President Xi Jinping’s punishing "COVID zero" policy has angered Chinese citizens by invading the one place they’ve retained some small bit of privacy: their homes.
A video of "Big White” hazmat pandemic enforcers dousing disinfectant over an apartment in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou — even emptying the refrigerator for sterilization — sparked outrage on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. The clip was shared 50,000 times and clocked 10 million views before being censored.
"Home is the last frontier for the Chinese,” a blogger who goes by the name West Slope wrote afterward, in an essay viewed 100,000 times on messaging app WeChat. "Videos of unruly household invasions break the last psychological line of defense for many.”