Between leaving and staying: Are Shanghai people overwhelmed?

Last Friday (May 20), a man in Shanghai wounded a neighborhood committee member with a knife because of a "dispute over the issuance of an exit permit."

The comments under this news are all questioning the unclear notification of the case: what caused the dispute?

Why didn't the news report make it clear?

Is it because the people have a need to go out and are blocked, and they are temporarily emotional?

There are more than 3,000 comments in the news media, and the top three comments are, "Can't you bear it anymore?"

In the past few days when Shanghai was promoting "social zero", the comments and articles of "Leaving Shanghai Tide" and "Run (the English homonym of Run in English) to Shanghai" were enthusiastically reflected on social media.

Last Monday and Tuesday (May 16th and 17th), the number of trains departing from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station increased, causing people to rush for tickets and long queues at the station. This is more in line with people's imagination: Shanghai's epidemic prevention chaos is like this Seriously, people have a shattered impression of Shanghai and want to leave.

Whether it was the initial lockdown of Wuhan or today's Shanghai, the specific problems are the same, and individual tragedies continue to unfold.

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After the outbreak of the epidemic in Shanghai, the chaos of epidemic prevention has ignited the dissatisfaction and pressure accumulated by the people in the past.

On the one hand, many members of the public have a basic understanding of the mutated virus. For this virus with a low mortality rate, if even Shanghai does this, "will it do better when it's my turn?" On the one hand, dynamic clearing The impact of zero on the economy is also becoming more pronounced.

People's consumption has turned conservative, and unemployment has risen, a situation that people have endured for more than two years.

At the same time, most regions except China have already experienced a round of post-opening pains, and life has returned to normal.

Public opinion began to debate the epidemic prevention model: "When can life continue? When will the employment and economic situation return to the situation in 2019? If the epidemic continues, will it continue to be like this for ten years?"

Shanghai, which gradually recovered under such circumstances, naturally lost the tragic taste of Wuhan at that time.

Under the chaos of epidemic prevention, there is still a dispute among the people over which one will be cleared first, the virus or the wallet.

Behind the ridicule and questioning is the split of public opinion on the entire epidemic prevention model-this split has also caused the phenomenon of "official positive energy, private people are benefiting"...

For details, please read the 318th issue of "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly (May 23, 2022) "

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