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My life in Shanghai’s never-ending zero-Covid lockdown

Apartments in Shanghai, where there is no end in sight to a three-week lockdown as the Chinese government pursues its strict zero-Covid policy
Apartments in Shanghai, where there is no end in sight to a three-week lockdown as the Chinese government pursues its strict zero-Covid policy. Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Somehow after three weeks in quarantine, locked up in my studio in Shanghai, while cutting the only cucumber left from the last pack of governmental supplies for dinner after scrolling over an overwhelming amount of miserable lockdown experiences online then watching them “disappear”, these four words from Steve Jobs popped up in my head: stay hungry, stay foolish.

It feels like an invisible force is shouting those words into my ears, then shouting loud and clear into the sky above 26 million souls in this city; this lone, still, empty, gigantic city that has known everything effervescent in the past 30 years.

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