When the Chinese Communist Party locked down Shanghai's 25 million residents during the Zero-COVID campaign in 2021 and 2022, it sent hazmat-suited government workers door to door to enforce compliance. What those workers did to the pets left behind has been captured on home security cameras, uploaded to Weibo, and viewed hundreds of millions of times before the censors could scrub it. In November 2021, a woman identified only as Ms. Fu was sent into quarantine after contact with a COVID patient. Government workers in protective gear entered her home in Shangrao, Jiangxi province and beat her corgi, Chaofen, on the head with a metal rod. Captured on her home security camera, the dog fled into another room after the first blow. The workers followed. When they emerged, one was carrying something in a yellow plastic bag. Ms. Fu said afterward that Chaofen was dead, and that her neighbors' pets suffered the same fate. She later received anonymous threats to remove the video. In April 2022, a Shanghai corgi owner forced onto a quarantine bus with no time to arrange care released his dog outside, hoping it would survive as a stray. The dog chased the bus down the street. Video filmed by a neighboring resident showed a COVID prevention worker in full hazmat gear chase the corgi down and beat it to death with a shovel, three blows, leaving it motionless in the road. Its body was removed in a plastic bag. In Huizhou, a woman sent into isolation was told government workers would disinfect her home. Video she obtained showed two workers beating her Samoyed, Snowball, with sticks. "Snowball is like family to me," she wrote on Weibo. The hashtag "Don't treat other people's pets like animals" was viewed 230 million times before censors intervened. Officials in at least one city issued a formal order authorizing the killing of all pets belonging to COVID-positive residents. China's own National Health Commission had stated there was no evidence of humans catching COVID from pets. The CDC agreed. The science was irrelevant. China has no national animal cruelty laws — a deliberate legislative gap that made every one of these killings perfectly legal — and the government's official response to the Shangrao video was to describe the beating death of a family pet as a "non-hazardous treatment" carried out "without adequate communication."
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Commentary: The government locked you in a quarantine facility, sent workers in hazmat suits into your home, beat your dog to death with a metal rod, put it in a yellow bag, and called it a sanitation procedure. Then when the video went viral, the censors came for the video. China has no animal cruelty laws because the party that owns the legislature decided it didn't need them. That's not an oversight. That's a choice.
📰 https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/china/shanghai-corgi-death-china-covid-intl-hnk/index.html
Additional sources: NBC News — https://www.nbcnews.com | Fortune — https://fortune.com/2021/11/16/china-corgi-killing-covid-outbreak-delta-variant-pet-owners-quarantine-isolation/
📷 Image: The AFP photo by Hector Retamal of hazmat-suited COVID workers in Shanghai neighborhoods is widely published and available through AFP licensing. For free use, search Wikimedia Commons for "Shanghai COVID lockdown hazmat workers 2022" — several press-released images exist under editorial use. Alternatively the Weibo-sourced screenshots of the corgi chasing the quarantine bus have been republished by CNN and NBC and are in wide editorial circulation.
⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from CNN, NBC News, Fortune/Bloomberg, and NationalWorld reporting on documented video evidence.
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