Feb. 23, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| Gaochian District of Shuzhencheng City, Hebei Province is one of the hotspots of the latest COVID-19 resurgence in China. | |
| The district of roughly 800,000 people has been under strict lockdown since early January. | |
| Mr. | |
| Lee, a resident of the Heidong Oasis residential community in the district, recently spoke to the Epoch Times. | |
| He revealed that after being stuck indoors for over 40 days, thousands of residents protested against the lockdown on February 7th and clashed with local government workers. | |
| Many people joined the quarrel. | |
| The conflict and clash lasted from around 1pm to 6pm. | |
| This kind of life is really unbearable. | |
| Some elderly people, men and women, literally cried when begging the government workers. | |
| We're just one step away from kneeling down. | |
| Someone said, on the second day of the lockdown, we were told that we couldn't go downstairs anymore. | |
| I heard that someone broke this rule and took a walk inside the complex. | |
| A police car came and the person refused to go back home. | |
| The police then took him away. | |
| On January the 27th or 28th, the rule was further enforced. | |
| All building entrances were sealed with paper strips. | |
| The supermarkets were also sealed. | |
| The price of food is very expensive now. | |
| In addition, the delivery service will reject you if you only order 1 or 2 pounds of vegetables. | |
| You have to order more than 10 pounds to arrange the delivery service. | |
| However, the prices are so high. | |
| Twice as high as prices during regular time. | |
| There are 15 buildings in our complex with a total of about 10,000 residents. | |
| We can't go to work. | |
| And soon it'll be two months without salaries. | |
| We all need to support our families. | |
| There are home mortgages and car loans. | |
| It's really tough. | |
| The last day I was at work was January the 5th. | |
| The lockdown was enacted shortly after I returned home on the evening of January the 5th. | |
| I've been staying at home ever since. | |
| We are indeed depressed. | |
| Under lockdown for such a long time, it's very depressing. | |
| We have taken nucleic acid tests 13 times now. | |
| There are no confirmed cases in our complex at all. | |
| It's such a waste of money to take the tests. | |
| After doing nucleic acid testing so many times, my throat has been stabbed to the point of having inflammation. | |
| The key issue is that you have to live and you can't make money. | |
| Some people have family to support and mortgages and car loans to pay. | |
| People are going crazy. | |
| I just heard that some people in our community have already lost their jobs due to the lockdown, crying at home. | |
| Meanwhile, the nearby Nagong City, another hotspot, was under the same pandemic control measures. | |
| Mr. | |
| Wang and Nagong told the Epoch Times that on February 10th, two days before the Chinese New Year, a 60-year-old man hanged himself. | |
| The specific circumstances were not disclosed by authorities. | |
| The locals speculated that he could not bear life in isolation any longer and chose to end his life. | |
| Wang said, I think I'm about to get depressed. | |
| People are suffocating and going crazy. | |
| No one will tell us when we can be released from lockdown. |
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