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After the same thing happened in Shangrao and Huizhou, another pet dog was now killed by a healthcare worker in Shanghai.
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On the evening of April 6, photos and a video of a corgi dog being beaten to death by a Shanghai healthcare worker flooded Chinese social media after the WeChat account ‘corgi sh’ posted about the incident.
The post included screenshots of comments provided by the person who allegedly recorded the incident with their phone. The person, nicknamed ‘Isabella,’ confirmed that the incident happened in Pudong District in Shanghai. The dog’s owner had allegedly been taken away for quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19, after which the pet dog was killed by an anti-epidemic worker with a stick in the middle of the street at Caoluzhen.

In November of 2021, there was major outrage after a video went viral of a pet dog getting killed by anti-epidemic workers in Shangrao while the dog owner was undergoing quarantine at a nearby hotel. In March of 2022, a very similar incident happened again in Huizhou, when a Samoyed dog was beaten to death by anti-epidemic workers while its owners were quarantined elsewhere in Huizhou. Both incidents were caught on home security cameras.
The latest Shanghai dog killing incident did not happen inside the home, but on the streets of Pudong. “This is ruthless and cruel,” some Weibo commenters said.
The corgi dog was out on the street after its owners were taken away to a designated isolation site. The dog’s owner responded in a community WeChat group that they had let their dog out on the street for the community to take care of it since they feared the dog would starve to death if they would just leave it behind inside their home without enough food to eat.
Once outside, the woman’s husband had wanted to bring the dog back inside their home, supposedly thinking it would be safer inside, but they were not allowed to bring the dog back inside and had to leave the dog behind.
Other members in the WeChat group stated that the neighborhood committee had allegedly said that the dog owners no longer wanted their dog, and others said that no dogs were allowed to roam freely within the community premises.
Shanghai’s Pudong has been in lockdown since March 28. The lockdowns in the city have been extended due to the rising Covid-19 numbers, and many people throughout the city are struggling to get groceries and supplies delivered, including vegetables, medicine, and pet food. Besides complaints about food deliveries and availability of medicine, there has also been online worry and anger over health services being inadequate and people needing urgent care not getting the help they need.
There have also been many complaints about the quarantine locations being unhygienic, overcrowded, and mismanaged. Parents have been worried to be separated from their children if they test positive for Covid; news about young children being separated from their parents at Jinshan District in Shanghai also sparked anger last week. At one location in Shanghai, fights broke out over food, water, and other supplies on Monday.

In the community WeChat group, the dog’s owner said: “We hoped to let him outside and be like a stray dog. We didn’t want him to starve to death. As long as he could live it would be ok. We never expected that he would be beaten to death the moment we had left.”
The predicament the dog owners faced is one that many residents who are being taken away for quarantine are facing. Many not just worry about what will happen to their pets after they leave, but also worry about their younger and older family members. Earlier this month, one person called out for help on Weibo after a 10-year-old girl was left by herself at home after her parents had gone off to an isolation site. Another person wrote for help on Tuesday about a 98-year-old grandmother being all alone in the apartment with nobody to take care of her.
For many people, the situations they face in light of isolation are scarier than the virus itself. Many on social media have therefore commented that they are not necessarily afraid of getting Covid, but more afraid of being taken away for quarantine after testing positive.
“Didn’t they say early on that pets can’t spread the virus?” one Weibo commenter wondered. A poster showing a cat saying “I can’t transmit covid19, please don’t abandon or hurt me” has been circulating on social media for months, issued by Chinese state media outlet People’s Daily. The Shanghai Center for Disease Prevention and Control previously stated it is unlikely for small pets to get Covid19, and that they therefore should not need to be screened.
I can’t transmit covid19, please don’t abandon or hurt me
“They were still promoting how you could isolate together with your pet last year – what changed?” one person asked.
By Wednesday night, local time, a video of the Shanghai dog killing incident had received over 224,000 likes, 77,000 shares and nearly 20,000 comments on Weibo.
“I’m so furious it’s making me cry,” some people in the comment section write: “This is Shanghai? What on earth are they doing?!”
Some residents made these in response to the incident 👇 pic.twitter.com/WiJuTH1DK1
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In line with a new ‘hard isolation’ measure, the entrances of some Shanghai residential buildings were fenced up.
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While some Shanghai households have already endured weeks of isolation, a new word was added to their epidemic vocabulary today: ‘hard isolation’ or ‘strong quarantine’ (yìng gélí 硬隔离)
The word popped up on Chinese social media on April 23rd after some Shanghai netizens posted photos of fences being set up around their community building to keep residents from walking out.
“New word: hard isolation. Shanghai is rotten to the core,” one commenter wrote.


The word soon turned into a hashtag page where people started commenting on the issue of fences being placed around residential buildings, voicing concerns on what a fence around buildings would mean for fire safety, especially after online rumors suggested that there had been a fire at one community in Pudong on Saturday night.


An official document regarding the ‘hard isolation’ measure was also shared online on Saturday. It is dated April 23, 2022, and its source is the Pudong New Area Office for Epidemic Control.

The document states that in line with the guidelines for the city’s epidemic prevention and control, the division between areas or zones that are in certain risk categories should be ‘optimized,’ with those in the high-risk category requiring a ‘hard isolation.’ Security guards should also be on duty 24 hours a day at the entrance of the buildings.

Earlier this month, Shanghai adopted “3-level control measures” after its initial phased lockdown. It means that local areas will be classified as “locked-down,” “controlled” or “precautionary,” based on their Covid19 risk.


“Could we also put fences around the homes of Shanghai leaders?”, one person suggested, while others posted images from the Walking Dead to mock the situation.

In the hope of Shanghai soon tackling the Covid situation, not everybody disagreed with the decision to fence some buildings or communities in the Pudong area: “I don’t disagree with it, as long as there is always someone there to open the fence in case of fire,” one person stated.
Although having a fence around their building is currently not a reality for most in Shanghai, the online photos of some communities seeing their buildings being fenced up is a reason to worry for some: “It’s been 40 days, and now they start hard isolation? This actually scares me. Before we know it, it’s June.”

One Weibo user asked: “Why is it possible to implement this hard isolation now? Was this created by the same persons who also implemented the rule to separate children from parents at isolation sites?”
“I truly can’t imagine why some people thought this is a good idea,” others wrote.
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“The best way to make videos go viral is by censoring them.”
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On April 23, a day after the video ‘Voices of April’ briefly took over social media before it was censored, the trending topic of the day is a hashtag related to new Covid cases reported in Shanghai.
Shanghai reported higher Covid-19 cases and deaths on Friday than the five days prior, which showed a daily decline in new cases. Shanghai reported a total of 23,370 new cases (including 20,634 asymptomatic ones), the municipal health commission said Saturday. A related hashtag by Xinhua News received over 910 million views on Weibo on Saturday (#上海新增本土确诊2736例无症状20634例#).
Although the hashtag was initiated by state media to inform about the Shanghai Covid situation, netizens started using it to criticize Shanghai’s handling of the crisis, with more commenters questioning China’s zero-Covid strategy. Similarly, other state media-initiated hashtag places also became online spaces where Weibo users vented their frustrations earlier this month.
Besides the ongoing online criticism and vocal disagreement with China’s Covid handling and policies, there are also many who express shock at the recent crackdown of any form of protest or criticism regarding the situation in Shanghai.
“‘Voices of April’ has been shutdown all over the internet, I’m simply dumbfounded,” one person said about the popular video that contained real recordings of events that happened during the city’s lockdown.
“If you still can find the video anywhere, forward it,” another person writes.
Besides Voices of April (四月之声), there have also been other videos over the past week that are meant to expose the mishandling of the Covid situation in Shanghai.
One of them is titled Farewell, Language (再见语言), another one is Shanghai Late Spring (上海晚春).
Farewell, Language (再见语言) is a 42-second sound art video by artist Yang Xiao (杨潇), who used over 600 commonly used propaganda phrases from Chinese official channels and randomly broadcasted the audio in the community where he lives.

The anti-epidemic workers just continue their work and do not seem to notice anything out of the ordinary at all. The video shows how this kind of language has been so normalized that for most, it has just become background noise in their everyday life – without even noticing nor critically assessing its meaning or logic anymore.
The Shanghai Late Spring (上海晚春) video is a compilation of video footage from the Shanghai lockdown, showing people struggling to get food, violent altercations between anti-epidemic workers and residents, people living in deplorable conditions in quarantine centers, and more (link to video).
The video uses the song Cheer Up London by Slaves, its chorus being:
“You’re dead, already, dead, dead, already-ready
Dead, already, dead, dead, already-ready
Dead, already, dead, dead, already-ready
Dead, already, dead.”
One Weibo commenter responded to the video in English, using a text from Les Misérables: “Do you hear the people sing / Singing the song of angry men / It is the music of a people / Who will not be slaves again!” The phrase “do you hear the people sing” was also used by other social media users to address the situation in Shanghai and the censorship of related topics.
“The best way to make videos go viral is by censoring them,” one commenter replied.
Read our previous article about ‘Voices of April’ here.
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