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Shanghai screaming: China has gone Covid-crazy

19 April 2022

4:00 AM

19 April 2022

4:00 AM

In Shanghai, the night air is full of screams. Locked in skyscrapers since March by Covid health orders, residents have taken to opening their windows and howling at the darkness in terror and starvation. There is no escape from absolute State rule in China. Government drones navigate the horror, using loudspeakers to warn, ‘Please comply with Covid rules.

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