5, 6 times to find out. In such a short Time, let us do it three times (nucleic acid) it is all corruption. Shijiazhuang’s epidemic prevention command, are confirmed, quite shameful, right, are not published.
Ms. Wu confirmed that the quarantine measures have caused serious harm to people’s livelihoods, as officials refuse to bail out, banks continue to charge interest and force debts, and the vast majority of operators have gone bankrupt over the year. Many people in distress go head to head to commit suicide, but the relevant data no one can touch.
Ms. Wu said: the district last year a Family can still go out a person to buy food, today the center of gravity in Shijiazhuang well, all of them will not let out of the district ah. Those who sell vegetables he is not sitting on the price, are particularly expensive. What kindergarten la, training center la, the whole Education are dead, banks, insurance companies to collect debts are coming. People like this Shijiazhuang abound, is the livelihood of this piece, really people do not live. This year’s suicide rate is really high, but did not report this piece.
The government of Gaocheng District admitted to the station that it had downgraded the risk of the epidemic, but denied that it had lifted the closure of the city and refused to disclose more information.
Gao Cheng District Government: No, I’m telling you, the closure has not been lifted. The risk has been reduced, but the closure has not been lifted, you see the notice did not ah? So, you go to the Prevention and Control Office, we Gaocheng District Epidemic Prevention and Control Office, okay?
Ren Ruihong, a former executive of the Red Cross’s major disease relief program, noted that there are not many cases in Gaocheng, and that officials are pressured by the so-called zero cases to control the cases at every level with extremely harsh measures, which are destined to hit people’s livelihoods hard and make it even harder for them because of the lack of official relief and indifference.
Ren Ruihong said: has always been a high risk well, only today to solve the, now go out or very troublesome. It is to let you see this authoritarian rule of their calendar, it is the pursuit of that zero cases, in fact, the people’s livelihood paid a great price, the whole draft of the city are not managed by anyone, you eat what to drink, you find your own way.
Since January 6 of this year, more than 700,000 residents of Gaocheng District were strictly ordered to be quarantined at Home to ensure the safety of Shijiazhuang and especially Beijing. After more than 40 days of severe blockade, many people in Gaocheng District finally broke their silence and openly called for help. According to a local resident on WeChat, the majority of families are in urgent need of supplies, and a large number of people have lost their jobs and income, making it difficult to make ends meet, and even babies have no money to buy milk powder.
On the local government’s official website, Gaocheng citizens also openly cried for help, saying that they had been isolated at home for more than 40 days, and not only did they have no income, but banks continued to force mortgage loans and even added late fees, and the government just blocked the competition for epidemic prevention achievements, and people were suffering.
According to statistics, there were only a few hundred positive nucleic acid tests for New Guan in the entire city of Shijiazhuang, but residents of the city were repeatedly asked to take nucleic acid tests, in some cases as many as 14 times.
Following the outbreak in Wuhan, officials imposed a strict ban on the disease in Wuhan, all of Hubei, and many other parts of the country, which not only restricted the basic human rights of a large number of people and devastated their livelihoods, but also led to the death of thousands of seriously ill patients who were restricted from seeking medical treatment. To date, however, no official data has been disclosed on this issue.
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