China’s Extreme Lockdowns Are Having Deadly Consequences

New videos are circulating on social media purporting to show suicides and animal killings in China amid the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns.

Several videos have gone viral with one showing a couple falling from a building to their deaths in a suspected murder-suicide after the husband’s business went under due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Another video shows Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pandemic workers killing the household pets of infected residents.

CCP authorities began a two-stage lockdown of Shanghai and its 26 million residents on March 28 that was extended on April 5 as COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Many residents have been forbidden to leave their homes and have struggled to get food as mass-tests continue and strict quarantines are harshly enforced.

A video taken in Shanghai shows hundreds of people screaming out their windows at night in protest of lockdown measures. Another video compilation claims to show a number of suicides that were triggered by lockdown measures in the city.

One disturbing video posted to social media shows workers collecting the dead bodies of household pets. Several cities have ordered that pets belonging to COVID-19 patients are to be killed due to fears the animals could spread the virus further.