Baby separate isolation in Shanghai, China

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Why did Shanghai commit public anger for isolating babies alone?

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Crises don't go orderly. Chaos is something one can expect in such circumstances.

It's worrying that so many infants got pneumonia. Up to recently, most children were asymptomatic. A new strain?

Back in Communist times, children were always separated from their parents in hospitals (in Poland).
Now it has changed, small children are usually accompanied by a parent in a hospital.
I don't know the rules in China.

Strange indeed.
So why would these babies were taken? Such crowd makes no sense for "quarantine".

To be frank. I have no idea. I can't figure it out.
However, "contact with patients" has always been quarantined in China.China's policy is to try to "zero out" infections.

That's why I don't think the events in Xinjiang are worth mentioning. Considering the CCP's long-standing preferential treatment of ethnic minorities, their conditions are actually higher than the national average.
More crazier things are happening elsewhere.

I've also read Western reports on it:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sha ... 022-04-02/
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chi ... 022-04-03/
So, apparently Shanghaians are trying to gain a right to... quarantine their mild cases at home, without splitting covid-positive families apart.
Oh, man. Hard to imagine for me not to have such a right.

This is a sensitive topic in China.
The CCP has formulated many policies for "dynamic clearance" over the past two years. This has cost the economy, and many people, a huge price.Because the disaster caused by "fighting the epidemic" has surpassed the epidemic itself.
Inter-provincial movement involving affected areas is very difficult. Individual businesses are dying. Residents who are locked down can only rely on savings without any subsidies.

When now is the era of Omikron, a virus with low lethality and high contagion.
Many have questioned whether all this is even necessary, and this is known as "coexistence faction". But others don't want all our sacrifices over the past two years to be in vain. This is called the "anti-epidemic faction".

The anti-epidemic faction will declare how foreign countries are like hell under the epidemic, and how terrifying the sequelae are.
I know this is not real. But we still have debates about the safety of the elderly without lockdown - respect for the elderly is an important part of Chinese culture.

"Self-isolation of mild symptoms" will undoubtedly be regarded as a "coexistence faction" proposition.
This incident may be the trigger for China to switch to a more open epidemic policy(Then North Korea will be the last country to stick to the blockade). Or, nothing changes and then the economy will go into a serious crisis.
That's why I want to translate this news.

What are vaccination rates in China and in Shanghai in particular?
After full vaccination and boosters, even the elderly have mild symptoms. My in-laws recently had it, quite mild despite their advanced age and poor health.

https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2022/03-05/9693377.shtml

Here, medical staff and the elderly were the two groups that got vaccinated first.

Shanghai itself is a fairly young city, and I believe the virus "by itself" will not cause too many deaths in Shanghai. (But according to some current outflows, the disaster caused by the blockade is not optimistic)
The real problem in Shanghai is that it blatantly violates the central policy and still allows Shanghai residents to move out. This has caused lockdowns in many other regions.
Some people therefore believe that the leadership in Shanghai is kidnapping the central government for "coexistence".

I see - there are political tensions between Shanghai and the central government and differences over lockdown policies make them worse.
Do I understand it correctly?

There is real evidence that Shanghai violated the central policy.
Shanghai kidnapping the central government for "coexistence" is a theory.

This is an event China has not seen in two years during the epidemic.

My theory is that Shanghai cares more for economy than the central government does - and that having a lot of contact with foreigners, Shanghaians are aware of other countries easing lockdowns and learning to live with covid (with help of vaccines) by now.