Wuhan’s Hidden Trauma: After the COVID lockdown | Witness
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Wuhan was the first city in the world to emerge from a total COVID lockdown.
Chinese filmmaker Vincent Du drives into Wuhan one day after restrictions are lifted and befriends a journalist who is trying to get back to Beijing.
But Vincent turns the camera on himself as he discovers the city’s residents battling with collective signs of severe depression and trauma in the immediate aftermath.
He wonders if Wuhan - and China - will ever truly come to terms with the psychological damage brought about by total lockdown.
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