https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61209761The chinese have gained some new tricks
after the original approach of "welding doors shut so residents couldn't escape", China has literally unrolled its new method of sealing residents in Shanghai inside their building with metal fencing that's being erected in front of doorways throughout the city overnight.
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The BBC has not been able to verify these images but has spoken to a foreign national living in Shanghai who said green fencing appeared in his own residential complex three days ago.
The resident, who asked not to be identified, said that the main gate to his compound was chained up three weeks ago after he believes one of his neighbours tested positive for the virus.
But on Thursday he said workers installed a new barrier without any warning.
"There is a long corridor in our compound, and within the long corridor they put up another green fence three days ago," he described on the phone. "No one told us the reason it was installed."
"No one can get out," he said. "I feel helpless. You don't know when the lockdown is going to end."
"If your area gets fenced off, what if a fire breaks out? I don't think anyone in their right mind can seal people's homes," he said.
While some city officials have been installing fences, others have been busy trying to block a popular video highlighting the impact of the city's lockdown on its residents.
The six-minute montage features unverified audio clips of the local population criticising inadequate food supplies and complaining about medical conditions.
"We haven't eaten for days now," one person can be heard pleading in the video.
Now even if the residents starve to death or die of medical emergencies that go untreated, their property will be preserved and intact. Except in case of fires, but in that case the property was lost anyway so the chinese lives lost are irrelevant. No need for the authorities to damage their buildings to seal people inside anymore, when they can use temporary removeable fencing. Put up the fences, take them down later, count the dead, collect whatever is left behind.