Thread by @StephenMcDonell

Workers have broken out of #Apple’s largest assembly site, escaping the Zero #Covid lockdown at Foxconn in #Zhengzhou. After sneaking out, they’re walking to home towns more than 100 kilometres away to beat the Covid app measures designed to control people and stop this. #China

Workers have broken out of #Apple’s largest assembly site, escaping the Zero #Covid lockdown at Foxconn in #Zhengzhou. After sneaking out, they’re walking to home towns more than 100 kilometres away to beat the Covid app measures designed to control people and stop this. #China

Meanwhile nationalists in #China have convinced themselves that their country has a monopoly on wisdom re the correct handling of #Covid. They’re often going on about “the West” and its opening up but actually its the whole world apart from China which has abandoned Zero Covid

https://twitter.com/yanzhonghuang/status/1586537964267798530

So they may think Zero #Covid is going great but here are more of the Foxconn workers who’ve broken out of Apple’s largest assembly site in #Zhengzhou to escape a Zero #Covid lockdown and walk to hometowns some more than 100 kilometres away to beat #China’s phone app restrictions

Looks like some of the escaped Foxconn employees have been detained while trying to get home and straight away caught a blast of some sort of anti-#Covid spray. #China’s Zero-Covid measures are putting massive pressure on the economy, on livelihoods, on social stability.

https://twitter.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1586728596798070784

Some of the escaping Foxconn workers have now made it back to their home towns after being given lifts part of the way by passing cars. #China #Covid

Some truck drivers who gave Foxconn workers (who’d busted out) a ride have now themselves been put in compulsory quarantine. Workers who’ve made it to their home towns are reporting that they’re doing a week’s quarantine in schools and other temporary #Covid isolation centres.

The break out at @Apple’s largest assembly line (#Foxconn also produces other products) followed what workers felt was misleading information from bosses about #Covid cases inside the massive factory complex. One worker told us she was denied leave so she fled with her workmates.

Foxconn workers, who live in company dormitories, told us they left in a hurry & still have personal belongings in these dormitories. They’re not sure what the future holds for them in terms of returning to work at the factory making #Apple and other products. #China Zero #Covid.

Escaping #Foxconn workers have been posting some amazing footage. Here’s a group of them hitching a ride home on the back of a truck. Some truck drivers helping them out have reportedly been put into quarantine. #ZeroCovid #China

Two big factors which led to the mass exodus of workers from #Foxconn: rumours going crazy about how they were going to be treated under #Covid management and incredible widespread ignorance about the #Coronavirus as a disease.

One rumour running around was that the army was going to impose a giant "living with #Covid" experiment in that part of #Zhengzhou to see how many of them would die as a kind of test case to see if #China should open up if the carnage was not too bad.

Rather than calmly explaining that, all over the world, those who've been vaccinated are mostly only spending a few days at home with the coronavirus, the government here has warned of dire consequences and told people how lucky they are to be protected by the Party's #ZeroCovid.

In response to the outcry regarding the #Foxconn mass breakout, the company is now saying that workers will be permitted to leave if they can take one of the official buses being organised with local governments to take people directly to quarantine facilities elsewhere.

And in other Zero #Covid related news, #Shanghai Disneyland was locked down with nobody allowed to leave until they get a clear PCR test result. This was reportedly triggered by a visit from one person. #China