Covid-19: ‘Don’t open the window and don’t sing,’ as a drone orders Shanghai residents to stop challenging confinement

A scene that resembles a dystopian movie. And yet we are well into 2022. In a video published on Weibo, the No. 1 social network in China, a drone calls out from their balcony to residents of a district of Shanghai to protest against incarceration. In the video, we hear a robotic voice coming from a small flying object giving instructions. According to Alice Su, China correspondent for the English newspaper the economist, the drone would say the following words: “Please respect the Covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Don’t open the window and don’t sing as it may infect others.”

Since the start of the containment, the Chinese state has deployed robots to enforce health measures. on someone else videowe see a robot dog equipped with a loudspeaker roaming the streets repeating the instructions.

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