For more than two months, Shanghai, which is home to some 25 million people, came to a halt. Videos and online accounts documented officials forcefully entering residences to enforce quarantine.
, which includes long quarantine requirements for travellers and lockdown measures when a small number of cases emerge. In Shanghai, the city’s official WeChat account posted a denial, saying, “Internet rumors are not true. There are no such plans.” Two days later, people were told not to leave the city unless “absolutely necessary.” Then, just to clear the air, a municipal secretary told reporters, “We are not going into lockdown, and it is unnecessary to do a lockdown.
The night before Qin’s area went into full-blown lockdown, a member of his local neighborhood committee, the most grassroots level of party oversight, had told Qin to “stock up on diapers.” The young parents drove to a nearby Metro store. “Everyone in Pudong seemed to have got the memo,” Qin recalled. He still regrets a key strategic error: “What we should have done was to go straight to the produce aisles. Instead, we dawdled in the toy and milk-formula section.
For more than two months, Shanghai, a financial hub and home to some twenty-five million people, came to a halt. Avenues and alleys emptied out; vehicles and pedestrians were replaced by physical barriers and police roadblocks; feral cats rested outside a subway station that used to see daily foot traffic of more than a hundred thousand people; weeds grew on the Bund, a tourist trap along the banks of the Huangpu River.
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