The videos – which purported to show COVID-positive patients and their close contacts tussling with the workers – come as the city tightens some aspects of the lockdown despite a drop-off in new cases. People living in the same building of confirmed cases now also risk being transported to designated quarantine facilities, according to residents and widely circulated social media posts.
Social media posts have been removed that questioned the legality of forcibly removing people from their homes and taking them to quarantine facilities, or seizing their keys to allow health workers to disinfect apartments. Another unverified video posted on WeChat shows a “big white” using a loudspeaker to warn residents to stay home, saying if one person living in a building tests positive, everybody living in the same building will be considered close contacts and sent to central quarantine.Other videos showing hazmat-suited workers banging on the door of an apartment and taking the occupants to quarantine have been deleted.
This was us. When police were trying to stop protestors, for protesting out in public while we were meant be in lockdown 23 hours a day.
Remember Dan’s Melbourne? Two 80 year old women sitting on a park bench arrested?