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If you were to walk me down the streets of Shanghai right now, what would it be like?

It sounds like you have friends there. I have quite a few friends there, I think.

Date Kang reports on China for the Associated Press. I think if you walk down the streets of Shanghai,

it would be very quiet. For most of the condens, some people from Shanghai kind of had this attitude of,

oh, look at the rest of China, they have such crude COVID controls, but we don't have to deal with

that kind of stuff. Not anymore, because for the last month, Shanghai has been in varying degrees

of coronavirus lockdown as COVID surged. The authorities say those lockdowns are getting lifted

now, but even so. In theory, the Shanghai government might let you out in your compound,

or you might even be allowed out on the streets and go shopping or out for walks in kind of a limited

fashion. But in practice, people I talked to in that last category who in theory are supposed

to be able to go out aren't really being allowed to go out. What happens when they try?

Yeah, their local neighborhood committees are often paranoid. Their number one priority is keep

COVID cases to zero. And the people who are testing positive, they get sent to citywide quarantine

centers to wait the virus out. We talked to a few of these people in these kind of mass quarantine

centers and the situation sounded kind of grim for them. How do the authorities even know you

tested positive? Well, so every day Shanghai, all Shanghai residents are being ordered to

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