[The Epoch Times, April 12, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Luo Ya and Cheng Jing interviewed and reported) Shanghai’s closure of the city has caused public grievances to boil.neighborhood committeeMember Resignation and Neighborhood Committeecollective resignationnews, they complained that the implementation of the lockdown measures on the front line was under pressure, and they were in a dilemma. Many peoplemental breakdown.Scholars have analyzed that although the CCPtotalitarianruled, but now at least officials are revolting.
Many residents’ committees in Shanghai said it was unbearable mental breakdown
During the anti-epidemic closure of Shanghai, many secondary disasters occurred.And as a government grassroots unitneighborhood committee, responsible for implementing lockdown measures on the front line, organizing nucleic acid testing for the public, and distributing supplies. Sandwiched between the government and the public, the neighborhood committee is exhausted physically and mentally. Recently, it has been reported that several neighborhood committee members have publicly resigned.
Sanlin Town Hancheng Neighborhood Committeecollective resignation:Can not bear
The Shanghai Hancheng Neighborhood Committee issued a parting open letter to residents on the 9th, stating that all the staff had been sealed in the neighborhood committee since March 17, and had given up their families and their own lives for 24 days.
“We are also trying our best to cooperate with the government’s policies. Everyone and all departments want us to understand and cooperate, but no one understands us… There are times when we can’t bear it.” This time, “We are leaving.”
The Epoch Times reporter called the neighborhood committee several times, but no one answered the phone.
The Epoch Times reporter called the neighbor’s Renwen neighborhood committee and asked the neighborhood committee next door to resign. When the residents of the neighborhood had something to do, if they could call them, a staff member said, “That’s right. We have no way to go there. of.”
The reporter asked if they gave up because the pressure was too great. The staff of the Renwen Residential Committee replied: “The pressure is indeed quite large.”
Another housing committee on the same road as the Hancheng Neighborhood Committee also admitted to reporters that the pressure is quite high, “We can support it anyway,” “But we don’t know when we will not be able to do it. At present, there are many It’s a contradiction, so we really can only hold on.”
She disclosed that the problem of bathing in their community has not been resolved. “The superiors asked us to try our best to overcome the difficulties, but they have no real solution. Because many hotels have been requisitioned by the government for isolation. So there is no way to give us such public places as bathing.”
She also mentioned the matter of residents ordering food, “These large packages from the government are too big, we just want to help, but their group purchases are also too large, or some ordinary people are not willing to spend so much money to hoard unnecessary items. So we are also very helpless. After all, we are also small citizens.” She said.
Residents Committee: The above deceives and conceals the people’s endless waiting, which is really chilling
Yesterday (10th), a neighborhood committee near Caiyuqiao subway station in northeast Pudong posted a long Weibo, detailing the community’s experience in fighting the epidemic since March 18th. The neighborhood committee said on Weibo that he finally broke down in the face of endless nucleic acid testing and lockdown policies for all employees.
The article stated that 30 days ago, 7 rounds of nucleic acid have been done for all staff. All the surrounding communities were occupied. Although the nucleic acid of all staff had been passed several times, the community where she was located eventually became positive and broke out. Even the community property and the neighborhood committee were also positive.
The article wrote, “I began to realize that the loopholes in the community are really big. It is bigger and bigger than the upper-level leaders imagined. It is so big that we can’t control it. It is so big that the neighborhood committee and the property are all destroyed…”
However, when I report public opinion to the superiors, there is never any follow-up. “The chaos of group buying in the community and the complaints of the residents are beyond my personal ability… The information of the neighborhood committee is seriously lagging behind. The public opinion of the residents reflected by the neighborhood committee will never be followed.”
She mentioned that a family with two children in her community was sent to a centralized isolation point that was devoid of management and inhuman, which brought her “to the brink of collapse.”
She said: “I’m really chilled. It’s not the lack of prevention and control, or the lack of people’s livelihood, but the repeated deception, the repeated concealment and the endless waiting.”
The netizen’s Weibo account “Light Yellow Willow Dark Perched Crow” said in a thread that it was the most tiring work and the most poisonous scolding. With the so-called lowest treatment in the system, you also have to bear the reputation that the decisions above are correct, and the scriptures below are wrong.
The resignation letter of the Changli Garden community secretary was confirmed: many people collapsed
Earlier, Wu Yingchuan, secretary of Shanghai Pudong Changli Garden Community, also issued a letter of resignation. He revealed that the CDC’s information was lagging behind, and the epidemic prevention arrangements were extremely opaque, and the neighborhood committee could not grasp who was positive and who was in close contact.
He also said that residents asked them about relevant policies and the time of unblocking. “There are too many things that our grassroots need to know the first time, and we don’t know.” In the face of residents whose health is threatened by drug withdrawal, residents who have to go to the hospital for chemotherapy or kidney dialysis, the neighborhood committee helps arrange vehicles, but the answer they get is to wait.
He said that due to the overloaded work and physical exhaustion, several security guards have collapsed, and one person has been infected. “Some lesbians have even broken down emotionally, cried a lot, and made countless phone calls every day. We are unable to bear and answer the demands.”
The resignation letter stated that the order issued by the superior was a death order and must be implemented. And “the people who gave the death orders were people who had never been to the nucleic acid test site, and they might not even know… How many front-line workers and volunteers might be infected, and how many people would have no sleep?”
The Epoch Times reporter called the office of the neighborhood committee and confirmed that the open letter was genuine, but the secretary did not resign and was still at work.
scholar:totalitarianTwo factors prevail, some people in China are resisting
Regarding the resignation of several grass-roots officials in Shanghai, Professor Feng Chongyi, a China expert at the University of Technology Sydney, told The Epoch Times that at least some people in China are now resisting, unlike the totalitarian North Korea, who has no sense of resistance at all. But in China there is a sense of resistance among the people and among the officials, but it’s not big enough right now.
“A neighborhood committee resigned en masse. It’s okay if I quit. If these officials don’t abide by the ‘law of Wushamao’, he can be relieved.”
Feng Chongyi said, “But most officials are reluctant to bear the black gauze cap and privileges, and they still want to stand in that position, so they have no courage to resist; (but what they will face in the future) is not only the issue of dismissal and throwing the black gauze cap, but also the follow-up punishment. It’s the ugly, cruel place of this rule.”
Feng Chongyi analyzed that the totalitarian rule of the CCP has two factors that interact with each other. One is the “banal evil” that Hannah Arendt said. Its officials are governed by the law of Wushamao, “the above instructions, no matter how absurd, inhuman and cruel, must be carried out, and he put his conscience aside”.
The example cited by Arendt is typical. Feng Chongyi said, “It was the fascist soldiers who shot and killed innocent civilians. In the end, in the post-war trial, the same defense was that the soldiers carried out orders. This is the evil of mediocrity.” He said, “Up and down The officials under him, for his safety, for his promotion, for all his good, carry out cruel and absurd orders.”
On the other hand, Feng Chongyi said that the top of the totalitarian regime is at the top, and Xi Jinping wants to maintain his authority, and the number of sacrifices below is not the main consideration.
“The first consideration is to maintain power and maintain the consolidation of the regime, so the slogan ‘whatever it takes’ is often issued. This price includes the lives of ordinary people, including all the positives being stuffed into the cabin, and even the children who were born soon…, this It’s a secondary humanitarian disaster.”
Feng Chongyi said that most people are still mediocre evil, and they still have to keep their black gauze hats. “These people are still carrying out orders, and he will suppress the resistance of those awakened people, and maintain the state of power for a long time.”
Regarding the resignation of the residents’ committee members, Feng Chongyi said that some people are not afraid of death, “people are not afraid of death, but how can they be afraid of death”, and they don’t care about the black hat. Only then can the critical point of the collapse of the regime be reached.
Responsible editor: Li Qiong#