Wtf have I just read? Toddlers/babies/children being forced to quarantine separate from parents in Shanghai?

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This has made me feel sick to my stomach. Those poor babies and parents.
It seems like such a massive overreaction as well?!

I can’t seem to link but it’s a Daily Mail article.

I can’t believe they are doing this!

It’s nothing new in China in the fight against covid - ie covid positive people (including children) being sent to quarantine centres

That's China's zero covid policies for ya.

Its inhuman. I don’t understand what their end game is. Zero Covid is impossible unless they lockdown their borders forever.

Horrific.

Do China know something we don't? Why are they going for zero covid.... My other half who is the least conspiracy person out there thinks it suspicious!

People aren't allowed out to get food and there's no deliveries and beating dogs to where the owner is positive are other sacrifices for zero covid policies of china. It still won't work. The people praising their approach have gone very quiet.

They did this the first time round. Nothing matters bar covid. There were posters on here who agreed with the Chinese approach.

Quite outing, but I'm stuck in it. We have food for now, but it's a struggle everyday to get food, and people are angry.

The logic appears to be zero-covid above all else, no matter the consequence for ordinary people.

We had many posters agree with China's approaches.

I think the people agreeing with China’s approach where when we weren’t vaccinated, it wasn’t as transmissible a variant and we were in a lockdown ourselves. So it seemed like it might be better to just come down on it hard and fast and be done with it.

I didn’t think those people would now be saying we should be taking children from their parents.

I'm not so sure about that, only a couple of days ago there was a post about how we'd never had a 'proper' lockdown and we needed one now. 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely none of china's response is justifiable and if never has been

It's just awful. What the fuck is going to happen to all the locked in undocumented workers living unofficially in the big cities I dread to think? Zero covid my arse.

China, and by proxy Hong Kong, have never evolved their approach after the first wave. They had success then, but not now with much more transmissible variants. They have not vaccinated their elderly residents to the level needed and the vaccine used is less protective against omicron.

The current lockdowns in Shanghai make me very happy that I no longer live there with my disabled child. I don’t know how we would have coped or, indeed, survived. Same in HK where we also previously lived: separate parents from children; extreme, immediate lockdowns.

I’d love to hear what all those praising China now think. Reminds me of listening to Jeremy Hunt on radio 4 in early 2020 telling us all how wonderful their approach was, having officials sit outside people’s homes to make sure they didn’t leave. Even then I was that he thought that was a good approach to take in a democratic country like the U.K.

*I think the people agreeing with China’s approach where when we weren’t vaccinated, it wasn’t as transmissible a variant and we were in a lockdown ourselves. So it seemed like it might be better to just come down on it hard and fast and be done with it.

I didn’t think those people would now be saying we should be taking children from their parents.*

Nope they were advocating still after vaccinations.

And if you advocate for Chinese government style lockdowns you advocate for this as it's the next conclusion.

@sashagabadon

I’d love to hear what all those praising China now think. Reminds me of listening to Jeremy Hunt on radio 4 in early 2020 telling us all how wonderful their approach was, having officials sit outside people’s homes to make sure they didn’t leave. Even then I was that he thought that was a good approach to take in a democratic country like the U.K.

Yes, that was wtf at the time.

Those poor people in Shanghai. The CNN report is absolutely harrowing.

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We had many posters agree with China's approaches.

Yes, im sure they will be along soon to tell us how amazing China are and how Boris wants to "let the bodies pile up"

China have a problem. Their vaccines aren’t very good. They haven’t vaccinated enough. & now they have omicron. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think they are barbaric, it’s genuinely dreadful.

@chateaudif I remember you posting in the early months of Covid. I hope you are doing ok

It’s absolutely appalling, inhumane and a breach of human rights.

It is odd. It's like an undeclared bio-eonomic war started by China. But the UK government realise this so have played their cards accordingly to escape the clutches of Chinese control via covid waves and their knock on effect of stiffling competing or threatening economies of the free world.

You don't understand , OP.
They have 'Proper Lockdowns"
Something Britain should have aspired to (witness 50 zillion MNer posts saying so)
#Irony

You Seen the stories about street rioting because of lack of food deliveries?

I follow some ppl (adults) on twitter in Shanghai covid quarantine. Not nice stories at all.