Expats React to China’s Botched Covid Policy

Life in Shanghai’s Draconian Lockdown Part 9: The Phone Call

Expats are growing increasing frustrated with China’s overreaction to Covid measures

My 5 year old son just cracked his molar. I panicked. Because these days you can’t get hurt. It’s like living the life of a hemophiliac. You take things in careful strides. No rough housing. No jumping from the couch to the bean bag. Absolutely no running. My son is hyper active and so that’s cause for concern. The government doesn’t seem to care of the mental health toll it takes on children. Can you imagine as a child, being locked up in an apartment for 33 days?

Now that Shanghai has locked everything completely down it is incredibly difficult to see a doctor. Which begs to ask the question is the cure worse than the actual virus? During normal circumstances it’s difficult to see a doctor. People these days don’t like going because if you catch Covid while at the hospital, off to the gulag you go. Last week my son damn near got his bottom impaled by our exercise bike. It was bloody. For three days it was painful to move bowls. My wife was terrified.

Westerners in Shanghai and the rest of China are about tired of the zero Covid initiative evidenced in the phone call(see up above) given by a frustrated expat, who was given the run around by an incompetent government response.

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Wechat is riddled with steadily angry comments from expats who just want to get out of this mess and return back to their respective countries. This includes me by the way.

Expats are growing increasingly frustrated with the lockdown

I’ve been imprisoned for 33 days with the Chinese government showing no signs of letting up. Between the lockdown and constant cancellations of flights out of China, many of us feel like we are prisoners in a hostage situation. The American media, the most powerful disseminator on Earth is so focused on Ukraine(which is understandable) that this very blatant human rights abuse is almost being ignored. For now I keep a careful watch over my children, and tread lightly; because if any of us gets hurt it’s game over man…game over.

Forget about getting a plane out of here

99.9 Percent are not serious cases and no one has died OF Covid

Until next time kiddies…