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The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
When covid-19 spreads, they are often blamed
WHY PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS IN CHINA
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They can claim whatever they want, we in China know our life ourselves, like Xinjiang and Tibet are being portrayed like hell on earth by the western media but in reality ,they are both highly developed, prosperous places in central and south Asia.The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
When covid-19 spreads, they are often blamedwww.economist.com
The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
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‘Homeless’ on the highway
Keeping track: A policeman screening a truck driver at a highway toll gate after the Covid-19 outbreak in Fuxin, Liaoning province. — Reuters
RESTING in the cramped compartment, truck driver Xiao An (not his real name) has been stuck on a highway for the past few days.
He had nowhere to go and is left with just enough food for the next two days. He had earlier transported goods to a city in Jiangsu province after queueing for two days at toll plazas.
Xiao An said there was a surge of trucks at the highway exit because many others have closed as part of the epidemic control measures following a nationwide Covid-19 outbreak.
The complicated process of document verifications, tests and examinations has further stifled traffic flow.
After unloading the goods, Xiao An went for a nucleic acid test and hit the road again.
Truck drivers are not allowed to leave their vehicles throughout the journey in virus-hit areas. Their doors will be sealed with tape when exiting the highway and they must return to the highway after completing their tasks. Certain places have even banned them from winding down the windows.
“It has been 30 hours since my last PCR test but I have not received the result.
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“Without it, I can’t go anywhere, I am stuck here now,” Xiao An said in a video clip he uploaded to a social media platform last week.He explained that a travel pass is needed for them to drive in cities or towns affected by Covid-19.
“Under the standard operating procedure, a company that seeks my service needs to submit my test result taken within 12 or 48 hours depending on local requirements, in order to apply for the pass.
“After obtaining it, the company will deliver it to me and I can go to pick up the goods.
“To exit the highway to deliver the goods, the recipient will have to get the pass,” he added.
Xiao An is one of the many truck drivers who are wandering on the highways throughout China since early March.
They have either been rejected entry, waiting for the next job or their nucleic acid test results, are in the midst of getting the travel pass, among others.
There were also those who did not have a green health code. These drivers have to wait for their code to return to normal, which takes between a few days and two weeks, before they can be on the move again.China uses colours to indicate a person’s health status – green (safe), yellow (entered a medium-risk zone), red (entered a high-risk zone) and green with a star sign indicating that its holder comes from a city with medium- or high-risk zones but has not been to the affected zones.
“The requirements vary according to the province and can be changed at any time.
“Before my journey, I checked with the local authorities who gave me a ‘yes’ but when I arrived a few hours later, it was totally a different scenario,” added Xiao An.
Another driver said he was “rejected” because his PCR test had expired.
“I would have made it if not because of the jam. I can also go to an ‘open city’ but you never know what is going to happen next.
“I’d rather wait here to save fuel,” he added.
These “homeless” drivers have been surviving on simple meals and sleeping in their trucks.
At residential stretches, some local folk took sympathy and sent them food.
Xiao An has appealed to local authorities to gazette a place for truck drivers, so that they need not hang out on highways.
“Most of the rest areas are closed, we have nowhere to buy food or rest,” he said, adding that truck drivers park their trucks on the emergency lane.
On his next step, Xiao An said he would drive 400km to head home and undergo quarantine for 14 days.
“I have asked the local authorities in my hometown if I could go back without the test result, and I am waiting for their reply,” he added.
The restrictions have hampered China’s logistics services and residents in Shanghai have been suffering from a shortage of food since the city was put under lockdown on March 28.
To ease the transport and logistics backlog, the central government has forbidden highways from shutting down without permission and urged local authorities to smoothen the clearance process for trucks.
Logistics services companies have called for more nucleic acid test spots for drivers, especially at highway exits.
Economist Yao Jingyuan said the impact of the recent outbreak would be greater than the Wuhan pandemic in 2020 since this time it involves Shanghai, the financial hub of China, and Guangdong, the country’s richest province.
China has set a gross domestic product growth target of 5.5% for 2022. Yao said, looking at the current situation, this goal might not be achieved.
However, he said the people are the country’s assets and protecting them is its utmost priority.
“With these assets, we can always pick up again,” he added.
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‘Homeless’ on the highway
Chinese truck drivers forced to live in their vehicles with the tightening of Covid-19 prevention and control measures.
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Even the dead dont have funeral homes in China now.The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
When covid-19 spreads, they are often blamed
The pandemic has made life harder for China’s homeless
Chinese government should help the poor dying on its streets than sending military aid to richer Russians.
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The ground reality is COVID hit both socially and economically to its citizens.
Talked to a Chinese Immigrant here in Australia named Karen (Not her real name) and she said the government did not compensate the people during the lockdown which mean they survive on their own saving, put together with the original problem (Migrant + Social Economical issue) the problem for both Homeless and the death would be aggregated
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Lol, how come in this winter time it's so green like summer, make a better lie next time.
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Ask the dead, since your govt is hiding real numbers.
9000 dead everyday-
People have a right to be angry
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Homeless? stop trolling here, start another thread dedicated for covid issue and I will be there, i have many Indian covid videos and pics to share.
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Did he know the video he is quoting is CNN exposing Russia propaganda??
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Same trick
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He has probably one of those chengguan police jobs, hide away the poor and homeless to make china look good, while chinese die off.
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I don't even know if he is Chinese, seems like he is desensitised from everything happening in China.
Either he is right and everything we said did not happened in China or he don't know shit. Or the third one which is he just didn't care, if this is the case, then i would hate to be his neighbor, because he would be the type that watch your house burn down with fire and just sit there and watch and probably drink his tea.
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Most homeless in the US does not have property under their name. The people who they "can" rely on are relatives who are not legally obligated to help them.
