To be fair, in that particular instance they were only welding the back door. They left the front door alone so that people could go out (at their assigned days and times). They got rid of the back door to make it so that community enforcement of these restrictions was possible.

At the level the epidemic reached in some area of China that may have been necessary to slow the flood, no different than rationing during famine.

I have some issues with China (corruption, nepotism, pervasive tracking), but this is not really one of them.

> in that particular instance they were only welding the back door.

It happened more than once.

Uploaded 2022-01-06: Xi’an. Clearly a front door. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/rxddgp/chin...

Uploaded 2022-05-03: Residents locked inside homes with wires and bolts due to Covid-19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpfKZVTSp3I

Uploaded 2022-05-06: Shanghai https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/ujoj33/in_...

Uploaded 2022-11-30: Unidentified city; worker shown welding a back entrance shut. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/z8fpzy/...

remember how in america the police were literally attacking people in the summer of 2020 and some died?

Does this have something to do with China or are you just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks?