CN Man in China dragged out of home after allegedly refusing to go to quarantine facility - video in the article

Man in China dragged out of home after allegedly refusing to go to quarantine facility

Tens of millions of people in China remain under strict restrictions and a "zero-COVID" policy.

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Man in China dragged out of home after allegedly refusing to go to quarantine facility​

Chris Stoodley
·Lifestyle and News Editor
Sat, December 3, 2022 at 4:42 p.m.·3 min read

A man in China was forcibly removed from his home after he allegedly refused to go to a COVID-19 quarantine facility.

In a video CNN published on Friday, two men wearing white hazmat suits inside a home were seen trying to drag a man off of a living room couch. The man, who was yelling during the situation, was trying to get away from the two men while reaching to grab the couch.

The situation took place on Nov. 30 in the eastern city of Hangzhou, just southwest of Shanghai.

"He was identified as being a 'close contact' of a person who tested positive for COVID-19," the video's on-screen text read, crediting the Linping District Government as a source.

"Authorities also said they 'reprimanded and educated the relevant individuals,'" the video's on-screen text continued.

On social media, people showed their disapproval of the situation, with many calling out China's apparent approach to handling the coronavirus and following a "zero-COVID" policy.

"They do not play," an Instagram user wrote.
"There's something wrong about their quarantine that he's refusing," one person added, while another replied saying, "That's exactly what I was thinking. Seems awfully terrified."
"D—n, and folks in the U.S. complaining about wearing a mask," someone penned.
"This will bring on a revolution, that's for sure," someone else shared.
"They're eventually gonna make it worse and cause what they are trying to prevent. Mediating might help," one person added.
"But they are already in quarantine in their homes under their strict COVID lockdown rules," another wondered.

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China has been seeing unprecedented protests over its strict "zero-COVID" policy in recent days, with many people in other countries — like Japan and Germany — showing their support with their own demonstrations.
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of millions of people in China remain under strict lockdowns with the policy, which aims to completely eradicate the virus.

Dramatic protests in China's major cities, like Beijing, Zhengzhou and Shanghai, have forced the government to ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions in some parts of the country.

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Funny that china let something like this get made public at all given the current situation

 

[Beak Thing]

Never, EVER forget this is what certain people wanted here in the US and elsewhere.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Go find any thread covering when China does something like ban Onlyfans or similar.

People also say that North Korea is based, when they execute someone for things such as watching Squid Game, or listening to K-Pop. Although the latter maybe debatable, given how toxic that community is.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Oh man, chinese people were already getting openly upset after seeing that the rest of the world has moved on with the changing virus... If anything opens the door (even mid or longer term) to the CCP's undoing, it could be shit like this.. Especially since it is ruining their already hurting economy. Even before factoring in all the damage the CCP is doing in other areas of it (like media rules etc) or their slow motion housing/land implosion, not to mention their coming demographic shitstorm.

It would be so hilariously ironic if covid actually did (at least help) bring down the CCP in the end! lol

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Sadly they did not have a gun.

General advice to a would be kidnap victim is to fight. Never go along. Fight.

The left wants you disarmed so they can take you quietly.

 

[Harambe]

@Harambe, you seem to have some on-the-ground experience with how Chinese government policy works; do the people who do this kind of stuff act so forcefully because it's some sort of ideological thing that's part of their training, or is it more of a "I've got the local committee and the commissar riding my ass on this, so you drag these motherfuckers out by their ass hairs if you have to" kind of thing?

So personal commitment to ideology is very, very variable here. The party is at most like, 1% of the population, but institutionally it's pervasive. You don't have to be in the party to work in or for the government, at all. Police follow orders, they follow the laws, they do what they're told, just like anywhere else. Those guys were police most likely, the dabai (big white) outfit is ubiquitous and expected to be worn by any person working in this stuff, nurses or cops or whomever. Cops here are poorly trained for physical conflict, are often physically quite weak or out of shape, and rely a lot on their stun batons for any encounter. Any interaction with the police they intimidate mostly through numbers--I have personally seen that it can take upwards of 5 cops to give out a moving violation in Shanghai, and a crowd will invariably gather around any ongoing police interaction out of slack-jawed curiosity. Chinese cops are a joke in all but the most extreme of situations.

The local committee, the juweihui, their hands are tied by the street committee, the jiedaohui. Their hands are tied by the subdistrict committee. Their hands are tied by the district government, and on and on up to the stupid covid-19 prevention manual, 9th edition, or whatever. The government gives vague directives and goals, and they are left to meet them. They'll give directives like "in principle, close contacts should be allowed to quarantine at home" which means fucking nothing when your boss's boss gets demerits for every old person coughing on his watch. It runs based on managerial principles and promotion-seeking more than ideological fervor. Think KPI, think a peasant's desire to not be scolded or bothered excessively, not people waving the little red book, and you'll be closer to the soul of the modern Chinese.

The central government and the big municipalities are backing off in a big way, but it is a slow, uneven game of telephone to get the asshole in the juwei to stop being a retard. The old responsibilities of these people were hanging up signs, arranging activities for old people to do with their grandkids, calling gardeners to trim the trees and bushes, and keeping old people from arguing too much, pretty much just normal, municipal tard wrangling. They were benign until this last spring when they were suddenly handed a shitload of power they did not earn, deserve, or were prepared for. Imagine if covid prevention in a major city was handled by fucking homeowners associations, who were suddenly given authority over every aspect of enforcement. That's the biggest and most palpable failing: the government's weakest and most authoritarian link is actually the jackass working for minimum wage as a glorified building superintendent or the chair of an HOA-equivalent.

Some light at the end of the tunnel is that the protests worked, as protests tend to here--just not for the protestors. If the government goes far enough to make rich people wave around Mao portraits, they start to reconsider what the fuck it is they're doing.

Some headlines from the past week indicating they are in fact backing off:

Shanghai ends COVID-19 tests for public transport from Dec. 5​

Shanghai ends COVID-19 tests for public transport from Dec. 5

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Shanghai ends COVID-19 tests for public transport from Dec. 5

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State Council COVID prevention team exposes problems of excessive COVID controls, urges timely response to public concerns

State Council COVID prevention team exposes problems of excessive COVID controls, urges timely response to public concerns - Global Times

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State Council COVID prevention team exposes problems of excessive COV…

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Epidemic control measures should be lifted in a timely manner​

Epidemic control measures should be lifted in a timely manner

archived 4 Dec 2022 07:18:11 UTC

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Epidemic control measures should be lifted in a timely manner

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Some shopping malls in Guangzhou no longer check PCR test result​

Some shopping malls in Guangzhou no longer check PCR test result

archived 4 Dec 2022 07:17:49 UTC

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Some shopping malls in Guangzhou no longer check PCR test result

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China entering 'new stage & tasks' for Covid controls, official​

China entering 'new stage & tasks' for Covid controls, official

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China entering 'new stage & tasks' for Covid controls, official

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Breaking: Beijing stops asking for negative PCR test for metro​

Breaking: Beijing stops asking for negative PCR test for metro

archived 4 Dec 2022 07:17:30 UTC

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Breaking: Beijing stops asking for negative PCR test for metro

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Guangdong will allow qualifying close contacts to implement home quarantine: local official

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Guangdong will allow qualifying close contacts to implement home quarantine: local official - Global Times

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Local authorities urged to avoid long-term lockdowns​

Local authorities urged to avoid long-term lockdowns - Chinadaily.com…

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Local authorities urged to avoid long-term lockdowns

Officials from disease prevention and control department urged local authorities to rectify or avoid implementing long-term lockdowns while combating the COVID-19 epidemic.

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This is all just from the last week. The big rich cities are the postings for the next generation of leaders--they are desperate to get this kind of bleeding to fucking stop and for a face-saving way of 'prevention' to happen whereby everyone just pretends they're well, regardless of reality. The goal of the current policy they're promoting is to have deliberate blind spots and exemptions that allow for everyone to get sick, since the average asymptomatic to symptomatic ratio they're reporting each day is something like 8:1 or 9:1. If they're not requiring tests to use public services, businesses will get lazy and stop caring pretty soon too. Inshallah, Chinese people can get back to their chief hobbies of coughing, farting, dancing poorly to shitty music, working unsafely, littering, spitting on the ground, and squatting on the seats of sit toilets without having to show a stupid fucking 'health code' or 'itinerary code.' I'm looking forward to catching the coof.

 

[A-Stump]

Yeaaaa, this is the country KiwiFarms keeps calling "Based" for it's moral authoritarian horseshit. Good job.

That's like going to a high school and saying the entire place eats glue and shits their pants because the retard class is the loudest.

 

[Wormy]

That's like going to a high school and saying the entire place eats glue and shits their pants because the retard class is the loudest.

If those retard classes are the highest rated and those who don't eat glue and shit their pants are negrated, yes.

 

[Snekposter]

If those retard classes are the highest rated and those who don't eat glue and shit their pants are negrated, yes.

I don't know where the fuck you've been but near as I can tell China is near-universally reviled for being a bunch of authoritarian fuckheads with overinflated egos and no idea of personal hygiene or any pretense of concern for anyone or anything that isn't an immediate self-benefit.

 

[Wormy]

I don't know where the fuck you've been but near as I can tell China is near-universally reviled for being a bunch of authoritarian fuckheads with overinflated egos and no idea of personal hygiene or any pretense of concern for anyone or anything that isn't an immediate self-benefit.

It's called KiwiFarms. You're in it.

 

[Coldgrip]

It's called KiwiFarms. You're in it.

Damn, imagine taking a bunch of randos hyperbole this seriously.

Get laid, femcel.

 

[Wormy]

Damn, imagine taking a bunch of randos hyperbole this seriously.

Yea, imagine taking people at their word. I grew up in a different time, sport.

Get laid, femcel.

Femcel? Fucking HELL, man, that's a distant corner of the "Random Kiwifarmer insults" Bingo card. Never anticipated to ever get it, thank you!

 

[Coldgrip]

Yea, imagine taking people at their word. I grew up in a different time, sport.

Taking shit seriously on the net, on KF, on this specific forum... My friend of excessive melanin, that is just one of the many paths that lead to lolcowdom.

Femcel? Fucking HELL, man, that's a distant corner of the "Random Kiwifarmer insults" Bingo card. Never anticipated to ever get it, thank you!

You are welcome. Though I think I've called you that before when you were posting some misandrist shit while berating you for your lack of Natty posting.

 

[Wormy]

Taking shit seriously on the net, on KF, on this specific forum... My friend of excessive melanin, that is just one of the many paths that lead to lolcowdom.

I swear, you guys need to start sending out manuals on the standards of avoiding lolcowdom, the rules change by the day. Tough to keep up!

Also, you can just call me a nigger. That's the center square on the Bingo card so I'm pretty numb to it.

You are welcome. Though I think I've called you that before when you were posting some misandrist shit while berating you for your lack of Natty posting.

No, you got me confused with someone else there. I treat misandrists the same way I treat legit misogynists; as if I'm speaking to someone who just got a botched lobotomy.