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CDC, Health Cloud, and healthcare providers are all on their own, it's very confusing, and the CDC has gone up the chain of command many times, but no one listens

A 20-minute recording captures the conversation between a couple in Shanghai and the pandemic control officers who arrived at their door, as well as their breakdown. The couple insists they are negative and have the report to prove it, but the officers insist they were notified that the couple tested positive. They refuse to look at the report and state they are only following orders from their superiors.

In Shanghai, a medical worker who was barricaded in a small neighborhood hoping to return to work has had a recorded conversation with a neighborhood committee cadre circulated on the Internet. In the conversation, the neighborhood committee cadre said that the community was understaffed and that she was on the verge of collapse.

It's not that the community committee is failing to act, but that higher authorities refuse to intervene.

33 Derivative Versions of "Voices of April"

“Tell the next generation: never let this happen again.”

During the Shanghai lockdown, the Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Singers created a song dedicated to ordinary heroes amidst the pandemic.

Shanghai residents collectively sang Lo Ta-yu’s Tomorrow Will Be Better on the street during the lockdown; police did not directly intervene.

Although the lyrics conclude by stating that the song criticizes Russia and the U.S., the content is more directed at condemning Shanghai's lockdown policies.

Who is directing this play, in this human world of April?

A Shanghai netizen turned all their used antigen test kits into wings and wore them.

A song created by netizens after Shanghai’s “reopening,” rejecting the victory celebrations.

A Hong Kong netizen adapted the song Shanghai Beach into a satirical piece mocking the lockdown in Shanghai.

"The power of music, the sound of silence."

“Let's all go snatch veggies—if you don't snatch today, there'll be none left. Come tomorrow and it's too expensive. We'll all be hungry together!”

“When freedom and thought are shackled by power, when green lanes are sealed and become dead ends.”

“Have you seen the original of this painting? They’re beating someone—like they’re dancing.”

“Why is it that they made the mistake, but I’m the one who suffers?”

“I live just to do PCR tests, and even if I die—I’ll still do PCR tests.”