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If you've fired up your WeChat moments in the past 24 hours, you've probably come across this:

Here's the story:

A few days ago during the Pudong lockdown, in one specific compound a large number of people tested positive — like, basically, the whole compound. When the China Disease Control started taking people away to the central quarantine site, the residents of the compound started to speak up and organize themselves, suggesting to the CDC that it was more practical to block off the entire compound and quarantine everyone in it at home, across the board. Working to make this solution happen, the residents all together agreed that they were all okay with having positive tested neighbors doing their quarantine in their homes. They also addressed issues that are often used to argue against home quarantine being effective: They all agreed that they would stop using their aircons to prevent air from circulating; not share bathrooms; not leave their houses; and submit to daily reports on their health situation.

The document above that is now circulating is people expressing that they support the initiative and would also join in on the strategy of home quarantining on the micro level within affected buildings and compounds. It's basically a call to the government to implement a policy of home quarantining and stop the less preferable central quarantine policy.

Furthermore, the document calls for more investment into medical resources. A common official line in the media is the argument that China can't afford to combat a wide-spread Covid pandemic due to limited medical resources in rural China. This suggests the reallocation of resources now being used for centralized quarantines toward that goal. It specifcally argues "not to solve the problem 2022 with solutions of 2020" (i.e. large-scale indiscriminate lockdowns.)

Just yesterday, the head of Shanghai's central quarantine treatment team stated that home quarantine is an option in theory, however the currently laws which come down from a national mandate still require that anyone with a positive test gets sent to central quarantine within 48 hours. An announcement by China's vice president yesterday seems to have ruled out a relaxation of this current policy.