on chinese social media. it shows a worker in a hazmat suit brutally killing a pet corgi because local officials worried that it might have carried the virus. the owner was in government quarantine. all of this as a result of china s zero covid policy, a directive from the top. president xi jinping on friday praising china s zero covid approach. state media echoing a glowing narrative showing an order limo billization in shanghai with abundant food supply and rapid construction of more than 100 makeshift hospitals with capacity to treat more than 160,000 people infected. but patients taken to those government quarantine centers sharing a very different reality online, posting videos of unsanitary conditions and people using isolation facilities still under construction. some seen frangtically running at distribution sites scrambling for food and blankets. the uncertainty leaving this man broken, doing the unthinkable,