Never has the winter felt so suffocating for Zou, who counted about 20 deaths among his social circles amid the massive COVID wave that’s gripping China.
Memorial tents, indicating households that have lost family members, are visible on every street in his hometown, in the historic city of Yueyang in southern China’s mountainous Hunan Province with a population of about 20,000.
It’s so many that “it’s scary,” Zou, who only provided his surname for fear of reprisals, told The Epoch Times.
Zou says the sky seems darker than usual, without much sunlight, further heightening a sense of dread in the small town as the outbreak casts a huge shadow. In the past three to four days alone, 100 to 200 people have died from the disease, he said on Jan. 23….