That is it. I have lost faith in the general mode of handling COVID in China. Maybe RNA tests once a day isn't enough. Maybe immediately restricting privileges(such as general shopping or drinking from a cafe) for having been in the same region as someone who was a positive individual(and said regions can be as big as, say, the entire upper east side) isn't enough, now we are doing this.
The fire—likely sparked by a discarded cigarette—started on the eighth floor of the Asch Building, 23–29 Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park. That floor and the two floors above were occupied by the Triangle Waist Company, a manufacturer of women’s shirtwaists (blouses) that employed approximately 500 people. The flames, fed by copious cotton and paper waste, quickly spread upward to the top two floors of the building. Fire truck ladders were only able to reach six stories, and the building’s overloaded fire escape collapsed. Many workers, trapped by doors that had been locked to prevent theft, leapt from windows to their deaths.Though the owners of the factory were indicted later that month on charges of manslaughter, they were acquitted in December 1911; the owners ultimately profited from inflated insurance claims that they submitted after the tragedy. However, the uproar generated by the disaster led to the creation of the Factory Investigating Commission by the New York state legislature in June. Over the following year and a half, members of the commission visited factories, interviewed workers, and held public hearings. The commission’s findings ultimately led to the passage of more than 30 health and safety laws, including factory fire codes and child labour restrictions, and helped shape future labour laws across the country.
What happened was that in 1 building in Xinjiang, fire broke out in one of the higher levels. However, those that wanted to evacuate CANNOT find themselves exiting the building as the community the building was in was at the centre of one of said regions of high risks of infection, so the entire building was in internal lockdown. Residents inside cannot get out without approval and nobody can get in without approval.
At the time of the fire, nobody in charge of the community approved of exiting the building, as the region was still considered "high-risk" (The criteria of "high" risk would be like more than 1 Covid-infected indivduals were found there in the last 24 hour or something). The manager of the building told the residents to NOT take the elevator. Obviously, the fire trucks can't get there so quickly and immediately, so 10 people died, some burned to death, others jumped down from more than ten stories high as the stairs are either crowded or blocked, or both.
Isn't it crazy that after 110 years of progression, humanity has retreated to 110 years ago? No, no, I can't even give a source on it, because the moderation on verifiable websites would delete the videos and blogs on this matter, leaving that as a fact that even if I link anything here, by the time a second person posts, it is likely a dead domain by that point.
A woman was arrested for spreading exaggerated versions of this story, overestimating the number of people died from this fire. What is laughably funny is that after the event, all that worked at the community, the district, went out with their sleeves intact.
What is even more laughable, is that the second day(which is today) the news existed among the populace, another news headline was posted.
Number of COVID-positive individuals in Urumqi drops to zero
Urumqi is the city in which the disaster prescribed above took place. I cannot even begin to imagine what would come next for other cities(including mine) if they thought this was "efficient".
