Residents in the Shanghai apartment compound were angry after being told to give up their homes to house people with COVID.
Shanghai's residents have been asked to put up with a lot. Their lockdown is characterised by uncertainty and severity.
Severity, because this is unlike lockdowns in the rest of the world – most people cannot leave their homes and must rely on the government to deliver scarce food supplies. That will rattle authorities – not just that people were determined to resist the police, but that the images spread so quickly and widely on social media.
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